Students at North Dakota State University in Fargo were evacuated Friday morning from classes after a bomb threat was made, the Valley News reports. An emergency message sent to students and posted on the university's website ordered all students and employees to leave campus by 10:15 am. A similar incident was reported at about the same time at the University of Texas at Austin.

A Cub Foods store in South Minneapolis was evacuated Saturday after a bomb threat was called into the business, police say. According to a police spokesman, store managers evacuated the building, and police found no device. A bomb dog also conducted the final sweep.

A downtown Minneapolis building was evacuated Friday afternoon after a threat was made against the M & I Bank, according to witnesses at the scene, WCCO reports. Witnesses say a man entered the M & I Bank in the Gaviidae Commons in downtown Minneapolis and made threats. A man also allegedly made a threat to WCCO-TV.

Oakdale police and firefighters have cleared the Carmike Cinemas Oakdale 20 after the Carmike corporate office received a general threat. An Oakdale Community Affairs Officer tells the Woodbury Patch, "There was no specific location or time frame given. The police department did not receive credible information that the threat was specific to Oakdale."

Roads were closed and nearby businesses evacuated while a bomb squad detonated the device in the man's vehicle.

The riding-the-rails lifestyle of Jim Morphew, 83, recently crowned at the Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, began when he left the family farm in Oakdale in 1945, at age 16, the Pioneer Press reports. "A hobo travels and works. A tramp travels but does not work. A bum does neither," Morphew said. "A bum sits and begs." He's now settled back in Oakdale.

Philip Pariso is facing two counts of terroristic threats and two counts of kidnapping. Police say the Inver Grove Heights man walked into M&I Bank in downtown Minneapolis on Friday and said he had a bomb. The threat led to the lunchtime evacuation of Gaviidae Common and surrounding streets.

School officials say students and faculty were secured in their classrooms after reports came in of a bomb being placed somewhere in the school.The student was not identified but faces charges of making terroristic threats.