Students and staff were advised to shelter in place as authorities scoured the campus for the potential threat.

A “swatting call” is a dangerous and illegal prank in which the caller claims a life-threatening emergency at a specific ...

An alert of a possible shooter at Claremont McKenna College Thursday evening that prompted shelter in place orders and a multi-agency law enforcement response turned out to be a false report, ...

Calls have triggered huge deployments of law enforcement and caused panic at schools, churches and other institutions. But ...

The Claremont Police Department received an emergency call from an unknown person stating they were holding someone captive in a restroom at the college campus. They also said they had a bomb and were ...

Claremont McKenna College campus was on lockdown Thursday after a report of a possible shooter. The school sent out a message ...

“The caller told dispatch they were in a restroom on the Claremont McKenna College campus, holding someone captive and threatening to harm them,” the department said in a statement.

A state senator from Southern California introduced a bill to allow prosecutors to charge people who make "swatting" calls ...

Someone called police around 4:45 p.m. claiming to be holding someone captive in a Claremont McKenna bathroom with a bomb, with the caller also threatening to walk around campus with a rifle and ...

Students and faculty at Claremont McKenna College on Thursday rushed to shelter in place as police responded to reports of a possible shooter on campus, only to learn hours later that the report ...