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Banned by school, seniors plan own event

Nineteen high school seniors are planning to hold their own ceremony, after their school banned them from the official graduation today for touching off a bomb scare.

Nineteen high school seniors are planning to hold their own ceremony, after their school banned them from the official graduation today for touching off a bomb scare.

The students will still get their diplomas.

But, they are facing felony charges for duct-taping alarm clocks to the walls of Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York.

The clocks were supposed to go off during class. The students say it was just a prank.

Motion detectors at the school caught them in the middle of their plans.

The teens are facing more than a year behind bars on charges of placing a false bomb and trespassing.

Fifteen have entered not-guilty pleas.