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Police responded Thursday, Dec. 17, to the sixth recent report of indecent exposure, the latest in a series of flasher and voyeurism cases north of Western Washington University campus.

Two young women called police around 11:15 p.m. when they saw a man outside their window on the east…

A suspended Western Washington University student acknowledged to a campus police officer that he wrote “Let’s lynch her” on an online thread about a black student leader but said he promptly deleted it, according to the Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

Tysen Campbell, who is…

At the center of a hate-speech incident at Western Washington University over Thanksgiving week was an anonymous-posting app many students use and many parents may not know about: Yik Yak.

It was the latest in a string of events across the country that have students, activists and…

Bruce Shepard, president of Western Washington University, canceled classes there for a day last week after the student-body president, Belina Seare, was the subject of a threatening post on the anonymous online application Yik Yak. The post about Ms. Seare, who is black, said, "Let’s lynch her…

A court commissioner set bail at $10,000 for the Western Washington University student accused of posting threats against students of color on an anonymous messaging service.

Whatcom County Court Commissioner Martha Gross on Tuesday found probable cause to hold sophomore Tysen Campbell,…

Most, but not all, students returned to a Washington state university Monday as police investigate racial threats against black students and others on social media that shut down the campus last week.

At a public forum about the racist remarks, one student said she had to force herself to…

Decrying systemic racism that they described as endemic at Western Washington University, faculty and staff members pledged to root out the causes during a Monday morning town hall-style meeting.

WWU canceled classes on Tuesday before Thanksgiving because of threats against students of…

The University of Chicago on Sunday announced that its main campus would be largely closed today, with classes called off, due to a threat of gun violence. The development comes amid worries at many colleges about threats as well as incidents of actual violence. Last week, Western Washington…