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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Virginia Tech stories: 38 news summaries

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Va. Tech Shooter May Have Practiced

Investigators reveal new details
of deadly April rampage

Aug 10, 07 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Virginia Tech killer may have rehearsed his rampage 2 days before the massacre of 32 people on April 16, police investigators said today. One witness reported spotted a suspicious-looking hooded male near doors inside the academic building where the shootings took place on April 14, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports;... More »

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'Brutal' Job Blasted in Coach's Death

Too much pressure
in college hoops, columnist says

Aug 2, 07 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The recent death of Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser has triggered severe criticism about grueling demands placed on NCAA skippers. ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski speculates that the "brutal recruiting month" of July is to blame for tragedies like Prosser's heart attack and another Div I coach's seizure—and calls... More »

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Pastor: Killer Possessed by 'Demonic Power'

Cho's mother sought spiritual healing as
son deteriorated

May 6, 07 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mother of Seung Hui Cho sought spiritual healing for her angry, troubled son, the Washington Post reports in an examination of the Virginia Tech shooter's mental state. The head pastor of the One Mind Church in Woodbridge, Virginia, said his church was approached last summer to help deliver the... More »

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NRA Backs Gun Sales To Terror Suspects

Opposes bill giving AG discretion
to ban sales to people on terror
watch lists

May 4, 07 10:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The NRA is urging the Bush administration to oppose a bill that bans suspected terrorists from buying guns. In a letter to AG Alberto Gonzales, the group's executive director objects that the bill, introduced in the Senate last week, "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on... More »

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Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole

Executive order would have barred V.T.  shooter from buying weapon

Apr 30, 07 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia governor Tim Kaine has issued an executive order closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui to purchase a gun, the AP reports. Effective immediately, Virginians diagnosed as dangerously mentally ill will be added to a national database that gun-store owners use for background checks. The order... More »

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Police Search for Answers at VT

Apr 26, 07 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Post reports on the ongoing probe into the Virginia Tech shootings, with police reconstructing details of gunman Cho Seung-Hui's movements and searching for motives. Questions include whether Emily Hilscher, his first victim, was a random target, and the possibility that someone else mailed Cho's manifesto to NBC News. More »

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Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands

Mentally ill students shielded by federal regs; parents, others can't be notified

Apr 19, 07 1:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite numerous red flags, Cho Seung-Hui was able to live in a Virginia Tech dorm and plot a campus massacre in part because the law limits colleges' ability to seek help for adult students who do not request it. Stalking complaints and a report that Cho was suicidal did not... More »

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Police Talked to Cho in 2005

Officials say they didn't have grounds to arrest, mandate treatment

Apr 18, 07 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police questioned Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui twice in 2005, after two women accused him of accused making unwanted contact, the Virginia Tech police department said this morning. The same semester, poetry professor Nikki Giovanni had him removed from her class. But since Cho made no direct threats, the police... More »

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Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence

Playwriting class submissions cast their writer as "school shooter" type

Apr 18, 07 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Seung Cho, blogs on AOL about two plays written by the Virginia Tech killer for a writing class. The short pieces, along with other compositions, writes MacFarlane, were "like something out of a nightmare," imagining bizarre murders and exuding an obsession with... More »

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Virginia Tech Cancels Spring Football Game

Hokie sports to resume Friday with baseball game against Miami

Apr 18, 07 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer has cancelled his team’s remaining three spring practices and its annual spring game in light of the school shooting that left 33 dead. No players on the team were injured. More »

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VT Student Was at Columbine

First Columbine, now Virginia Tech: Regina Rohde has lived through both

Apr 18, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A veteran of the Columbine massacre has now relived that high school tragedy as a graduate student at Virginia Tech. Regina Rohde, a master's candidate in the department of fisheries and science, was a freshman at Columbine in 1999. "They're strikingly similar," Rohde says of the shootings. More »

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Bad Tip Led Police Off Shooter's Trail

Cops sought first victim's boyfriend after tip that he owned guns

Apr 18, 07 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A false lead in the first two shootings at Virginia Tech led to the critical two-hour delay in warning students that there was a gunman on campus, the Times reports.  After Emily Jane Hilscher was shot in her dorm, her roommate told police that her boyfriend, a student at... More »

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Virginia Tech
Shooter Was
A Student

Cho Seung-Hui was a senior;
immigrated from South Korea as child

Apr 17, 07 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Virginia Tech senior, Cho Seung-Hui, has been identified as the shooter in yesterday's massacre. Cho, from South Korea, lived in a campus dormitory; his motive, which some speculate grew from rage over a soured relationship, remains unclear. More »

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Professor Gave Life to Save Students

Teacher held off gunman while students slipped out the window

Apr 17, 07 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 77-year-old Virginia Tech professor who barred the door to his classroom against the gunman wreaking havoc down the hall sacrificed his life to save his students. Professor Liviu Librescu was teaching a class on solid mechanics when he heard gunshots. He held the door closed as students escaped through... More »

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Virginia Tech Criticized for Inaction

Two-hour lapse before warning draws outrage from students, parents

Apr 17, 07 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Virginia Tech prepares for today's memorial service for the 30 students  and two teachers killed in two shootings yesterday, the school faces mounting criticism for not doing more to alert the campus between the attacks. " "The university has blood on their hands because of their lack of... More »

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Police Know V.T. Gunman’s ID

Apr 17, 07 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police have a preliminary ID on the man who gunned down 30 people at Virginia Tech, but they aren't ready to release it, CNN reports. They won’t even confirm that the same gunman pulled the trigger at two the sites across campus, two hours apart, in the largest mass... More »

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Virginia Tech Shootings Two Hours Apart

Police haven't ruled out second shooter in killings of at least 33

Apr 16, 07 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The gunman who killed at least 32 people at Virginia Tech this morning struck twice—two shooting sprees two hours apart, on opposite sides of the campus. Two student were killed at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dorm, at about 7:15. Two hours later 30 people were stuck down... More »

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32 STUDENTS DEAD AT VA TECH

Apr 16, 07 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - At least 32 students are dead after a gunman opened fire on a Virginia Tech dormitory and classroom building this morning. The shooter is dead; two dozen other students were wounded in the attack. “This place is in a state of panic,” one student told CNN; others report... More »

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