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A lockdown is in place at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center's Emergency Department.

Boonville Elementary School was put on lockdown this morning after live ammunition was found inside the school.

Classes at SUNY Canton have been cancelled and students were told to take shelter and lock their doors after a threat on the social media website Yik-Yak.

There were "several shooting incidents in downtown Ottawa" Wednesday morning, according to Ottawa police. The shooter or shooters have not been identified, though at least one is believed to be deceased.

UPDATE: 09/26/2014 1411 Although officially still on lockdown, New Hartford schools will dismiss on schedule, with strict security measures in place.  All students will exit from one location in their respective buildings.  After school activities and after school programs, in New Hartford, Utica, and New York Mills are cancelled.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama says police have searched a dormitory after receiving reports of people with firearms, but a thorough search found no weapons or people not authorized to be there.

The Marcy Correctional Facility is on lockdown after correction officers found 90 makeshift weapons in a 24 hour period.

For the Second Time in three days the White House was put under a lockdown today.

UPDATE 3:15 p.m. EST: The lockdown and shelter-in-place orders have been lifted, according to the Yale alert system. Police have been going door-to-door on campus searching for the gunman, though authorities will not confirm whether it may have been a hoax.

UPDATE: 11:50am The lockdown at Rome Free Academy has been lifted.