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Virginia Tech Fined $55K for Slow Response to Shooting [VIDEO]

Virginia Tech Fined $55K for Response to Shootings

RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Tech will have to pay the maximum $55,000 fine for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. Department officials said in a letter to the school that the sanction should have been greater for...

Opinion: Here's an Easy Way to Improve Gun Safety

Since the Tucson, Ariz., tragedy, many people have renewed calls for more gun control measures. But there's already a perfectly good law on the books that could improve gun safety in this country right now. Congress, with the president's support, just needs to fully fund it. Some background: The FBI's National Instant...

Giffords Shooting Raises Questions About Guns and Mental Illness

WASHINGTON -- It takes a lot to be considered too crazy to own a gun in Arizona. As authorities investigate the mass shooting that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, it appears clear that a growing list of troubling warning signs would not have prohibited suspect Jared Loughner from...

Gun Control Debate: Why Do We Make Gun Violence So Easy?

The only thing worse than slowly watching a shooting unfold on television is being a part of one. Nearly four years after surviving the worst school shooting in America -- the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007 -- and trying to live a "normal" life, I sat there Saturday, stunned, angry and saddened as the nauseating...

Virginia Tech News From the Web

12/08/11 2 Killed in Virginia Tech shooting; shelter in place... Source: NBC - WBOY 12 - Clarksburg WV (The Twitter Feed from The Collegiate Times, a student-run newspaper serving Virginia Tech, and Virginia Tech News are below with updates on the shooting. A Google Map generated by The Collegiate Times has also been added to the bottom of this story. The map shows the two locations of the fatal shootings Thursday at Virginia Tech.) The following is a statement from the Virginia State Police: Virginia State Police responded to Virginia Tech in reference to a shooting in reference to a Virginia Tech police officer being shot and killed while on a traffic stop at the Cassell Coliseum parking lot on Spring Road. Virginia Tech police requested that the Virginia State Police assume primary responsibility for the investigation of the incident.
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Background on Virginia Tech

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech (VT), is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.

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