The first crackle of gunfire shattered the Monday morning calm. It was 7:15 a.m. on the campus of Virginia Tech and an epic killing spree had just begun.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Silence fell across the Virginia Tech campus at noon Friday and bells tolled in churches nationwide in memory of the 32 victims of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech shut down its campus Monday and ordered everyone to remain inside as authorities searched for an escaped inmate suspected of killing a hospital guard and a sheriff's deputy.

Cardinals cornerback Eric Green tried to shut life out Tuesday. He didn’t turn on the television. Or scroll the Internet. Or listen to the news on the radio.

Some 800 to 1,000 Arizona State University students and other attendees gathered Thursday night for a candlelight vigil held in memory of the shooting victims in the Virginia Tech massacre.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman who carried out the massacre at Virginia Tech fired more than 170 rounds in nine minutes and died with a bullet to his head in a classroom surrounded by his victims, authorities said Wednesday.

When the news spread that a Virginia Tech student shot and killed 32 people on the college’s campus last Monday, a Korean Christian church in Tempe organized a prayer service and candlelight vigil that was held Sunday night to support the victims’ families and friends.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Thousands of Virginia Tech students and faculty filled the center of campus Monday to pay solemn tribute to the victims of last week's massacre - listening quietly as a bell tolled for the dead on the day classes resumed at the grief-stricken school.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead was described Tuesday as a sullen loner whose creative writing in English class was so disturbing that he was referred to the school's counseling service.

With an armed robber reported on the Tempe campus in December, an Arizona State University system provided text-message alerts, complemented by email blasts, Facebook posts and tweets, until the threat had passed.

MIAMI, Fla. - The opening moments were filled with just about every problem Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer feared his team would have against Cincinnati. It was merely a blip.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman blamed for the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history had previously been accused of stalking two female students at Virginia Tech and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005 after an acquaintance worried he might be suicidal, police said Wednesday.

An electric hybrid vehicle running on E85 fuel proved to be the right technological combination for a team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, which won top honors Thursday in a General Motorssponsored competition to demonstrate alternative energy vehicles.