A proposed state settlement would offer the families of the 32 people killed last April at Virginia Tech about $100,000 each, The Virginian-Pilot reported. The newspaper said that the proposal, which is intended to head off lawsuits and is still being negotiated, would also pay medical and counseling expenses for the families and surviving victims of the tragedy, in which a gunman killed two students in a dormitory and 30 students and professors in a classroom building.
The families have until Monday to decide whether to accept the settlement, the newspaper reported. In exchange, they would give up the right to sue the state, the university, the City of Blacksburg, Va., and other entities. —Charles Huckabee
