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(Update w/ video) All Clear At The Atchison County, Kansas Courthouse

Bomb ThreatThe people were ushered out and the bomb-sniffing dogs were led in to the county courthouse in Atchison, Kansas Friday morning.

The Atchison County Courthouse was evacuated shortly after 8 a.m.

An officials at the district court office received a call from a man, who said he got a call from someone in Colorado, who claimed there were two pipe bombs in the courthouse.

Investigators with the sheriff’s office and the Kansas Highway Patrol searched the building using bomb-detecting dogs. Nothing was found and the courthouse reopened.

Video courtesy of KQ2

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