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  • Colorado State routs Virginia Tech 88-52

    December 24, 2012 8:43 AM

    LAS VEGAS - Pierce Hornung had 18 points and 10 rebounds, leading four players in double figures, as Colorado State crushed Virginia Tech 88-52 in the Las Vegas Classic championship game Sunday night. The Rams, after a methodical and balanced approach in a first half that gave them a 33-27... more »
  • Va. gov invokes Tech slayings, offers his prayers

    December 14, 2012 1:54 PM

    RICHMOND, Va. - Saying his state still has painful memories from the mass April 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, the governor extended his sympathies to Connecticut following an elementary school massacre. Gov. Bob McDonnell said his thoughts and prayers are with the families affected by Friday's shootings at Sandy Hook... more »
  • Va. Tech marking 5 years since campus massacre

    April 16, 2012 7:02 AM

    BLACKSBURG, Va. - Each anniversary since the April 2007, massacre on the Virginia Tech campus, classes have been suspended for the day in memory of the 32 students and faculty killed in the rampage by a lone gunman who then killed himself. On Monday, the fifth anniversary of the deadliest... more »
  • Jury finds Va. Tech negligent in '07 shootings

    March 14, 2012 2:33 PM

    CHRISTIANSBURG, Va.- A jury has found Virginia Tech negligent for delaying a campus warning of the first shootings in a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 dead. Jurors returned the verdict Wednesday in a wrongful death civil suit brought by the parents of two students who were killed on April... more »
  • Va Tech officals learned lessons from 2007 shooting

    December 10, 2011 11:08 AM

    BLACKSBURG, Va. - For those who were at Virginia Tech in 2007, the shooting death of a campus police officer and the apparent suicide of his killer brought back harrowing memories. But the police and university response to the incident were also proof that the slayings of 32 people... more »
  • Police: Va. Tech shooter not person pulled over

    December 8, 2011 12:10 PM

    BLACKSBURG, Va. - State police say the gunman who killed a police officer at Virginia Tech appears to have walked into a parking lot and shot the officer during a traffic stop. Sgt. Robert Carpentieri says it appears that the shooter also was not in the car that was pulled... more »
  • Virginia Tech fined $55K for reponse to shootings

    March 29, 2011 3:15 PM

    RICHMOND, Va.- The U.S. Department of Education has fined Virginia Tech $55,000 for waiting too long to notify students during a 2007 shooting rampage. The amount was the maximum fine Tech faced for two violations of the federal Clery Act, which requires timely reporting of crimes on campus. ... more »
  • Former student arrested after Facebook threat

    December 1, 2010 4:35 PM

    BATON ROUGE – A 20-year-old former Woodlawn High School student was arrested after deputies said he admitted to threatening the school on Facebook. Investigators with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office said William Moulder admitted that on Nov. 23 he posted the following message to his Facebook page: “… people... more »
  • ESPN analyst-LSU in toughest regional

    June 2, 2010 8:50 AM

    ESPN college baseball analyst Kyle Peterson said LSU will play in the toughest regional as action gets underway later this week. The Tigers travel to Los Angeles where they take on U-C Irvine on Friday. Number one seed-UCLA will battle Kent State in the other game. "They'll (LSU)... more »
  • Government report sees increase in campus violence

    April 16, 2010 12:48 PM

    A government report finds that targeted violence on college campuses, from serious assaults to the mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, is up sharply over the last two decades. The study by the FBI, Secret Service and Education Department found that targeted campus violence is hardly a new... more »

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