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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M University has issued a lockdown on its main campus, warnings students of a suspected gunman on campus. University spokesman Lane Stephenson says a campus bus driver was on his route around 4 p.m. Thursday when he reported seeing an individual carrying a weapon, possibly a rifle, near the student union. The university's Web site says there is a "Code Maroon." It says students should remain indoors while police search the buildings.

LAKEHURST — The Lakehurst section of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is on lockdown this morning, base officials said. The lockdown went into effect at about 9:15 a.m., Senior Airman David Carbajal said. The lockdown means no one is allowed to leave or enter the military base. link: http://www.app.com/article/20100621/NEWS/100621019/Lakehurst-military-base-on-lockdown

The Lakehurst section of Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst is on lockdown this morning, base officials said. The lockdown went into effect at about 9:15 a.m., Senior Airman David Carbajal said. The lockdown means no one is allowed to leave or enter the military base. Local police have cars and barricades blocking off Route 571 west of of Route 70. The lockdown was briefly applied to the Dix and McGuire sections of the 40,000-acre base, but is now in effect only at Lakehurst, Carbajal said shortly before 11 a.m. The New Jersey State Police has sent resources to assist with...

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Panhandle, TX - Friday 01/15/2010 -- The Carson County Sheriff's Department says Pantex is on lockdown. They wouldn't release anymore information except that they have a number of sheriff's officers at the nuclear facility, and they are investigating. NewsChannel 10 will keep you updated as information becomes available.

Shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, a male with what appeared to be a handgun was reported near the vicinity of Dod Hall dormitory. Princeton University's Department of Public of Safety and Princeton Borough and Township police are investigating. Stay indoors until further instructions. Check the Princeton home page at www.princeton.edu for updates. Campus community members can check their e-mail as well.

Millions held in hedge funds lockdown By James Mackintosh Published: October 1 2008 23:43 | Last updated: October 1 2008 23:43 An increasing number of hedge funds are telling customers they cannot have their money back as rising withdrawals and exposure to Lehman Brothers hit the industry. The inability to access money has already had a knock-on effect: Absolute Return Partners’ Millennium Wave, a small fund of hedge funds, has had to tell its customers they cannot have their money back until it can retrieve it from the funds in which it invests. Luqman Arnold’s Olivant is also struggling to...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A high school was locked down Thursday amid unconfirmed reports that two masked men were seen entering the building. Officers from various law enforcement agencies could be seen outside Boulder High School, and the entrances to the parking lot and the building were blocked off. Boulder Police spokeswoman Julie Brooks confirmed that the school was locked down and that authorities were on the scene, but she released no further details. She would not confirm a report by KOA Radio that a school staff member had seen masked men entering the building.

Sheriff's deputies are searching for the man who killed a deputy, his canine partner and shot another deputy following a traffic stop. Deputy Matthew Williams and his canine partner Dioji were killed. Williams has been with the department for 12 years. Deputy Doug Speirs was hit in the leg and is expected to be fine. He has been released from the hospital. It all started just after noon, when a deputy stopped the suspect for speeding. The suspect, described as a dark-skinned man with dreadlocks, then reportedly gave the deputy a fake identification. He then asked if he was going...

Bum wrap School mistakes huge burrito for weapon, goes into lockdown Updated: 7:43 p.m. ET April 29, 2005 CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito. Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High. The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapeños and wrapped inside tin foil and a...

Lawmaker Puzzled by Obscenity in Letter By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 19, 10:23 PM ET WASHINGTON - Nobody expects to get a letter from a member of Congress that ends with an expletive. But that's what happened when Rep. Jo Ann Emerson , R-Mo., recently corresponded with a resident of her southeast Missouri district. The letter ended with a profane, seven-letter insult beginning with the letter a — "i think you're an. ..." Emerson says she can't explain how the offensive language made it into the letter, which otherwise reads like a typical response to a citizen's...

POLICE are locking down parts of Melbourne as part of Commonwealth Games security preparations, with a week still to go before the opening ceremony. Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon said security for the Games was now in full swing, with venues locked down following security sweeps in preparation for the opening next Wednesday. Police will evaluate security at the MCG later this week when they begin using airport-style screening to check spectators entering two dress rehearsals for the Games opening ceremony. In the largest security operation ever seen in Australia, more than 2500 military personnel will join Victoria's 13,000...

ROSEBURG, Ore. -- A gunman at Roseburg High School wounded one person early Thursday, sending the campus into a lockdown, Roseburg Police and school administrators said. The victim, described only as a male student, was being treated at a local hospital, according to Sgt. Aaron Dunbar with the Roseburn Police Department. The extent of his injuries was not immediately known. The shooting happened just before 8 a.m., near the courtyard on the south side of the school, Dunbar said. A short time later, police tracked down and cornered the gunman, who police believe was also a male student. "There was...

CASTAIC, Calif. - Most of Los Angeles County's jail system was on lockdown Monday after fighting broke out between blacks and Hispanics at two jails over the weekend. One inmate died in the fighting, and more than 100 others were injured. The lockdown was intended to reduce tensions, and it wasn't clear how long it would remain in effect, said Lt. Robert Craton, a watch commander at the North County Correctional Facility. "We are making every attempt to get back to normal," he said. Black and Hispanic inmates at the North County Correctional Facility were segregated Saturday after the fighting...

AL ASAD, Iraq (Oct. 18, 2005) -- Discipline can come in many forms for Marines in a combat area. For the Detention Company Marines and Sailors from 5th Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, discipline means putting aside personal feelings to safeguard and house detainees who could have recently killed or injured fellow service members. The Detention Co. serves as a lock and key holder for detainees at a remote detention facility at Al Asad, Iraq. Many of the Marines are reservists, ranging in MOSs from communications specialists and artillerymen to motor transport operators and administration clerks. “It is something new and...

NEW YORK (AP) - Martha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy, that house arrest is "hideous" and that her prosecution was about bringing her down "to scare other people." In the interview, Stewart tells Vanity Fair magazine she agrees with those who say her crime - lying about a personal stock sale - is far different from massive corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. "Of course that is what it's all about," Vanity Fair quotes Stewart as saying. "Bring 'em down a notch, to scare other people. If Martha can...

North is said to cut back phone use June 08, 2005 -- North Korea is aggressively asserting greater control over domestic and international communications, apparently out of fear the United States could launch a preemptive military strike on the country, two sources with close connections to North Korea have suggested. Starting in April, the sources said Pyongyang blocked 90 percent of its international phone lines to hinder leaks of information to the outside world. Before April, the North operated 970 international phone lines, but the sources said a direct order came from the North's leader, Kim Jong-il, to cut the...

NEW YORK - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the outside. The jury deliberated 13 days over the past month before convicting Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene. Stewart slumped in her chair as the verdict was read, shaking her head and later wiping tears from her eyes. Her supporters gasped upon hearing the conviction,...

(Gaines Township, October 16, 2003, 3:00 p.m.) There is a report of two people with a gun near East Kentwood High School in Gaines Township. The school is on lockdown at this hour. We don't know if there are students inside the school. It is parent teacher conference day. The students all had a half day. There are no reports of shots fired or injuries. There are a number of police agencies on the scene.For parents or people concerned about thsoe who may be in the school, police ask that you go to the Cornerstone United Methodist Church parking lot...

Friday, March 28, 2003 LOCKDOWN Strict health rules declared across T.O. By ROB GRANATSTEIN, TORONTO SUN Toronto has become a hot zone for SARS as Ontario's top doctors step up their mad rush to choke off the spread of the illness before it smothers the city. Under an emergency plan that changes by the day, visitors have been banned from all Toronto hospitals, the province has bought every surgical mask for sale in Canada and the World Health Organization called for all passengers boarding international flights at Pearson airport to be screened for SARS. As the number of cases and...