September 03, 2009

FBI joins investigation into Virginia Tech students’ deaths

WSLS has learned that the FBI is assisting the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in their investigation of the two Virginia Tech students found killed in the Caldwell Fields area of the county one week ago today.

Leads elusive in slain Lynchburg teens case

A week after the bodies of two Lynchburg-area teens were discovered in Montgomery County, authorities still are searching for leads in the case.


August 30, 2009

Mourners gather at church for teens’ funerals in Lynchburg

12:30 UPDATE—A steady stream of mourners filed into Heritage Baptist Church just after noon today for the funeral services this afternoon for the Lynchburg-area teens slain in Montgomery County last week.


August 27, 2009

UPDATE: Funerals to be held Monday for Tech students

Back-to-back services will be held Monday for the Lynchburg-area teens found shot dead this week at a Montgomery County campground.


August 21, 2009

2 families say Cho records challenge Virginia Tech’s claims

Long-missing mental-health records of Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho challenge the university’s claim that it handled him appropriately at its counseling center, according to families for two students killed by Cho.


August 20, 2009

Opinions differed on Virginia Tech shooter’s dangerousness

The last time the Virginia Tech mental-health center apparently saw Seung-Hui Cho was the day after a magistrate ordered him detained as a potential danger to himself and others.


August 19, 2009

Counselor who took Cho records says he didn’t use them

A former Virginia Tech counseling director says the mental-health records that he inadvertently took contained triage forms, a Post-it note and an e-mail on student gunman Seung-Hui Cho.


August 12, 2009

Va. Tech adds computer software for emergency alerts

Virginia Tech has expanded its emergency notification system with a software application that connects it to supported computers on the Internet.


July 30, 2009

Kaine: Some Va. Tech kin don’t want massacre panel renewed

Gov.Timothy M. Kaine said today that not all of the relatives of the 32 people slain at Virginia Tech want the panel that reviewed the massacre reconvened.


July 28, 2009

UPDATED: Virginia Tech families want shooting probe reopened

Relatives of Virginia Tech victims are asking the state to reopen its investigation of the 2007 mass shootings at the school.

Virginia Tech study says texting while driving even more dangerous

Texting while driving increases the risk of a crash much more than previous studies have concluded with motorists taking their eyes off the road longer than they do when talking or listening on their cell phones, a safety research institute said yesterday.


July 27, 2009

Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer responds to Vick’s reinstatement

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer thinks this is just the next step in Michael Vick’s eventual success story.

Greg Boone’s transition from quarterback to tight end is paying off

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A short time ago, Greg Boone identified himself as a quarterback only. Even after making the switch to tight end in the fall of 2006, the Virginia Tech senior found it hard to accept his career as a passer was likely over.


July 26, 2009

Virginia Tech football players are confident, not boastful

Virginia Tech’s players could have strut into the conference room at the Grandover Resort and Conference Center on Sunday and proclaimed to everybody in attendance at the ACC’s Kickoff media gathering that they were still champions of the league.


July 23, 2009

UPDATED: Missing Cho records removed by mistake, ex-official says

The former Virginia Tech official who had Seung-Hui Cho’s mental health records in his home said he had not known he had taken the documents until a few days ago.

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