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Governors Highway Safety Assoc. backs texting ban

AP News 82 days ago

In reversal, highway safety association supports state laws against texting behind the wheel The national association representing state highway safety officials on Sunday threw its support behind a growing movement to ban text messaging by drivers, reversing its previous stand. The Governors ...

Friends, minister mourn 2 slain Va. Tech students

AP News 85 days ago

Friends, minister mourn 2 Virginia Tech students slain at national forest; patrols stepped up Authorities stepped up patrols Friday near an area of Jefferson National Forest where a Virginia Tech couple described by their minister as "godly young people" were found slain. ...

No charges in disappearance of Va. Tech records

AP News 92 days ago

Prosecutor: Ex-counseling chief faces no charges for taking Va. Tech gunman's mental records The former director of Virginia Tech's counseling center will not face criminal charges for taking the Virginia Tech gunman's mental health records. Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Brad Finch said ...

Social network security: Social anxiety

SC Magazine 105 days ago

Users of social networking sites are feeling the stress of cybercrooks, says Virginia Tech's Randy Marchany. Dan Kaplan investigates. After a deranged student's shooting rampage killed 32 classmates on a spring morning two years ago at Virginia Tech University, one of Randy ...

Wis. dealer sold gun extras to health club shooter

AP News 105 days ago

Dealer who sold guns or accessories to 3 mass shooters says sales legal, company did no wrong An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club ...

Administration to examine distracted driving

AP News 109 days ago

Obama administration to convene safety summit on texting, distracted driving Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday he will convene a summit of experts to figure out what to do about driver cell phone use and texting, practices that studies — and a ...

LaHood calls summit on texting, distracted driving

AP News 109 days ago

Obama administration to convene safety summit on texting, distracted driving Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday he will convene a summit of experts to figure out what to do about driver cell phone use and texting, practices that studies — and a ...

20 blind people test drive student-designed car

AP News 111 days ago

20 blind people are able to test drive dune buggy designed by Va. Tech students Several blind people were able to get behind the wheel of a new high-tech vehicle designed by Virginia Tech engineering students. Twenty blind people took turns maneuvering ...

New Insight into Cell Phone Use and Driving Distraction

consumeraffairs.com 113 days ago

Study separates fact from myth Several large-scale, naturalistic driving studies (using sophisticated cameras and instrumentation in participants' personal vehicles) by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) provide a clear picture of driver distraction and cell phone use under real-world driving conditions. And ...

Gov: Some Va. Tech kin don't want panel renewed

AP News 114 days ago

Gov says some kin of Va Tech shooting victims don't want state review panel renewed Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine says not all relatives of the 32 people slain at Virginia Tech want a state panel that reviewed the massacre reconvened. Kaine said ...

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