Report faults Virginia Tech response in 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 on Thursday.
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When Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho committed suicide, he not only foreclosed any opportunity for officials to question him about his killing spree, but also ensured that his mental health records will remain secret &#151; at least until a court says otherwise.
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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 used, the university said Wednesday.
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LSU didn't need any small-school sacrificial lambs on its early season schedule to post a couple of gaudy blowouts. The tenacious Tigers made Virginia Tech look like a pushover instead of the ninth-ranked team in the nation.
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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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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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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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Deron Washington's driving layup falls through at the buzzer of overtime Wednesday, giving Virginia Tech a 70-69 victory over Virginia, its first in Charlottesville since the 1969-70 season.
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Virginia Tech has distributed more than $8.5 million in donations to aid victims of the mass killings on campus in April, school leaders said Tuesday.
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Defensive end Carlton Powell and a bevy of Hokies shared their memories of the tragic shooting massacre on campus April 16 at the ACC media day Sunday. Every ACC team will wear a patch honoring the Hokies in 2007.
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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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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine met Saturday for two hours with relatives of those killed at Virginia Tech and pledged they would have access to a panel investigating the shootings, but stopped short of giving them a seat on the panel. The relatives have demanded representation on an eight-member panel Kaine has appointed to investigate the April 16 shootings that left 33 dead.
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The majority of treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder that are used to treat hundreds of thousands of veterans lack rigorous scientific evidence that they are effective, according to a report issued yesterday by a panel of the federal government's top scientists.
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Family members of several victims of the Virginia Tech shootings on Wednesday pleaded with a panel investigating the killings to assign accountability for the tragedy.
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The Air Force has concluded that pilot error and a poorly designed aircraft control caused an F-16 pilot to fire 27 rounds of 20mm ammunition, some of which struck a New Jersey elementary school, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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Convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo told authorities he and John Allen Muhammad were responsible for four additional shootings, according to a published report, but the only survivors of those shootings said Friday they couldn&#039;t identify their attackers.
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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.