{"id":150253,"date":"2025-09-12T01:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150253\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:04:18","slug":"us-naval-academy-on-lockdown-following-reports-of-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150253\/","title":{"rendered":"US Naval Academy on lockdown following reports of threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) \u2014 The United States Naval Academy in Maryland is on lockdown Thursday as law enforcement responds to reports of threats made to the military school, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The academy in Annapolis was working with local law enforcement to respond to the reports of threats, Lt. Naweed Lemar, the spokesperson for the base that hosts the academy, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"FILE - An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G6YOLRCLXJDDVMLPPAF2BQNQFI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>FILE &#8211; An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014.(AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky, File)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe base is on lockdown out of an abundance of caution,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a developing situation and we will provide updates as they become available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police were near Bancroft Hall, which houses midshipmen in its more than 1,600 dorm rooms. It is considered the biggest single college dormitory in the world, according to the school\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No further immediate information was released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) \u2014 The United States Naval Academy in Maryland is on lockdown Thursday as law enforcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79601,92684,23,77846,92687,92683,92686,92685,3,21,19,22,20,25,92681,92682,24],"class_list":["post-150253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-active-threat","tag-active-threat-us-naval-academy","tag-america","tag-annapolis","tag-annapolis-lockdown","tag-annapolis-on-lockdown","tag-annapolis-threat","tag-naval-support-activity-annapolis","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-naval-academy","tag-us-naval-academy-in-annapolis-on-lockdown","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}