Police find nothing after lockdown at Yale
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University was locked down for nearly six hours Monday as authorities investigated a phone call saying an armed man was heading to shoot up the school, a warning they later said was likely a hoax.
SWAT teams searching the Ivy League campus did not find a gunman after a room-by-room search and the lockdown was lifted Monday afternoon. No one was injured, police said.
A 911 call was received at 9:48 a.m. from a man at a pay phone about a mile from the campus who said his roommate was on the way to the university to shoot people, said Officer David Hartman, a New Haven Police spokesman.
New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman said he was leaning toward the incident being a hoax.
Karzai won’t change mind about new pact
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s president said Monday he told the U.S. national security adviser that he won’t back down from his refusal to sign a security agreement with the United States but instead will defer it to his successor.
Hamid Karzai’s surprise decision to ignore Sunday’s recommendation to sign by an Afghan assembly of dignitaries has cast doubt on the future presence of American and allied troops in Afghanistan. Washington and many Afghans had hoped the pact could be signed to allow troops to stay after 2014 to train soldiers and police to face a persistent Taliban insurgency.
Washington has asked him to change his mind. But the mercurial Karzai, in a meeting with National Security Adviser Susan Rice, says he laid out a series of new demands.
Associated Press
