LAUDERDALE COUNTY, AL (WAFF)- Students at Underwood Elementary School found an unloaded gun inside a canvas bag along the fence during recess Thursday morning around 11 a.m. The students were using the bag as home plate while they were playing.

The principal evacuated the playground immediately and informed the superintendent and deputies while student resource officers searched the area.

According to the SRO, an older .22 revolver was inside the bag. There were no bullets in the gun or the bag. Authorities said no students were ever in danger.

They said the gun and bag didn't appear to have anything to do with the school. Principal Kevin Moore sent the following letter to parents about the incident:

By Brad Travis

Partly cloudy and dry tonight with a south wind and lows around 62 degrees.  Showers and thunderstorms will begin to move into NW Alabama around sunrise.  

The line will be capable of strong gusty winds and heavy rain.  The line will be weakening as it tracks from west to east and might not make it completely across the Valley before falling apart before the Noon hour.

FLORENCE, AL (WAFF)- A Tennessee man is back in jail on child
pornography charges after being out on bond for child abuse.

Matthew Thomas Haislip, 30, is charged with
attempting to possess child pornography.

Haislip was arrested Wednesday by U.S.
marshals after Florence police received a tip about where he was living. According
to police, Haislip was living on Spurr Street in Florence when he was arrested
on outstanding warrants from Wisconsin for sexual abuse of a child in September.

According to police, Haislip was accused of
molesting a boy younger than 13-years-old various times during a three-year
period.

Haislip was in the Lauderdale
County Detention Center waiting to be transferred to Wisconsin when authorities said a package
was sent to his residence on Spurr Street that contained child pornography.