From Bob Herbert, San Jose Mercury News:
The police chief says there were no options.
“The student became violent,” said Frank Mercurio, the no-nonsense chief of the Avon Park police. “She was yelling, screaming - just being uncontrollable. Defiant.”
At the sight of the two officers, Mercurio said, Desre’e  “tried to take flight.”
She went under a table. One [...]

Father Jake Stops the World has a explanation of how candidates for Archbishop are chosen, and his guest poster Trinity Matthew gives an overview of the candidates. Archbiship Andrew Hutchinson is retiring, the 13th Canadian Primate election will be held June 22nd during the triennial General Synod.

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More from ABC news including arial photos on Australia’s worst drought on record.
The Independent

Jordon and Wendy Cooper, working with the Salvation Army in Saskatoon are standing together with other volunteers to provide shelter and food for evacuees from serious flooding in the northern part of the province.
Hundreds are being sheltered in the Cosmo Civic Centre.
16 towns and communities have declared or may declare states of emergencies. In some areas the flooding has been [...]

No arrests have been made in the April 17th attack of a Pakistan journalist in Mississauga.
35 year old  Jawaad Faizi who writes for Pak_izah intirnashinal=Pakeeza international (the largest Urdu language paper in North America) was treated and released after 2 men  upset with his work approached his car, began yelling and smashing his windows. They fled when they saw him dailing [...]

While the slaughter at Virginia Tech dominates North American news coverage, four bombs in Baghdad have killed at least 157 and injured scores of people today. Numbers are still coming in.
500 civilians have died in the past week. (Iraq Body Count)
…a parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at the Sadriyah market in a [...]

Students
Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, from Saugus, Massachusetts
Brian Bluhm, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa 
Ryan Clark, 22, from Martinez, Georgia
Austin Cloyd, from Blacksburg, Virginia
Matthew Gwaltney, from Chester, Virginia
Emily J. Hilscher, 19, from Woodville Virginia
Caitlin Hammaren, 19, from Westtown, New York
Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Rachael Elizabeth Hill, 18, from Richmond, Virginia
Matthew La Porte, 20, from Dumont, New Jersey
Jarrett Lane, from Narrows, [...]

While Poynter Online is a resource for journalists, it is also a good resource for bloggers struggling to post fast breaking and tragic events.
While every point may have some flexibility for bloggers (and particularly for the thousands of Virgina Tech community who poured online to connect up) take what you will. These guidelines are especially important [...]