BOSTON (CBS) -- Police at colleges and universities across Massachusetts responded to reports ... was evacuated after someone reported an armed clown on campus. A staff member saw a threat posted ...

Load YouTube video Clown scares actually originated in Massachusetts. Many trace the craze back to Brookline in 1981, when police dealt with a series of complaints from elementary school ...

Police in two Massachusetts communities aren’t laughing as teenagers take the clown craze a little too seriously. A freshman boy at Methuen High School will be summonsed to court after he wore a ...

Clown "mass hysteria" broke out last week after a Lewistown woman spread false rumors on social media that clowns were planning to cause mayhem at Mifflin County School District schools ...