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Apr 17, 2007 8:36 AM CDT

Virginia Tech Criticized for Inaction

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

(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...

Police Know V.T. Gunman’s ID

Apr 17, 2007 8:34 AM CDT

Police Know V.T. Gunman’s ID

(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...

32 STUDENTS DEAD AT VA TECH

Apr 16, 2007 2:37 PM CDT

32 STUDENTS DEAD AT VA TECH

(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...

Urbina Gets
14 Years

Mar 28, 2007 4:57 PM CDT

Urbina Gets 14 Years

Former MLB pitcher Ugueth Urbina guilty of attempted murder in Venezuela

(Newser) - All-star pitcher Ugueth Urbina, who's been in a Venezuelan jail for a year and a half awaiting trial for attempted murder, has been convicted and sentenced to 14 years. He was also found guilty of illegal deprivation of liberty and unlawfully taking justice into his own hands in a...

Cricket Coach Murdered

Mar 23, 2007 8:42 AM CDT

Cricket Coach Murdered

Woolmer now said to be strangled, after team's surprising loss

(Newser) - The death of Bob Woolmer, the English-born Pakistani cricket coach, was ruled a murder yesterday, roiling the sedate world of international cricket with a crime investigators call “extraordinary and evil.” When Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica last Sunday, it was thought he...

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