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"We never had any plans to go to the US. Our brother has been there for the last 30 years but we never found it necessary to visit him. It was he who visited us and our parents, not the other way around. But it is so unfortunate that we are going to his house for the first time -- after his death, and to see his dead body and..." murdered Professor G V Loganathan's brother Senguttavelvan said, trying to control his emotions. Professor Loganathan was killed on Monday at the Virginia Tech campus, along with 32 others, when a...

Nearly two years earlier,( Nikki ) Giovanni had stood up to Cho Seung-Hui ... He wore sunglasses to class and pulled his maroon knit cap down low over his forehead. When she tried to get him to participate in class discussion, his answer was silence. "Sometimes, students try to intimidate you," ... "And I just assumed that he was trying to assert himself." But then female students began complaining about Cho. About five weeks into the semester, students told Giovanni that Cho was taking photographs of their legs and knees under the desks with his cell phone. She told him...

Evangelist Franklin Graham said Cho Seung-Hui, the killer at Virginia Tech University, was "filled with evil,” and that Satan is responsible for Monday’s mass killings of 32 people at the Blacksburg, Va., campus. Appearing as a guest Wednesday on Fox News Channel, Graham said the need for healing is great in a community shattered by a madman’s shooting rampage. "There is a big spiritual need here,” Graham said. "Kids are questioning, ‘Did God abandon us? Why did God allow this to happen?’ . . . They need love, they need our prayers . . . They need a touch from...

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. William H. King, Lutheran campus pastor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Va., and staff of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), delivered the Christian message April 17 at the Virginia Tech Convocation where students, faculty and others of the community gathered to remember the victims of yesterday's shooting on campus. According to the Virginia Tech Web site, at least 33 people died including the gunman. "We're gathered this afternoon for many purposes. To weep for lost friends and families, to mourn our lost innocence, to walk forward in the...

BLACKSBURG: Before a berserk killer's bullet found her in a classroom at Virginia Tech, Mumbai girl Minal Panchal looked forward to following her father's footsteps in the world of architecture. The Harry Potter fan, who loved cricket as well as Indian and Chinese cuisines, was confirmed dead a full 24 hours after the shooting spree by South Korean Cho Seung-Hui that killed 32 people on Monday. Her profile describes her as a fan of dry, sarcastic humour, sketching and cricket in the social networking site Orkut. The body of the 26-year-old is likely to be handed over to her family...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Families in India and Israel are mourning two professors among the 32 people killed in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. The son of 76-yar-old Liviu Librescu , an engineering science and mathematics lecturer, says his father tried to stop the gunman from entering his classroom by blocking the door before he was fatally shot. Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from Tel Aviv, Israel, that his father immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978 and then moved to Virginia in 1985 for his sabbatical, but had stayed since then. Joe Librescu himself studied at...

“Who is this Asian man? Why is he being cuffed?” “Who is this man? Why is he being constrained? Is he still alive?”

_____________________________________________________________ This visitation of death against Virginia Tech University this week is a direct result of gun laws banning weapons within 1,000 feet of a school -- the victim disarmament zone is as advertised once more. Sure the shooter is to blame, but Congress shares the blame not only for shootings, but for any instance of disarming citizens who could have resisted with all legal authority and use of force. Why obfuscate or discourage this legal authority? We’ll never keep weapons – knifes, bare hands, brute force and guns – out of the hands of the criminal, but we sure...

What is the most effective way to stop mass murders like the shootings at Virginia Tech? Increase gun control Increase police presence Metal detectors and guards Reduce media violence Train and arm civilians

Well, I'm listening to all the calls for some sort of gun-control that will save us from the next VaTech style shooting and my mind drifted to Israel. The Israelis suffer a lot more suicide bombings that we do VaTech type massacres; and they're a lot smaller country too. So they've obviously got a big problem on their hands. And the solution hit me. All they have to do is ban suicide bomb belts. ML/NJ

LAREDO, Texas (AP) - Sen. John McCain says the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech does not change his view that the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to carry a weapon. "We have to look at what happened here, but it doesn't change my views on the Second Amendment, except to make sure that these kinds of weapons don't fall into the hands of bad people," McCain said Monday in response to a question. The Arizona Republican, who was campaigning in this Texas-Mexico border city, said he didn't know the details of the attacks at Virginia Tech. "I do believe in...

VIRGINIA: A gunman massacred 33 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history before the university could figure out what was going on and get the warning out to students. The bloodbath on Monday ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with tragedy, perhaps forever. G V Loganathan, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who graduated from IIT Kanpur and completed his PhD from Purdue University, was killed in the shootout. An Indian student, Minal Panchal, was also allegedly...

Shocking details were revealed Thursday in the investigation of Anthony LaCalamita, a man who police say went to his former employer's office on Monday and shot three people, killing one of them. Experts close to the investigation told Local 4 that LaCalamita, 38, was fired from his job because a pimp showed up at his office at Gordon Advisors. Local 4 sources said a so-called pimp allegedly came to LaCalamita's office to collect a debt he owed on a prostitute.

Police Tuesday identified the gunman accused in Monday night’s Trolley Square shooting as Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee who lived in Salt Lake City... But is he Muslim? Will they ever say? Time to renew your concealed carry permits! The US west may have been safe, but thanks to the diversity lottery and the settlement of "refugees" from places where many of these refugees are the cause of their own problems, we could see more of this crap.

The 18-year-old man who shot and killed at least five people Monday night at Trolley Square has been identified as Solejman Talovic, a Bosnian refugee who lived in Salt Lake City. Little additional information was released about Talovic. The Bosnian community, which numbers about 3,000 in Utah, planned a press conference later this afternoon. Talovic parked his car in the west parking lot and walked into the mall, encountering two people, whom he shot. Then he walked further into the mall and shot a woman, said Police Chief Chris Burbank. He then walked to a gift shop and shot five...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A meeting in a chat room has led to a woman bound and strangled and two deaths in Albuquerque. Several hours after they started, police still continue to work this strange case. A case where two people are dead and likely no one will end up behind bars. Medical examiners haul two bodies away from Blake's Cr. in southwest Albuquerque Sunday evening. One man was shot to death and the other was a female was bound, and suffered from suffocation. This is a bizarre case even for law enforcement veteran John Walsh. "This is one I have...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Gunfire broke out between two groups at a massive Halloween street party in the city's Castro district, wounding at least 10 people, including innocent bystanders, police said Wednesday. The shooting began around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday as authorities were dispersing thousands of revelers under a curfew aimed at controlling the traditionally raucous party. Two people were detained for questioning, but no one had been arrested early Wednesday, police Capt. Al Casciato said. He said two groups of people had gotten into an altercation when the shooting began. One victim was listed in critical condition at San Francisco...

A Tale of Three Cities Last Thursday evening in Decatur, Alabama, I had the occasion to hear Alabama Governor Bob Riley address a banquet room full of outdoor writers. The occasion was the 42nd Annual Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA) Fall Conference. It wasn't expected to be the place where a governor running for reelection would be expected to announce a major initiative or political decision. Honestly, I didn't even expect too-much in the way of a typical political stemwinder speech. Riley's not known for firebrand rhetoric or high-pressure politicking, and he kept to that low-key delivery. Riley did, however,...

AMISH families in mournful parades of horse-drawn buggies took part in funerals today for four schoolgirl victims of a gunman who went on a sexual fantasy-fuelled killing rampage at their school. As four of the five young girls killed on Monday were laid to rest, tales of selfless heroism emerged of one victim who reportedly asked killer Charles Roberts to "shoot me first," to save her classmates. But the grief looked set to deepen, as US media reports said one critically wounded schoolgirl had been taken off life support in hospital and brought back to her spartan Pennsylvania home to...

A Tibetan nun in her mid twenties was shot dead by Chinese border patrols and at least one other Tibetan may have been killed while on their way into exile in Nepal on the Nangpa pass five days ago, according to eyewitness reports. Tibetans traveling with the nun were unable to bring her body, with evident wounds from several rounds of bullets, with them because they feared arrest before entering Nepalese territory. There are reports that up to seven more Tibetans may have been killed after the group was fired upon by Chinese armed personnel, but these could not be...