COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A bomb threat targeting Ohio State University was e-mailed to the FBI Tuesday morning, prompting the school to evacuate four academic buildings, including the main library. An initial search turned up nothing out of the ordinary, officials said.
The threat was in a message received Tuesday at FBI headquarters in Washington, said Paul Bresson, an agency spokesman based there. Campus police said they were alerted at 8:19 a.m. Tuesday that the threats involved the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library and three laboratory buildings.
“This is still in our assessment a threat, and there have been no suspicious package or devices found at this time,” university Police Chief Paul Denton said at a news conference.
Authorities did not identify the source of the bomb threats at Ohio State, one of the nation’s largest universities, with more than 56,000 students at its main Columbus campus. The FBI’s Bresson declined to provide information about where the e-mail appeared to come from or whether the bureau believed the threat was real.
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