Official: Campus nooses prompted by approach of Halloween

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A university official says a student suspended for tying two nooses on an Alabama campus and leaving them hanging in a tree did so because it’s getting close to Halloween.
A vice president for the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Michael Mitchell, says the student admitted making the nooses, which were fashioned from ropes that were already hanging from a limb. The ropes had apparently been used to suspend a sign earlier.
Mitchell said Thursday the student t