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Year in Review: Bomb threat shuts down Court Street

By Liz Bracher, Staff Writer
   
June 11, 2008 | 6 a.m.

On Thursday, March 20, 2008, right as winter quarter's final exams were wrapping up, a bomb threat was called into the Athens County Courthouse around 10 a.m.

Businesses on Court Street and the street itself were closed for more than four hours while police further investigated the threat. The caller was an adult male, but nothing else about his identity was discovered. With help from bomb-sniffing dogs and the Columbus Police Department, it was determined that the threat was merely a false alarm.

Court Street reopened around 3:30 p.m., and the exam schedule was not affected by the threat.

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