Va. Tech Opens Refurbished Norris Hall, Site of Tragic Shootings
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By SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR  BLACKSBURG, Va. - The walls gleam with a fresh coat of white paint, and a glossy new floor shines underfoot. Even the classroom numbers that so evoked the tragic events of that dark day in April have been scraped off, never to be put back.
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More than 4,300 students and employees at Virginia Tech have signed up for a new emergency alert system, several months after a student gunman killed 32 people and himself on campus.
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In the wake of Thursday's shootings at Northern Illinois University, several memorials dedicated to the victims of the tragedy have sprung up on social networking site Facebook and YouTube.
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Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly with a gun law after Virginia Tech's shooting, but it came too late for Northern Illinois University and it is unclear whether it would have made a difference
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Gaps in knowledge could prevent legal information sharing about potential killers, according to a report into Virginia Tech massacre. The federal report published Wednesday said educators, doctors and police sometimes did not know when they could share information on students. In April, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 fellow Tech students and faculty members before killing himself in the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
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Yale University, famous for its Gothic buildings, is showing off a newly restored jewel that marked the beginning of its modern era.
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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D), along with local government and business leaders, broke ground yesterday on One Loudoun, one of the county's largest mixed-use projects and the future home of the World Trade Center Dulles Airport.
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Delaware State University will reopen for classes tomorrow, but the gunman who shot two students from the District early Friday, one seriously, remained at large last night, officials said.
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Police searched for suspects Friday in the shooting deaths of two Louisiana State University students, and unlike other schools in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, administrators decided against locking down the campus.
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One year after five players were shot in the worst act of random violence to strike a major college sports program, Duquesne University's basketball team is in a healing mode.
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Slow-moving efforts to improve Virginia's mental health system, including changing the way mentally ill people are monitored and when they can be committed, have accelerated in the two months since Seung Hui Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech and could be in place as soon as next year.
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When Rob Nieweg of the National Trust for Historic Preservation toured the abandoned west campus of old St. Elizabeths Hospital a few years ago, he was eager to explore Hitchcock Hall, the theater for the nation's first federal mental institution. As Nieweg waited to get his bearings in the dingy...
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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 obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 28 -- The Virginia General Assembly continued to move forward Monday to overhaul how the state cares for people with mental illness, promising to fix a system whose flaws were exposed last year after the shootings at Virginia Tech.
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Students shared hugs, knelt to say prayers and wept openly Friday at the entrance of Dawson college, where a makeshift flower-covered shrine was steadily growing as the city paused to take stock of this week's school shooting.
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A manhunt for an escaped convict suspected in the slayings of a hospital guard and a sheriff's deputy shut down the Virginia Tech campus on the first day of classes Monday as sharpshooters were posted on university rooftops and students scrambled for safety.
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Scenes of campus violence in a new Fox drama based on "The Terminator" movies were filmed before the Virginia Tech shootings and will be revised, a network executive said Sunday.