SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) - The Latest on a school evacuated due to a bomb threat (all times local):
12:05 p.m.
Sierra Vista police say a search of Buena High School turned up nothing after a bomb threat Wednesday morning caused the school to be evacuation and classes canceled.
The evacuation forced the school district to bus students to another facility that was designated as a reunification site where parents could go to pick up students.
Police Cpl. Tim Wachtel says the school was turned back over to school officials by noon and that police continued their investigation into the incident.
Buena has an enrollment of 2,600 students but it’s not immediately clear how many were at school Wednesday. Tuesday was day of classes for seniors. Graduation is scheduled for Thursday evening.
District spokeswoman Eva Dickerson says the school will reopen Thursday.
Sierra Vista is 62 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Tucson.
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10:20 a.m.
A southeastern Arizona high school in has been evacuated and the students sent home in response to a bomb threat.
Sierra Vista police Cpl. Tim Wachtel says authorities began a search of Buena High School once all students were evacuated and that no information is immediately available on whether they’ve found anything.
Parents were told not to go to the school to pick up students and to instead go to a reunification site established at the Rothery Education Center.
The incident occurred a day after seniors’ last day of classes and one day before Buena’s graduation Thursday evening.
Sierra Vista is 62 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Tucson.
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