A high school student who was charged with making terroristic threats after telling classmates  to avoid a pep rally because “something big” was going to happen cannot escape a felony charge, an appeals court has ruled.

A three-judge Pennsylvania Superior Court panel consisting of Judges Victor Stabile, Carolyn Nichols and William Platt rejected the defendant’s challenge to the sufficiency of evidence which led to an increase of one charge to a felony as well as his appeal on charges of making terroristic threats.