School lockdown drills have become common — experts say they could be better
Before the Columbine High School shooting, schools prepared for fires and natural disasters. After the 1999 massacre, states enacted lockdown and active shooter drills.
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Before the Columbine High School shooting, schools prepared for fires and natural disasters. After the 1999 massacre, states enacted lockdown and active shooter drills.
A standoff that prompted an evacuation of residents and schools to go into lockdown on Cape Cod is now over.
A lockdown was lifted at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School Friday morning after a student shot others with a toy "gel blaster" gun.
A "jarring" nursery rhyme posted in a Somerville classroom to help prepare young children for a lockdown is going viral.
The Tobin School in Mission Hill was in safe mode for about twenty minutes as police searched the neighborhood after getting a call of shots fired on Smith Street around 9:45 a.m.
A report of a shot fired in the area of a Shirley prison prompted a lockdown on Thursday, State Police say.
The Southbridge Middle/High School was locked down Wednesday afternoon.
A suburban Boston high school was placed on lockdown with Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo and another state lawmaker stuck aside.
Milton High School went into lockdown for about two hours Wednesday afternoon.
A New Hampshire middle school was placed in lockdown on Monday after a student found a shotgun shell inside a locker room.
A 21-year-old man who prompted a lockdown at his former high school when a student spotted a gun tucked into his waistband had gone there to ask a teacher for a letter of recommendation to college, police said Friday.
A man is in custody after someone was seen entering a Manchester, New Hampshire high school with a gun, police said.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says the decision to lock down much of greater Boston during the search for the surviving suspect in the marathon bombing was a "tough call" but one he's glad that was made.
A young man is charged with trying to kill his mother in Salem, New Hampshire Thursday morning.
An Attleboro school is in lock down as State and Attleboro police search for a man believed to be carrying a gun.
Police say two schools in Laconia, N.H., were put in lockdown mode Tuesday.
The MIT campus was put on lockdown Saturday morning following what turned out to be an unfounded report of a person with a long rifle and body armor spotted inside a campus building.
Officials at Brockton High School are defending their handling of a lockdown situation Thursday morning after a student thought they saw someone with a gun.
Keene State went into lockdown early Saturday morning when a man with a gun, a goalie mask, and no shirt ran onto campus.
Canton already has the kind of lockdown drills most schools around the country implemented after the infamous Columbine attack. Now, local police are taking that a step further.
Inmates at New Hampshire's Merrimack County jail are on lockdown after a rebellion prompted by an instruction to clean their unit.
Apponequet Regional High School was put into lockdown mode Thursday morning because of a reported threat.
Police were looking for an "armed individual" in West Keene on Tuesday morning and locked down four schools as a precaution.
A school was put under lockdown in Walpole, New Hampshire Friday after a 14-year-old student shot himself.
A 16-year-old was placed in custody after he allegedly entered Nashoba Valley Technical High School with an air soft rifle, forcing officials to place the school in lockdown on Wednesday.
