{"id":296292,"date":"2026-09-29T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296292\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:50:45","slug":"liberty-high-school-instagram-threat-not-credible-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296292\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty High School Instagram threat not credible, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A potential threat posted online toward Liberty High School was not credible, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Area School District said high school administration learned Tuesday morning about an anonymous Instagram post that suggested a possible threat. The school was placed on lock-in while administrators and police investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually it was transitioned to a lock-out\u00a0for the rest of the day while police investigated the source and circumstances around the post, according to a district news release. Normal school activities continued, and students will be dismissed at their normal time.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an increased police and administrative presence at dismissal, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>City police said there is no known or active threats to students or staff at the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential threat posted online toward Liberty High School was not credible, according to authorities. Bethlehem Area School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,1391,202,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-296292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}