Virginia's Supreme Court on Oct. 31 overturned a jury decision that found Virginia Tech University negligent in the 2007 massacre at the school in which 32 people were killed.
Emergency workers searched for survivors in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, but officials on Tuesday sharply lowered the number of deaths caused by the storm.
key witness in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal sued Pennsylvania State University on Tuesday for more than $8 million on whistleblower, defamation and misrepresentation grounds.