Student slain while attacking UNCC gunman gets hero's send-off

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina college student slain while confronting a gunman in his classroom was being given a hero's send-off Thursday as his body is taken back to his hometown with a police escort.Police motorcycles and other vehicles with blue lights flashing quickly left a funeral home and started their 150-mile journey west Thursday morning from Riley Howell's college home in Charlotte to his mountain hometown of Waynesville.Traffic stopped along busy, four-lane Charlotte