At VCU event, officials say lockdowns and alerts can be impractical at colleges

Virginia Tech says it will eventually let the public see some records of, that school leader had said they would keep private.

Four reporters looked at 20,000 documents in two days

42 families accepted an $11 million deal with the state

E-mails show some VT officials locked down their offices at least 20 minutes before Seung-Hui Cho killed 30 people in Norris Hall, and before a warning about the West AJ murders was sent out

The peace center will be in a second-floor classroom wing of Norris Hall

“Officers from the department entered Norris Hall that day while shots were still being fired. Officers chose to run toward the gunfire and an unknown risk without regard for their own safety. Many had no time to put on protective gear such as bulletproof vests,” the commendation for the department read.

Eric Thompson, the owner of TGSCOM Inc., says he believes he has, “A special responsibility to do all he can to try to prevent further loss of life.”

It’s a slow walk around the April 16th memorial on the Virginia Tech Drillfield – one with hugs and tears.

As the sun fades on this day of remembrance, tiny flickering lights take it’s place. 

Candlelight vigil honors Virginia Tech victims

More than one hundred people protested gun laws by holding a lie-in for three minutes-- the amount of time it takes a person to buy a gun without a background check.

Virginia Tech students and the Hokie community take part in a number of events scheduled throughout campus in honor of those who lost their lives. 

A public service campaign to honor the memories of those killed on April 16th exceeds its orginal goal

On a sun drenched drillfield before a sea of orange and maroon, the Virginia Tech family remembered what happened on year ago and the sorrow that followed.

Read the statement from Illinois Senator, and Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech tragedy

Read the statement from Gov. Tim Kaine (D) on the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech tragedy

Read what Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell has to say about the one year anniversary of the April 16th tragedy

Read the statement from former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen (R) about the one year anniversary of the April 16th tragedy

Read what Arizona Senator John McCain (R) has to say about the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech tragedy

Read what Virginia’s junior U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D) has to say about the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech tragedy

More than sadness, there was a sense of respect, and maybe confusion, as hundreds of people gathered in a suburb of Tel Aviv to pay respect to a man who had lost his life saving others.

Comments from today’s ceremony at Virginia Tech

Mourners stood with heads bowed, some wiping away tears. Others locked arms as the accomplishments of each of the 32 echoed across the Drillfield.

Read what was said about each of the 32 students and faculty we lost on April 16th, at this morning’s memorial ceremony

LIVE blog from Virginia Tech

Share your comments about April 16th. How do you think Virginia Tech has changed? What will you take away from this anniversary?

A group of quilters from Virginia, and others from states like Wisconsin, Illinois, and Pennsylvania made it, according to troopers.  A member of the group is the sister of a State Police Captain in Salem.

He will order state flags flown at half-staff for the day and asks for a statewide moment of silence at noon followed by a statewide tolling of bells

For more than six months, Jeff Reid didn’t look at the photographs he took in the days following the shootings at Virginia Tech.  He just saved the digital images and stored them until he heard that Tech was looking for images of the university community moving forward in the wake of tragedy.