High school shooting threat spurs heavy police presence

Local police officers have been spread to all Havre public schools today to watch and guard after a threat was found Thursday in a Havre High bathroom.

Despite the threat, and the seriousness with which the school administration and local law enforcement is taking it, school is in session today.

“Obviously, there was a threat,” School District Superintendent Andy Carlson said this morning, adding, “We would not hold school if we had a more credible threat.”

Carlson would not say why the threat is not credible enough to cancel school, only that officers have been investigating, a...