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Cops: Teen arrested after threat to blow up school

Originally published: January 25, 2013 6:57 PM
Updated: January 26, 2013 2:57 PM
By NICHOLAS SPANGLER  nicholas.spangler@newsday.com

Steven Taggart, 16, walks out of district court

Photo credit: Ed Betz | Steven Taggart, 16, walks out of district court in Central Islip. The junior at Islip High School was arrested Friday after police said he posted an online threat to blow up the Kings Park High School gymnasium. (Jan. 26, 2013)

A junior at Islip High School was arrested Friday after police said he posted an online threat to blow up the Kings Park High School gymnasium.

Detectives said Steven Taggart, 16, was engaged in "one-upsmanship" with other students on the social networking website Twitter the night before a boys basketball game between their schools when he wrote that he had a bomb and was getting ready to...

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