Virginia Tech

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Still grieving and increasingly wary of the media spotlight, Virginia Tech students returned to their campus yesterday, preparing to salvage the final weeks of a semester eclipsed by violence. The scene on campus resembled move-in day in late summer, with parents helping their children carry suitcases into dormitories. There were tears and hugs goodbye. But instead of excitement for the year ahead, there was simply determination to endure and regroup in the fall.

Suspended Virginia Tech placekicker Cody Journell's future with the Hokies is in the hands of athletic director Jim Weaver. Journell pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespassing charges Monday in Montgomery County General District Court. He was sentenced to a year in jail, with all but 10 days suspended, and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. Journell has been suspended from the team since late December, when he was charged with felony breaking and entering.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - They have tried so many things to change the flow of games that they've let slip away. And they have made progress fixing some things. Yesterday, in a game in which few people gave Boston College much of a chance against Virginia Tech - especially on homecoming day at Lane Stadium - coach Frank Spaziani's team started off in good form and put together some highlight film plays in the fourth quarter. But once again, it was not enough and the result was another loss for the Eagles, who dropped a 30-14 decision to the No. 16 Hokies in an Atlantic Coast Conference contest.

The lawyer for Cody Journell says the Virginia Tech kicker has reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to a reduced charge stemming from a December incident. Journell was suspended from the football team after he was among three men charged with breaking and entering. Attorney Jimmy Turk says Journell has agreed to plead to a misdemeanor trespassing charge. Turk says the plea will spare Journell of jail time but will require him to do 100 hours of community service.

ATLANTA - Sean Glennon wore a Georgia Tech jersey. There was no doubt he was playing for Virginia Tech. Wearing a replacement jersey provided by the home team when his own disappeared, Glennon threw two long touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead No. 11 Virginia Tech to a 27-3 win over Georgia Tech last night. "It was funny," Glennon said. "That was the jersey of a school I almost went to" coming out of high school. The Hokies (7-2, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference)

Stefanie Murphy had 18 points to lead Boston College past Virginia Tech last night, 62-49, in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference women’s tournament in Greensboro, N.C. Brittany Johnson added 10 points for the seventh-seeded Eagles (16-14). They never trailed, shot 40 percent, and outrebounded Tech, 37-32, to advance to the quarterfinals today against eighth-ranked and No. 2 seed Florida State. Nikki Davis had 10 points for the 10th-seeded Hokies (15-15) who forced 16 turnovers but were on the receiving end of one of the most lopsided first-round losses in...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - The 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. Circuit Judge William Alexander later adjourned the trial for the day and told jurors to return to court Wednesday to hear closing arguments and to begin their deliberations. Attorneys for the state, the lone defendant in the civil trial, presented only a fraction of the 50 potential witnesses they had listed in court filings.

RICHMOND - The hours leading to the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history and the actions of Virginia Tech administrators will be replayed in a Christiansburg courtroom when the parents of two students slain in the April 2007 massacre press their legal effort to hold school officials accountable. During the trial that begins Monday, Attorney Robert Hall said he will call the university president, Charles Steger, along with other top university officials to explain their actions the day 33 were killed on the Blacksburg campus, including the gunman.

Darren Evans ran for a school-record 253 yards and a touchdown and Virginia Tech continued its Thursday night mastery, beating No. 23 Maryland, 23-13, in Blacksburg, Va., to stay in the thick of a wide-open Atlantic Coast Conference. The Hokies (6-3, 3-2) improved to 15-3 in Thursday night games and ended a two-game losing streak while remaining one of five teams in the ACC's Coastal Division with two conference losses. The Hokies, Virginia, and Miami are a half-game behind Georgia Tech.

Who needs an offense with a return game like Virginia Tech's? The 15th-ranked Hokies had a record-tying 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Victor Harris and an 82-yard punt return for a score from Eddie Royal in topping No. 22 Clemson, 41-23, last night at Clemson, S.C. In 21 seasons under coach Frank Beamer, the Hokies (5-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) have become college football's gold standard for special teams play. But Virginia Tech had never had both a kickoff and punt returned for scores in the same game before this one. Virginia Tech's defense was...

Boston Red Sox pitcher Mathew Price has been suspended for 50 games for a second violation for a drug of abuse under the minor league drug program. A 22-year-old right-hander from Virginia Tech taken in the eighth round of the 2010 amateur draft, Price had made one appearance this season for Class A Greenville of the South Atlantic League. He had been on the disabled list since April 5. The suspension announced Friday was the 40th this year under the minor league program, including 15 for drugs of abuse.

Local connection lifts Virginia Tech Pete Hughes is in his sixth season at the helm of the baseball program at Virginia Tech, but the Brockton native has not forgotten his Bay State roots. This season, a trio of area products - senior pitcher Andrew Aizenstadt of Norwell, sophomore leftfielder Tyler Horan of Middleborough, and sophomore southpaw pitcher Eddie Campbell - have contributed heavily for the Hokies (27-15, 8-13 Atlantic Coast Conference). Horan has a team-high 11 home runs, while Aizenstadt, a transfer from Babson...

Students returned to class Monday at Virginia Tech, the first year the school hasn't suspended instruction to mark the anniversary of a 2007 rampage that left 32 people and the gunman dead. The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Provost Mark McNamee, who chaired a committee that planned memorial events in the years after the shooting, said the return to classes reflects the lives of those slain. "Their passion for education, their desire to do good in the world, their commitment to their disciplines come through so strongly...

The suspect charged in the nation's largest school shooting since Virginia Tech changed his name a decade ago because he felt his birth name sounded like a girl's name. One Goh faces murder and attempted murder charges for a shooting rampage at Oakland's Oikos University on Monday. The 43-year-old South Korea native was born with the name Su Nam Ko. But in February 2002, he filed a petition with the Circuit Court in Fairfax County, Va., to change his name to One L. Goh. The reason he listed was that he did "not like my current name because it sounds like...

RICHMOND - Virginia Tech received a measure of vindication for its handling of a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 people dead when a judge ruled that federal education officials were wrong to conclude the university's response to the tragedy violated federal law. In a ruling that became available Friday, Administrative Judge Ernest Canellos dismissed a $55,000 fine against the Blacksburg school and determined that the university officials' actions...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - The state is giving strong signals that it will appeal a jury's decision that Virginia Tech officials were negligent in their actions leading up to the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The verdict in the wrongful death lawsuit is the latest of three decisions that have faulted the university for its actions on April 16, 2007, when it hesitated in letting students know of a gunman who ultimately fatally shot 32 people on campus before killing himself.

A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of two Virginia Tech students killed during a campus rampage nearly five years ago is headed to trial in Christiansburg. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in Montgomery County Circuit Court at a trial where university officials will be asked to defend their actions April 16, 2007, when a student gunman killed 32 people, then himself. The lawsuit was brought by the parents of Julia K. Pryde and Erin N. Peterson, two Tech students killed in the deadliest shooting spree in modern U.S. history.

Virginia Tech says it acted appropriately in alerting the campus that bloody spring day in 2007 during what turned out to be the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The government disagrees and has levied $55,000 in fines, contending the school was too slow in notifying students, faculty and staff and therefore in violation of a federal law requiring timely warnings when there are safety threats. The university gets a chance Wednesday to begin making its case before an Education Department administrative judge, Ernest C. Canellos, in hopes of...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - The 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. Circuit Judge William Alexander later adjourned the trial for the day and told jurors to return to court Wednesday to hear closing arguments and to begin their deliberations. Attorneys for the state, the lone defendant in the civil trial, presented only a fraction of the 50 potential witnesses they had listed in court filings.

Robert Brown pulled up for a little 10-foot bank shot that wasn't even close, the ball clanking off the side of the rim as his shoulders slumped. Virginia Tech hustled for the offensive rebound, setting up Erick Green for a drive to the hoop. The ball spun all the way around the iron — and out. Green broke into a flabbergasted smile as he headed the other way. Nothing, it seemed, would go in for the Hokies on this night. Tyler Thornton scored a career-best 13 points, Austin Rivers hustled for a clinching three-point play and sixth-ranked Duke held on for a 60-56...