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Virginia gunman's mental health papers found

World
2009-7-23

MISSING mental health records of Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-hui have been discovered in the home of the university clinic's former director, according to a memo obtained yesterday. Cho killed 32 people on...

Chinese student charged with murder after horror on campus

World
2009-1-24

A CHINESE student has been charged with murder in the United States after the horrific killing of a fellow student from Beijing. Alone and in a new country, graduate student Yang Xin had reached out to other Chinese...

Police say Chinese woman slain at Virginia Tech was decapitated, knew attacker

World
2009-1-23

A GRADUATE student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday. Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after...

Virginia Tech grad student stabbed to death on campus

World
2009-1-22

A female student was stabbed to death last night on Virginia Tech's campus, triggering a crisis alert system that was revamped after a deadly mass shooting there in 2007. Students were warned in an electronic...

Shark's virgin birth excites scientists

World
2008-10-11

SCIENTISTS have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark. In a study reported yesterday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic...

US town in grip of 'lion mania'

World
2008-9-20

LIKE some other residents of the small town of Blackstone, Virginia, Mary Elizabeth Goodwyn doesn't go outside after dark anymore. Goodwyn, 81, used to welcome the dusk under a red maple tree in her front yard...

Mom says child's walkie-talkie picks up trashy trucker talk, wants toy recalled

Odd
2008-8-8

A WESTt Virginia mother is seeking the recall of a popular walkie-talkie, a form of two-way radio ,after her 3-year-old's toy apparently intercepted a profanity-laced conversation between truckers about drugs and...

Virginia executes 100th inmate since 1976 ruling

World
2008-6-26

VIRGINIA put a convicted murderer to death by lethal injection yesterday, the 100th person executed by the state since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Robert Stacy Yarbrough, 30, who...

3 tornadoes rip through Virginia, hurt hundreds

World
2008-4-29

THREE tornadoes ripped through Virginia State in the United States, with one hop-scotching across the southeastern part of the state and leaving behind a 40-kilometer trail of gutted homes, tossed cars and more than...

Guns on campus

World
2008-4-26

THE online weapons dealer who sold one of the guns used in the Virginia Tech university shootings that left 33 dead visited the campus, a decision the school's spokesman called "terribly offensive." Dealer Eric...