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UPDATE on Newark Elementary

NEWARK TOWNSHIP Parents of students at Newark Elementary School will have to pick their children up this afternoon because bus service has been curtailed as authorities search for at least two bank robbers. The lockdown for students at Newark Elementary School was lifted about 2:15 p.m. today, but students were not allowed to leave when the school day ended at 3 p.m.. Deputies are guarding the school, and bus service has been halted because all buses must travel through the Newark area, where deputies are searching for the suspects. The lockdown began about 12:30 p.m. today because of a hunt for fugitives who robbed Mid-America bank in Footville. The search for at least two bank robbers continues in an area within a three-mile radius of the school. Less than an hour ago, the sheriff’s department anticipated releasing kids who ride the bus—except for those who live in the search area. But because all buses must travel through or near the search area, that idea was shelved. All children will be kept at school under the protection of deputies until they are picked up by parents or the suspects are caught, said Cmdr. Troy Knudson of the Rock County Sheriff’s Department. Furthermore, students at Parkview High School and Orfordville Elementary who live in the Newark area will be kept at school until picked up by parents. Children will not be kept at the school indefinitely. Even if the suspects have not been caught, deputies will start taking kids home within the three-mile radius sometime after 4 p.m., and bus service will resume, said Gloria Yaun principal of Newark and Orfordville elementary schools.

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