By Austin Wright RICHMOND A complete lockdown of the Virginia Tech campus during the 2007 shootings that left 3 2 people plus the gunman dead would have been impossible, George Mason University Chief of Police Michael Lynch said Monday.

By SUE LINDSEY ROANOKE Virginia Tech should release all of its records in the April 2007 campus shootings that left 33 people dead so that others can learn from the events, family members of victims said Thursday. University officials said Wednesday that they were partially reversing their decision to withhold certain documents related to the shooting rampage by student Seung-Hui Cho.

No one can blame Virginia Tech officials for wanting to put the horror of April 16, 2007, behind them. And no one - no sane person, anyway - could blame administrators there for failing to predict that a troubled kid would morph into a raging homicidal maniac who would fatally shoot 32 people and then kill himself. It was simply beyond imagining.

BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech says some records about the April 2007 campus shootings that left 31 people dead will remain secret.

RICHMOND Virginia will pay $100,000 to each of the families of 24 of the 32 people killed during the Virginia Tech shooting massacre last year, under the terms of a settlement approved by a Richmond Circuit Court judge Tuesday.

RICHMOND Financial settlements in the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings negotiated between the state and many of the families of victims are expected to be reviewed today by a Richmond Circuit Court judge. State officials confirmed Monday that today's 2 p.m. court hearing is a step toward reaching a resolution with the families of people killed, according to Attorney General Bob McDonnell's office.

Virginia Tech professor has been named director of a peace center to be located in Norris Hall, the university building where his wife and 29 others were killed last year.

Forty-eight victims of the Virginia Tech shootings or their families have preserved their rights to sue the state by filing notices within one year, the attorney general’s office reports. A disturbed senior shot and killed 32 students and faculty, and then himself, on April 16, 2007.

A quilt, representing each of the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech one year ago, has been presented to the State Police division headquarters at which many troopers who responded to the massacre are based. Nine women from four states, including Virginia, created the quilt, said Dorothy Bernstein, a State Police spokeswoman.

A sampling of statements from Virginia and around the country on the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings: Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine “On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech University suffered a terrible tragedy. Today, my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families and the entire Virginia Tech community.