World & Nation
Two former Virginia Tech students were indicted Tuesday in the slaying of a seventh-grade girl who was found dead last January days after authorities say she sneaked out of her window to rendezvous with the older teens, a county prosecutor said.
July 26, 2016
Archives
Iona takes a break
July 1, 2009
Two Virginia Tech students carefully planned the kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl, arranging a predawn rendezvous online after buying cleaning supplies and a shovel at separate Wal-Mart stores, a prosecutor alleged Thursday.
Feb. 4, 2016
Books
Among this year’s crop of children’s fantasy books, there are, as usual, a few that are well worth their price--what we used to call “keepers.”
Dec. 17, 1989
Music
1 They have a singing drummer.
Oct. 17, 2002
Only 20, Tikaram has written two good chapters now on how to be young, sensitive and deep without sounding arch, prissy and cloying.
Feb. 11, 1990
California
Second-grader Natalie Endjilian edged behind her classmates to escape the squat billy goat straining at its leash to sniff the youngster’s flowered skirt.
April 27, 1994
On page 14 of “Natalie on the Street,” Ann Nietzke writes: “Many women, especially unmarried women, have at least considered the fact that we live only a step or two or three away from the streets ourselves and that in America the older we get the more precarious our positions become.”
Dec. 29, 1994
Two Virginia Tech students charged in the death of a 13-year-old girl who apparently climbed out her bedroom window appeared in court on Monday, but the events that led to the girl’s killing remained a mystery.
Feb. 1, 2016
Sports
Eddie Frierson is passionate about his portrayal of baseball’s Christy Mathewson, who played from 1900 to 1916.
March 21, 1996