Massacre university fined

Virginia Tech University must pay the maximum $55,000 (€39,000) fine for breaking the law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage, but will not lose government aid, the US Department of Education said.

Department chiefs told the school that the sanction should have been greater for its slow response to the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, when student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and staff, then himself.