<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Seattle Times at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2012/09/whatcom-co-student-calls-bomb-threat/">http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2012/09/whatcom-co-student-calls-bomb-threat/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------</div><div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><h2 class="hed6" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; "><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Student calls in bomb threat to finish homework</span></font></h2></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everson police say a 13-year-old boy who fell behind in homework called in a bomb threat to get more time to finish it.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police Chief Erik Ramstead says investigators were able to track the phone call made Wednesday morning to a home in Whatcom County.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Bellingham Herald reports the boy was arrested at Nooksack Valley Middle School.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ramstead says the teen told officers he was overwhelmed by schoolwork and needed some extra time to catch up.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police say the boy dialed 911 about 8 a.m. and told a dispatcher the school was going to “blow up” in two hours.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Buses were rerouted to a high school while staff and early arrivers were evacuated from the middle school. A bomb-sniffing dog was called in to ensure no explosives were hidden on campus.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------<br><br>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .<div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>