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UD Threat Not Credible, FBI Says

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The University of Delaware was targeted with a violent threat for 10 a.m.

But the FBI told the Wilmington News Journal that its investigators found that the source of the threat was not credible.

The campuses in the Philadelphia area were on alert from another word of a threat that was to take place at 2 p.m. yesterday.

The paper reports that University of Delaware Police Chief Patrick Ogden said there was a posting at the online forum 4chan.org around 9 a.m.

He told the News Journal that it warned people to stay off campus in the northwestern part of the state.

But FBI said that the posting came from a teen in Ohio and determined there was no credible threat.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.