Some school districts might lag with emergency plans

Licking Heights High School put its state-mandated emergency plan into play on Friday, when someone left a message at the school about 11:30 a.m. that a bomb would detonate within 35 minutes. Students and staff members were evacuated to the football stadium while police, state troopers and firefighters searched the premises of the Pataskala school. Bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in. And the rest of the district was put on “soft lockdown,” meaning exterior doors were locked and peopl