Virginia Tech community copes with latest violent incident

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — As two Virginia Tech students face charges in the slaying of a 13-year-old girl, their classmates are repeating what they have said following other violent debacles in the last decade: The community is defined not by the horrific crimes themselves, but by the way its people pull together afterward.
Seventh-grader Nicole Madison Lovell’s stabbing death last month marks the latest in what seems a disproportionate number of high-profile slayings in a bucolic regio