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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) --UPDATED - Minneapolis Public Schools remained locked down for a second day because of a vague Internet threat.
The district will keep its 32,000 students indoors again Thursday and all exterior doors locked because of Internet threats traced to computer servers in Australia.
Minneapolis police spokesman Jesse Garcia says someone called the city's 311 information line about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday and warned that a posting on a social networking site said a male would be coming to an unspecified school to "shoot up" the place and then shoot himself.
Parents received a telephone alert message to notify them of the situation.
St. Paul police Sgt. Paul Schnell told the Star Tribune investigators believe the person behind the threats is a teenager with no connection to the area.
The FBI and the international police organization Interpol have been notified.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The investigation of the Web threats that led to the lockdown of schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul has investigators looking down under.
St. Paul police spokesman Paul Schnell says the department's computer experts have tracked the messages to servers in Australia. He says the FBI and Interpol have been notified.
Threats that authorities believe are related were sent to several social networking sites. They reached the schools Wednesday morning, prompting the lockdowns.
In a post on two sites, someone threatened to shoot up a Minneapolis school. Since it didn't specify which one, district officials put them all on alert.
Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul also received a vague threat Wednesday morning, and had a similar response.
There were no incidents Wednesday.
