{"id":749630,"date":"2018-10-30T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=749630"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:53:00","slug":"an-evacuation-at-the-state-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=749630","title":{"rendered":"State Capitol Reopened After a Small Evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/State-Capitol5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/State-Capitol5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-382248\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) &#8211;  Part of the Texas state Capitol has been briefly evacuated as police officers and a bomb squad checked a suspicious package and letter delivered to a lawmaker&#8217;s office. The Department of Public Safety said in a statement Tuesday that a &#8220;limited area&#8221; of underground offices &#8220;was evacuated as a precautionary measure,&#8221; but later reopened when the scene &#8220;was cleared and no viable threat was discovered.&#8221; First word came from a Facebook posting by Tyler State Representative Matt Schaefer. It said, &#8220;DPS has evacuated my staff in our Capitol office along with other offices in the vicinity due to a suspicious package. If phones are not answered, leave a message.&#8221; The incident affected a small enough part of the building that the Capitol remained open, with tourists and others mostly coming and going as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) &#8211; Part of the Texas state Capitol has been briefly evacuated as police officers and a bomb squad checked a suspicious package and letter delivered to a lawmaker&#8217;s office. The Department of Public Safety said in a statement Tuesday that a &#8220;limited area&#8221; of underground offices &#8220;was evacuated as a precautionary measure,&#8221; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=749630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State Capitol Reopened After a Small Evacuation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":382248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 16:13:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749671,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749630\/revisions\/749671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}