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U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Washington Post -- Virginia Tech will offer the families of the 32 students and faculty members slain by Seung Hui Cho a one-time payment of $180,000 from a fund created to receive private donations in the weeks after the April 16 massacre, the administrator of the Hokie Sp.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 11:02pm neoform

CNN -- The families of some of the 32 people killed on Virginia Tech's campus demanded representation Monday on a gubernatorial panel studying the killings, saying they feel "ostracized." They are also questioning the status of a memorial fund that has genera.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 1:19am neoform

CNN -- Queen Elizabeth II began her first visit to the United States in 16 years with a message of sympathy and sorrow for the victims of last month's massacre at Virginia Tech. "My heart goes out to the students, friends and families of those killed and to t.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

ABC News -- This past Tuesday the governor of Virginia announced he would close the loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people — and himself — on the Virginia Tech campus. OK, it's a good idea to keep guns out of the hands of pe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 4:02pm neoform

FOX News -- Computer files, cell phone records and e-mails have yielded no evidence about what triggered Seung-Hui Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech last week or whether he singled out any of his 32 victims. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, State P.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 7:47pm neoform

ABC News -- On the April 19 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show , the famous conservative talk radio host opined about the political views of Seung-hui Cho, the Virginia tech massacre madman. "If this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:37pm neoform

CBS News -- There's been little change in Americans' views on gun control in the wake of last week's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, according to a CBS News poll. A majority favors tighter handgun laws, but not in higher numbers than in the past. More than half.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:33pm neoform

CNN -- When a judge deemed Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho a danger to himself due to mental illness in 2005, that ruling should have disqualified him from buying a handgun under federal law. It didn't. And his slaughter of 32 people last week has rais.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 3:09pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- A Virginia Tech freshman who returned home with his family after last week's campus massacre was killed in a car crash, his father said Sunday. Jeff Soriano died from his injuries Friday in a Norfolk, Va., hospital after he was pulled from the wreckage.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:48pm neoform

SF Gate -- Excerpts from the video Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC News: _ "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today. But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 4:19pm neoform

USA Today -- A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said. During a class discussion of Monday's massacre at Vi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 4:19pm neoform

CNN -- Had they lived, they might have gone on to change the world as teachers, military officers or engineers -- but the killer who cut so many lives short at Virginia Tech snatched all that away. Mourners remembered the 32 victims of Monday's killings durin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- A gunman who shot dead at least 30 people before killing himself at Virginia Tech university was a resident Asian student, its president has said. Charles Steger did not identify the man, whom he said had been living in the university dormitories. A.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Washington Post -- An outburst of gunfire at a Virginia Tech dormitory, followed two hours later by a ruthless string of attacks at a classroom building, killed 32 students, faculty and staff and left about 30 others injured yesterday in the deadliest shooting rampage in th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Washington Post -- A single question stood out yesterday at Virginia Tech: Would more students be alive if the university had stopped them from going to class after a shooting occurred in a campus dorm? The first shooting was reported at 7:15 a.m. in a dormitory, West Am.. Read More

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 Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

CNN -- A gunman is dead after opening fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing at least 31 people and wounding at least 29 others in the deadliest campus shooting spree in U.S. history. Students in Blacksburg, Virginia, described a cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 2:56pm neoform

Newsday -- A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, government officials told The Associated Press. The gunman was killed, bringing to death toll to 31, but.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

FOX News -- Amid the Confederate flags, anti-Yankee bumper stickers and Civil War relics on display at Bob Moates Sport Shop, a counterattack against the North is under way. "Ask about the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway" reads a sign taped to the gun shop's register, beck.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 28, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A man whose lawyers claimed he was mentally disabled has been executed for killing a convenience store owner in Virginia. Kevin Green was pronounced dead Tuesday at 10:05 p.m. EDT in the first execution in Virginia in nearly two years. The 31-year-old'.. Read More