The real-time updates, officials said, brought some level of credence to the May 16 bomb threats compared to others that have been called into schools in the county over recent years.
The police response, which included bomb-sniffing dogs, startled students and terrified parents. Police say the two struck again the next day to make bomb threats to Walt Whitman High School and Bethesda Elementary School. No explosives were found at the schools.
