Va. Tech Criticized In Massacre Probe
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The panel appointed by the governor to investigate the massacre at Virginia Tech is critical of the university's response to the shootings and its treatment of Seung Hui Cho, concluding that some lives could have been saved if officials had issued an alert sooner that a gunman was on campus.
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Some outside scientists wondered whether a Department of Veterans Affairs panel was stretching thin data to tell veterans what they wanted to hear in the committee's recent report.
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Each of the 32 victims gunned down in the Virginia Tech massacre will be honored with a $100,000 endowment fund and their families will decide how the money will be directed, the university said Wednesday.
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At the Mobile & Wireless World conference, several university CIOs said that in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, theyre being asked to find new ways to inform students and employees about emergencies.
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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine examined online videos Thursday that show a man he appointed to the state Commission on Immigration condemning Israel and advocating "the jihad way," his spokesman said.
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Virginia's secretary of technology, George C. Newstrom, said yesterday that he is stepping down from the post after more than two years on the job. He will be replaced by his deputy, Eugene J. Huang.
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After the first shootings, Virginia Tech failed to notify students and faculty members in a timely way that a gunman was loose.
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By Cindy Clayton, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 20--CHESAPEAKE -- Police are looking for vandals who caused $100,000 worth of damage at Sparrow Road Intermediate School during the weekend.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- A panel investigating the Virginia Tech massacre obtained university mental health records of the student gunman after weeks of negotiation with his family, officials said Thursday.
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An investigation is held into allegations of civilian casualties from British troop gunfire in Afghanistan.
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A state panel said university officials last April erred in waiting to notify students and faculty members that there had been killings on campus.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq ordered an investigation yesterday into whether a security breach triggered the massacre of 49 army recruits; meanwhile two foreign soldiers, an Estonian and an American, were killed in surging guerrilla raids during Ramadan.
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By Michael Sluss, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 21--RICHMOND -- Two hardware failures in the state's central computer system forced Department of Motor Vehicles offices to close early Wednesday and created problems for other government agencies.
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By SUE LINDSEY  ROANOKE, Va. - The classroom building where a gunman killed 30 people and himself on the Virginia Tech campus will be reopened for offices and laboratories later this month, the university announced Tuesday.
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Virginia Tech University officials should have been quicker to notify students and faculty about two killings on campus hours before the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, according to a state report released on Thursday.
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ATLANTA - During the American Civil War, General William T. Sherman burnt down the city of Atlanta. Thursday night in that same city, the Virginia Tech football team emulated Sherman, lighting up the scoreboard
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The gunman responsible for the April massacre at Virginia Tech was a sickly child &#151; shy, frail and leery of physical contact by the time he was 3. His teachers said he began showing suicidal and homicidal tendencies by the eighth grade.