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UPDATE:  Police say a man who barricaded inside a home in Salem, Mass., was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot early this afternoon. Tthe man's name has not bee released.  An earlier story is below. Massachusetts state police have deployed a bomb squad in Salem after authorities evacuated neighbors living near a home in which an armed man has barricaded himself...

Dartmouth Middle School hosted a drill on Thursday to demonstrate how the school's recently installed Mutualink system would be used in a scenario that involved an armed shooter entering the building. The Mutualink system has a panic button that school officials can press in the event of an emergency...

The American Civil Liberties Union hit an interesting snag while trying to put together a nation-wide report on SWAT team usage. The Washington Post reports that the ACLU's Massachusetts chapter sent a number of public records requests to various SWAT teams across the state, many of which are run by regional law enforcement councils, and several of those councils responded that they are private co

Two high-powered rifles stolen from an unmarked FBI SWAT vehicle in Andover have been recovered. A 16-year-old Lawrence boy has been charged with the theft of the weapons. Andover Commander Charles Heseltine says the weapons were recovered with some traditional police work, lifting a fingerprint...