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'Very chilling': Alarming detail emerges about violent threats in Springfield

New disturbing details have emerged about threats targeting a Springfield university after former President Donald Trump spread baseless claims about local immigrant eating pets, CNN reported Tuesday. Wittenberg University president Dr. Michael Frandsen appeared on the cable news network Tuesday morning to discuss the violent threats that forced him to transition students to remote learning — and to share a …

Violent Threats

An annual festival celebrating cultural diversity in Springfield has been canceled as violent threats, triggered by Sen. J.D. City officials announced Monday that CultureFest, slated to take place on Sept. 27 and Sept. 28, had been scrapped after multiple schools and the town hall were targeted with bomb threats, the Springfield News-Sun reported. “However, the safety of our residents and …

A veteran police officer in Illinois resigned Tuesday after researchers connected him to a deluge of violent and bigoted social media posts that glorified Adolf Hitler and hate crimes. The resignation of Springfield Police Department Officer Aaron Paul Nichols, 46, came shortly after his department announced an investigation into the posts, first surfaced by Anonymous Comrades Collective, a group of …