Virginia state police are confirming this morning at a press conference that the gunman at yesterday's shootings at Virginia Tech in fact took his own life, but have yet to give his or her name or other identifying information just yet.
Mundane mayhem isn't usually our fancy until it involves an organized, $1 million crime ring of waiters and waitresses in New York City's best (more on that later) steakhouses or someone stealing Marc Jacobs's entire spring collection.
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