Bomb Threat

Classes were canceled and students sheltered in place after the bomb threat in February.

No suspicious items were found during a thorough search of all of the colleges' campuses.

Harris said there have been as many as 80 threats made toward HBCUs and other minority institutions and places of worship this year.

The man who claimed he had a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol last month, prompting evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

A man who claimed he had a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol, prompting evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police, told a federal judge Friday he has not taken his “mind medication” and was ordered to undergo a mental competency hearing.

Police say they did not find a bomb in the vehicle but possible bomb-making materials were collected from it. Authorities are trying to learn what led the man, identified by law enforcement officials as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina, to drive onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress and make bomb threats to officers.

Updated Friday, April 17, 1:46 p.m.Wayne Community College in Goldsboro has closed for the weekend. The college website says it closed at 10 a.m. Friday…