{"id":58683,"date":"2025-08-28T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/?p=58683"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:30:30","slug":"no-threat-found-following-active-shooter-alert-at-hospital-in-emporia-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/no-threat-found-following-active-shooter-alert-at-hospital-in-emporia-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"No threat found following active shooter alert at hospital in Emporia, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emporia State University in Kansas issued an emergency alert on Thursday, warning of a reported active shooter near Newman Regional Health hospital. Authorities later said the alarm was unfounded and no threat was identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn active shooter has been reported near Cora Miller Hall and Newman Regional Health,\u201d the ESU alert said on Thursday afternoon, urging students and faculty to run, hide, or fight and providing instructions on how to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emporia Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EmporiaPolice\/posts\/pfbid05cCnVvy1aJZeVNsWA7vTzQ5xDifJKXV4NXCsZeSFmbMTFfqDFAyB9bd8TNANKU5kl?__cft__[0]=AZU9PxIxhNJUlJI9BvXAtbjZC1Jf7tRNt0S7WW-8uMoI4MvdVgyBFTc7UTfpNwAvsHCxpBZ6UH8ZBu9rqskEsgvoSxOLdr60aBf-wPklPs1ttM0u_ikXIav9TOHcbgn5tQ9ZtFp7XneE-0yVd32fGXGAV-XVvI0X4K1DyxWnzT9Hcf4-gtH9JBRflgmW-1iTQRA&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">said<\/a> that officers responded to an active shooter alarm at Newman Regional Health and searched the premises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt appears to be an alarm only \u2014 no active threat has been identified,\u201d police said, adding that officers remained on scene as a precaution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Footage from the area showed multiple police vehicles outside the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident comes amid a wave of false active shooter reports at campuses across the United States in recent days. More than 20 universities in multiple states have been targeted in the past week. Authorities have described those cases as hoaxes, though no arrests have been announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emporia is a city in east-central Kansas, located about 90 miles southwest of Kansas City and 50 miles southeast of Topeka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emporia State University in Kansas issued an emergency alert on Thursday, warning of a reported active shooter near Newman Regional Health hospital. Authorities later said the alarm was unfounded and no threat was identified. \u201cAn active shooter has been reported near Cora Miller Hall and Newman Regional Health,\u201d the ESU alert said on Thursday afternoon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3762,84,1195,151],"class_list":["post-58683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-emporia-kansas","tag-kansas","tag-swatting","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No threat found following active shooter alert at hospital in Emporia, Kansas - BNO News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/no-threat-found-following-active-shooter-alert-at-hospital-in-emporia-kansas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No threat found following active shooter alert at hospital in Emporia, Kansas - BNO News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Emporia State University in Kansas issued an emergency alert on Thursday, warning of a reported active shooter near Newman Regional Health hospital. 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