Villanova senior Ava Petrosky was part of a group singing at the ceremony when she saw people in the crowd begin to run.

Villanova University was the center of a major response effort after false 911 reports of an active shooter on campus.

Such false emergency calls are known as "swatting," or calling in a large law enforcement response to a non-existent crisis. On the same day, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was also ...

No active shooter on campus despite report "a blessing and relief," but "I know that today's events have shaken our entire ...

Police responded Thursday to a report of an active shooter on the campus of Villanova University, sparking panic among ...

“Mercifully, no one was injured, and we now know that it was a cruel hoax — there was no active shooter, no injuries, and no ...

The university, which enrolls nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, declined to make leaders available for ...

A day after a hoax shooting incident upended freshman orientation week at Villanova University, police continue to search for ...

Back to school (shootings): The apparent hoax came just hours after another active shooter was reported on the University of ...

People can pick up Narcan in front of City Hall and get "a brief training on how to recognize and respond to an opioid ...

An unfounded active shooter report at Villanova University was a hoax that led to a large police response and a temporary ...

The university president apologized to first-year students, saying “this is not the introduction to Villanova that I had ...