Four students arrested for terrorist threats at school

Security was increased at Northview High School Monday and some parents checked their children out of classes after the weekend arrests of four students accused of making terrorist threats on a social networking Web site. Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes said officials began investigating the threats Friday after school officials were contacted by a parent whose child read the postings on a MySpace blog. “Some of the language was very extreme and very to the point, very violent," Hughes said Monday. “We consider all threats to be credible, and we investigate all threats as such. Our policy is intervention, so no matter if they planned to do it or not, we intervened." (more...)