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Army officials are investigating a Wednesday afternoon shooting that caused a temporary lockdown at Fort Knox, according to news reports.

A police officer was among two people killed Thursday on the Virginia Tech campus, prompting a sweeping search and school-wide lockdown that lasted over four hours.

Malaysian police say they will shut major roads and suspend public transportation into Kuala Lumpur to block a rally by opposition-backed ac ...

Seventeen schools in and around Pembroke Pines in south Florida are under a lockdown Wednesday because of a "credible threat," a spokeswoman for Broward County Schools told CNN.

Police say a lockdown and reports of a gunman at a NASA research facility in Cleveland resulted from a false alarm. NASA spokeswoman Lori Rachul says: "There was not a shooting." Lt. Don Michalosky with the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office says a message was misunderstood Friday morning while NASA was conducting a test of its automated emergency notification system. He says someone who received the message didn't realize it was a test.

Media Relations Coordinator Senior Airman David Carbajal says there were several incidents Monday which he is not yet able to provide more information about. The lockdown means traffic can't get in or out of the base, which was where the airship ...