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  • Parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. An official with knowledge of Friday's shooting said 27 people were dead, including 18 children. It was the worst school shooting in the country's history. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

    Major shooting incidents at schools in recent years

    A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 27 people, including 18 children on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others.

  • Democratic candidate for the US Senate seat from Virginia, former Gov. Tim Kaine, left, listens as Republican candidate, former Sen. George Allen, right, speaks during a debate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

    In final debate, Kaine, Allen exchange biggest shots

    George Allen and Tim Kaine, both former governors of Virginia, immediately tossed away their gloves in the final debate in their closely watched U.S. Senate race, throwing haymakers and lobbing charges that each is an immutable partisan and misguided on the economy, spending, and defense.

  • Seung-Hui Cho (AP Photo/Virginia State Police)

    Defense rests in Va. Tech wrongful-death trial

    he state rested Tuesday after witnesses in a wrongful-death lawsuit testified that Virginia Tech officials acted properly on April 16, 2007, when a lone gunman killed 32 on the Blacksburg campus and then himself.

  • Ross Truett Ashley (Virginia State Police)

    Va. Tech gunman called quiet, went to small school

    The man who authorities say killed a Virginia Tech police officer was described as a typical college student in many ways, making it difficult to understand why he would commit an armed robbery and then, apparently at random, target the patrolman before killing himself.

  • ** FILE ** Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer speaks during a news conference. (AP Photo/Hans Deryk)

    Decision to keep Beamer proved to be the right call

    Dave Braine walked into Burruss Hall that Monday morning ready to lobby for a football coach who had few allies. It was a decision Braine knew could end up costing him his own job. Two days earlier, Virginia Tech finished the 1992 season 2-8-1 by losing to rival Virginia for the fifth time in six chances under Frank Beamer.

  • ** FILE ** Peddrew-Yates Residence Hall, near Dietrick Dining Center, is locked down on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, on the Virginia Tech Campus in Blacksburg, Va., after three youths attending a summer camp on Virginia Tech's campus said they saw a man outside New Residence Hall East "holding what may have been a handgun," the university said. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Rebecca Barnett)

    Report of gunman locks down Va. Tech campus

    The Virginia Tech campus was brought to a panicked standstill Thursday as police investigated a report that a possible gunman had been spotted walking across school grounds.

  • ** FILE ** Peddrew-Yates Residence Hall, near Dietrick Dining Center, is locked down on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, on the Virginia Tech Campus in Blacksburg, Va., after three youths attending a summer camp on Virginia Tech's campus said they saw a man outside New Residence Hall East "holding what may have been a handgun," the university said. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Rebecca Barnett)

    Virginia Tech reports gunman on campus

    Virginia Tech is reporting a gunman on campus.

  • Sports Briefs

    Joe Ragland's layup with 2.6 seconds left in overtime lifted Wichita State to a 79-76 victory over Virginia Tech in the second round of the NIT on Sunday.

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