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U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 2:03am neoform

FOX News -- On a university campus of 2,600 acres, with more than 25,000 students, ironclad security is not a practical goal. Even so, tough questions swiftly surfaced as to how effectively Virginia Tech authorities responded to Monday's horrific massacre. Why wer.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 2:03am neoform

FOX News -- Fatal shootings at U.S. colleges or universities in recent years: —April 16, 2007: A gunman kills 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The gunman later dies. —Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman points a rifle from t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 2:02pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Seven police officers were indicted Thursday on murder or attempted murder charges in a pair of shootings on a bridge that left two people dead during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- A man was shot and killed and two people were wounded in three separate shootings early today in Oakland, police said. The man who was killed was shot about 2 a.m. near the corner of 56th Avenue and East 16th Street in East Oakland. The slaying brings.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 29, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Oakland police were investigating two shootings, one of them fatal, that occurred within minutes of one another in different parts of the city. At about 6 p.m., a young man was shot and injured at the corner of Whitney and 59th Streets in a drive-by at.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Most families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate families who lost loved ones, pay survivors' medical costs and avoid a court battle over whether anyone besides the gunman.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- In that case, as in other police shootings, the officer who fired said his actions were triggered by fear for his own safety. At least 64 U.S. law enforcement officers have been killed by gunshots this year, according to the National Law Enforcement Me.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:49am neoform

USA Today -- —A surge in fatal shootings has contributed to a dramatic increase in deaths of law enforcement officers during the first six months of this year, the highest midyear body count in nearly three decades, according to a report due out today. The annual.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed May 9, 2007 @ 2:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Since the massacre of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, the mainstream media have obsessed over the fact the crazed gunmen was able to buy a Glock in the state of Virginia. Little attention has been paid to the Richmond legislators who voted t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 7:51pm neoform

FOX News -- Major U.S. school shootings in the last 10 years: — Greenville, Texas. March 7, 2007. A 16-year-old male high school student fatally shot himself while in the band hallway area of the school around 7:15 a.m. No other students were injured. More than.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 7:51pm neoform

CNN -- Officials at Virginia Tech said Monday that they thought the situation was under control during the hours between two shootings that claimed 33 lives. "We concluded first that the incident in Ambler Johnston [dormitory] was domestic in nature. In fact.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

CNN -- A lone gunman is dead after officials said he killed at least 31 people Monday during shootings in a dorm and a building housing classrooms at Virginia Tech, making it the deadliest school attack in U.S. history. Officials said the shooting incidents o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 4:24pm neoform

Yahoo News -- One of the two men accused of terrorizing Phoenix in a series of random late-night shootings thinks his notoriety deserves compensation. Dale Hausner called the East Valley Tribune from jail and requested a discount Tribune subscription as a reward for ge.. Read More