By Tonia Moxley ROCKY MOUNT After weeks of dueling motions, Judge William Alexander is expected next week to reduce multimillion-dollar jury awards brought against the state for Virginia Tech's handling of the April 16, 2007, shootings.

By Zinie Chen Sampson BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech's resilience in the face of violence on its campus, including the 2007 massacre that left 33 dead, was highlighted Friday by first lady Michelle Obama in a commencement speech.

By Tonia Moxley BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech graduates, please, don't even try to sneak that flask into Lane Stadium under your commencement robe Friday. And staying out late tonight might be a bad idea, too. The next day will start early, if you want to walk in the noontime graduation ceremony.

Once word got out Tuesday that Dorian Finney-Smith intends to transfer from Virginia Tech, his mother's phone started ringing nonstop. Desiree Finney knew the calls were probably from reporters, and maybe college coaches, trying to verify the news. "Yes, we are leaving," she said.

By Tonia Moxley BLACKSBURG A dispute over $55,000 in U.S. Department of Education fines levied against Virginia Tech for its response to the April 16, 2007, campus shootings has gone to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

By Steve Szkotak RICHMOND State attorneys have asked a judge to set aside a negligence verdict returned by jurors who concluded Virginia Tech officials waited too long to alert the campus of the first shootings in the April 16, 2007, massacre that left 33 dead.

By Jeff Sturgeon ROCKY MOUNT  A lawyer for the families of two Virginia Tech students shot to death on campus five years ago persuaded a judge Tuesday to permit an inquiry into what state insurance policies might exist to pay damages.

RICHMOND A bell on Virginia's Capitol Square sounded 32 times at 9:43 a.m. to mark the fifth anniversary of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech. There was no formal memorial Monday at the Capitol Bell Tower in Richmond as the bell tolled at the moment five years ago when a gunman began the deadliest chapter of his rampage on Tech's Blacksburg campus at Norris Hall.

BLACKSBURG Students were headed to class today at Virginia Tech, the first year the school hasn't suspended instruction to mark the anniversary of a 2007 rampage that left 32 people and the gunman dead. The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

By Lerone Graham BLACKSBURG A Virginia Tech junior died this week while studying abroad in Switzerland, the university announced today. John B. "J.J." Stinson, 20, of Alexandria, died in Riva San Vitale. Authorities are investigating his death, which thus far indicates no signs of foul play, according to a university statement.