Drive them like they’re hot: Summer is car theft season, so driver beware
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Summer is the season for sunburns, barbecues and car thieves. Vehicle thefts peak during summer and July is Vehicle Theft Prevention Month.
Search Results for Virginia State Police
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Another city manager stepping down in Charlottesville: This makes six in the past five years
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It doesn’t seem that anybody wants to be the city manager in Charlottesville, which is cycling through another candidate post-Aug. 11-12, 2017.
Albemarle County prepared to fight opioid overdose deaths with expanded Narcan training
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Albemarle County’s Public Safety Departments and Albemarle County Public Schools have expanded staff access to naloxone.
AG Jason Miyares announces 10 members for nation’s first antisemitism task force
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Through an application process, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares selected 10 members for an antisemitism task force.
Annual report: Violent crime increased in the Commonwealth from 2021 to 2022
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Homicides, auto thefts, drug arrests, burglary and fraud increased in the Commonwealth in 2022 compared to 2021.
Culpeper District Weekly Alert: VDOT work schedule for the week of June 12-16
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VDOT has updated its list of highway work that is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the next week.
‘Ongoing dispute’ likely cause of mass shooting after graduation ceremony in Richmond
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An “ongoing dispute” was the likely cause of a shooting Tuesday night in Richmond that left a high-school graduate and his stepfather dead, and at least five bystanders wounded outside the Altria Theater on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus.
Richmond is No. 3 for American cities with a homicide rate problem
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The homicide rate spiked by an average of approximately 10 percent in 45 cities between the first quarters of 2021 and 2023.
Americans walk less than others throughout world; safety could be key to reversing the trend
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A professor at Virginia Tech has been studying why people walk less in the United States – and his findings show it’s because “it’s more dangerous to walk here.”
Prosecutors seek forfeiture of two Big Stone Gap homes: ‘Hubs for a narcotics conspiracy’
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Federal prosecutors have filed a civil complaint aimed at forcing the forfeiture of two Big Stone Gap homes connected to the November 2021 murder of a police officer.
