
Mass shootings: The vicious cycle fueled by America’s toxic cult of violence
Surely there’s more to these shootings than just easy access to weapons and mental illness.

Surely there’s more to these shootings than just easy access to weapons and mental illness.

The good guy with a gun theory, tragically, didn’t work, again, in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman was able to shoot himself past several police officers on his way inside an elementary school on Tuesday morning, before shooting and killing 21 people, including 19 students.

A federal jury has convicted three members of a Midlothian household on charges pertaining to forced labor.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has announced the members of the new Commission to Combat Antisemitism, which will make recommendations to the governor and General Assembly with the goal of identifying ways to reverse increasing antisemitic incidents in the Commonwealth.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan announced this week the launch of a new Office of Environmental Justice within the Justice Department.

Greene County Commissioner of the Revenue Larry Vernon Snow has pleaded guilty to attempted witness tampering in federal court, and has resigned from his elected position.

A group of lawmakers today wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging that the Department of Justice reconsider the case of two U.S. Park Police officers who shot and killed Northern Virginian Bijan Ghaisar in 2017.

A Marion man who ordered hundreds of fentanyl-laced pills through Snapchat from a supplier in California was sentenced this week to 42 months in federal prison.

Nationwide, SWAT teams routinely invade homes, break down doors, kill family pets (they always shoot the dogs first), damage furnishings, terrorize families, and wound or kill those unlucky enough to be present during a raid.

Bridgewater College honored three alumni on Saturday, April 9, for their achievements and humanitarian service.
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