A report of a shooter on Villanova University’s campus was a “cruel hoax,” the school’s president said Thursday.

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 ...

Prosecutors and the FBI are investigating what they now call an active shooting hoax at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.

“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 emergency call to Villanova’s Department of Public Safety on Thursday included the sound of gunshots in the background, ...

The day after a false report of an active shooter roiled the Villanova University campus during freshman orientation, campus ...

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

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

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 ...

The campus issued a warning to avoid the law school after receiving an anonymous report of an active shooter. After ...

Classes at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga resumed on Friday after they were canceled on Thursday due to an emergency phone call indicating an active shooter was on campus, ...