The Shadow
10 Years Ago
March 15, 2012
Jury Finds Tech Negligent
The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in the 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them on Wednesday. It took jurors 31/2 hours to find that university officials botched their response to April 16, 2007, massacre that left 33 people, including the gunman, dead. The jury determined in the wrongful death lawsuit against the state that the parents of Julia Pryde and Erin Peterson each deserved $4 million. The award likely will be sharply reduced because Virginia law requires such awards to be capped at $100,000.
25 Years Ago
March 15, 1997
Dr. William Ellis Recalls History of Covington
During Pre World I And Days Before Depression
Dr. William J. Ellis, second from right, was guest speaker for the March meeting of the Alleghany Highlands Genealogical Society at the Covington history of which he has been a part of and observed. With him are some of the elected and appointed officers of the society who were among the approximately 40 members and guests attending. Left to right, first row, are: Betsy Saville, treasurer; Barbara Long, historian; Dr. Ellis, and Carol Campbell, ways and means chairman. From left, second row, are: Ina Henderson, president; Donna Miller, first vice president; Marilyn Lambert, membership chairman, and Sue Lee, librarian. Other officers include Flo Entsminger, secretary, and Nola Whitt, second vice president. (Bill Lumpkin Photo)
25 Years Ago
March 15, 1997
City Policeman Chases Trooper
A city policeman spotted a speeding car north of here Tuesday and gave chase.
When the speed neared 100 miles per hour, Patrolman Mike Walters radioed back
That he didn’t think he could catch the car. He was told to give up the chase; he
Was pursuing a state policeman in an unmarked car summoned to a reported hold-up.
50 Years Ago
March 15, 1972
Congress To Raise National Debt Limit
Congress is expected to raise the $430 billion national-debt ceiling today, just as the actual debt bumps against it, but not before Democrats get off another volley against President Nixon’s economic policies. Legislation for a temporary increase, through June 30, to $450 billion, was first on the House calendar today. An effort to pass the bill Monday under speedup procedures requiring unanimous consent was blocked by one of the Democrats trying to force action on what they call loophole-closing tax reforms.
75 Years Ago
March 15, 1947
Ministers Deadlocked On Soviet Claims To German Assets
Russia and the Western powers were deadlocked today in the deputy foreign Ministers’ conference on the issue of Soviet claims to German assets and Albanian participation in the framing of the German peace treaty. Expressing a realization of the expansion needs of Alleghany Memorial Hospital, the six-man Hospital Commission last night authorized its executive committee to secure architectural plans for the addition of a third story to the present structure.
