
State Police investigating officer-involved shooting in Rockingham County
The Virginia State Police is investigating an incident from Sunday night that left a Rockingham County resident deceased.

The Virginia State Police is investigating an incident from Sunday night that left a Rockingham County resident deceased.

Ten community organizations across the state were recently awarded more than $69,000 in Virginia ABC Education and Prevention grants to help reduce underage and high-risk drinking in their communities.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) introduced a bill to require uniformed federal police officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in police vehicles.

Virginia’s official and only comprehensive report on local and statewide crime figures for 2018 is now available online at the Virginia State Police website at www.vsp.virginia.gov, under “Forms & Publications.”

Liberty High School in Bedford County is Virginia’s high school division winner of the 2019 “Arrive Alive” teen safe driving campaign sponsored by Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety.

What the First Amendment protects—and a healthy constitutional republic requires—are citizens who routinely exercise their right to speak truth to power.

Following this morning’s press conference in Virginia Beach, Congresswoman Elaine Luria issued the following statement.

This morning families woke up in a world without their loved ones. Many are at the hospital anxiously awaiting news of a friend or family member in surgery. Let us grieve with them and let us pray for them.

Thirteen people, including the shooter, an apparently disgruntled city employee, were killed in a mass shooting at a building at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center late Friday.

Preliminary reports indicate the 2019 Memorial Day weekend proved deadly for a total of 11 individuals, six of whom were riding on motorcycles.
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