BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University said late Monday it has reopened its Baton Rouge campus and classes will resume today, a day after a bomb threat sparked a campus-wide evacuation.
“All campus buildings have been returned to normal operations and the campus is now open for students, faculty and staff,” LSU officials said in an emailed statement. “All classes and events scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 18, will be held as planned, and university employees and students should plan to return to their normal schedules on Tuesday.”
The announcement came hours after university officials began allowing the thousands of students who live on campus to start returning to their dormitories after bombsniffing dogs and police methodically swept residential halls Monday.
LSU spokesman Herb Vincent said earlier Monday night that officials were hoping to reopen the campus by Monday night, but they weren’t certain if a building-by-building sweep would be finished before today.
Evangeline Hall, a residential building on campus, was reopened first.
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