MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) — Police say an attentive student helped foil an alleged school shooting plot at a Vermont middle school.

The principal at Middlebury Union Middle School called police Saturday after a student overheard two other students plotting to shoot a fourth student at the school, investigators said.

The two students were planning to get guns from a relative and bring them to school Tuesday, police said. Another student also told police about the plot on Monday.

"We definitely need brave, strong individuals to come forward and talk to us and let us know what's going on," Middlebury...