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WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Northern Virginia Community College was on lockdown yesterday as SWAT teams swarmed the campus, after a student, Jason Michael Hamilton, opened fire in a classroom with a high-powered rifle, according to police.

Hamilton did not hit anyone and no injuries were reported following the afternoon shooting at the school's Woodbridge campus, about 25 miles south of Washington, D.C.

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DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VA - Virginia State Police (VSP) have held a news briefing to provide details on this morning's crash involving a tour bus for singer Miley Cyrus.

The accident happened on I-85 south near mile marker 56 in Dinwiddie County, about 45-minutes south of Richmond, Va. Police said 10 people were on board the bus when it went off the road and overturned. The singer was not on board and is not at the scene of the accident.

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NEW YORK - Charlene Lugar, wife of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after hitting a parked car in northern Virginia.

Fairfax County Police say an officer stopped 76-year-old Charlene Lugar Wednesday evening at a McLean intersection after seeing damage to her car and smoke coming from the hood. Police later determined that she also hit an unattended parked car about two miles away from the traffic stop.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A weekend-long search, aided by an army of volunteers and more reward money, is beginning Friday in a renewed effort to find 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington.

Harrington's parents, saying "we just want our daughter back," have added $100,000 of their own money to the Crime Stoppers reward for information leading to Morgan, and the band Metallica has also donated $50,000 to the reward fund.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - As Morgan Harrington's family releases new photographs of the missing Virginia Tech student, police are hoping a timeline of when and where the 20-year-old was last seen will help jog the memory of anyone who can provide clues to her whereabouts.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The parents of Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington, who disappeared outside a Metallica concert, said Tuesday they fear she is the victim of foul play.

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ROANOKE, Va. - The search for 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington, the Virginia Tech student missing since she became separated from her friends at a Metallica concert Saturday, is being treated as a criminal investigation, police said Wednesday.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. It's been four days and still no sign of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington.

A desperate search is still underway for Harrington, who was last seen near the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va., at a Metallica concert on Oct. 17.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Police searched Tuesday for a Virginia Tech student, Morgan Dana Harrington, who hasn't been seen since got separated from friends at a Metallica concert Saturday.

Harrington, 20, was last seen near the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va.

Her parents said they talk to her every day and her disappearance is very out of character.

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BRIDGEVILLE, PA - As if the case wasn't already disturbing enough...

The gunman who killed three women and wounded nine others at a Pittsburgh-area health club before killing himself bought accessories for a handgun from the same dealer that sold a gun to the Virginia Tech shooter.

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