Report faults response in Virginia Tech shootings
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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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The Pentagon issued sharp criticism Friday of a new congressionally commissioned report on the National Guard and reserves, calling "fundamentally flawed" its assertion that the U.S. military is not adequately prepared to respond to nuclear, biological and chemical attacks on the United States.
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Officials might have saved lives if they had acted sooner after first shootings at college, report says.
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The police delay in attending a fatal shooting "can not be justified", a review into the force's response says.
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Witnesses interviewed for a preliminary report on the police shooting of three men &#151; including a groom on his wedding day &#151; did not mention a fourth, possibly armed man who police say may have been present before officers opened fire, a newspaper reported Monday.
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Advisers had counseled Seung-Hui Cho against going to a large university because of concerns he would be unable to communicate and function socially, a student who survived the Virginia Tech rampage said Wednesday.
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Government questions about &#39;&#39;basic data integrity&quot; derailed publication of a report raising safety concerns about arthritis drug Vioxx on the eve of a
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A bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings is bogged down by objections over funding and who should be barred from buying a firearm.
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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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Virginia Tech's victory over East Carolina was supposed to be a tune-up for this weekend's clash against No. 2 LSU, but instead it exposed a weak link.
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A report by the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs criticized an IT specialist and the directors of one of the agency's medical centers in connection with the loss or theft of a hard drive containing data about more than 1.5 million people.
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A survey of public records by The New York Times found at least 121 U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing or were charged with one after returning home from duty, the newspaper reported on Saturday.
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ATLANTA - Its offense lifeless and defense confused, Virginia Tech looked nothing like a football team primed for its most significant road victory in more than two years.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 18 -- A Virginia House committee on Friday defeated an effort to close a major loophole in the state's gun laws, angering families of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D), who had pushed hard for the law.
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Better information by officials could have saved lives in a shooting spree on campus at Virginia Tech that left 33 people dead, a high-profile independent panel investigating the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history says.
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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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Government questions about ''basic data integrity&quot; derailed publication of a report raising safety concerns about arthritis drug Vioxx on the eve of a contentious congressional hearing, according to an e-mail exchange.