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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s say you’re a law-enforcement investigator raiding a cockfight in Virginia. “You could have 100 people there, and 50 of them have entered roosters in the derby,” said John Goodwin, the manager of animal-fighting issues for the Humane Society of the United States, setting the scene for us. “When the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s say you’re a law-enforcement investigator raiding a cockfight in Virginia. “You could have 100 people there, and 50 of them have entered roosters in the derby,” said John Goodwin, the manager of animal-fighting issues for the Humane Society of the United States, setting the scene for us.
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Imagine, Carlton Powell says, a volcano about the erupt. “That’s how it’s going to be inside Lane Stadium,” said Powell, a senior defensive tackle at Virginia Tech, for Saturday’s 2007 season opener pitting the Hokies against East Carolina – the first football game at the school since the tragic events of April 16 that left…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham More than 7,000 Virginia children were found to have been abused or neglected last year. Another 14,000 incidents of abuse and neglect never made it to the authorities for assessment or investigation. Not that you would know any of this from reading the papers or watching the evening news.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Shenandoah Valley has a gang problem – this is what we have to assume, if only because this is what we are told is the case. We’re reminded often that we have seen gang-related murders here – three in the last five years. This in addition to other…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Visitors to the Virginia Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Web site can now click on an interactive map that pinpoints where offenders live in proximity to where they live – and get instant information on the nature of their offenses and even where they are employed….
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The Virginia State Police reported today, in a release, that it has concluded its investigation into the officer-involved shooting that killed Dustin Griffin, 42, of Staunton, on Dec. 17.
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Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal plane crash that occurred at 11:05 a.m. Tuesday near Shannon Airport in Spotsylvania County.
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Virginia State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Page County in which a 49-year-old woman who was the subject of a welfare check was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies.
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Virginia State Police is investigating a three-vehicle crash reported on Sunday on Floyd Highway that took the life of a Roanoke man.
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