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The words come across Facebook and the evening news: mass shooter, multiple deaths by gun violence.

The words come across Facebook and the evening news: mass shooter, multiple deaths by gun violence.

The investigation into what Richmond Police say was a plot by two Guatemalan nationals to target a July 4 community celebration for a mass shooting has turned into an international and local political incident.

The Supreme Court has spoken: there will be no consequences for cops who brutalize the citizenry and no justice for the victims of police brutality.

Two men have been arrested in connection with an apparent planned mass shooting at a Richmond community Fourth of July celebration.

The Waynesboro Police Department conducted a month-long investigation into multiple thefts from various businesses and construction sites throughout the city that has resulted in three arrests.

Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials.

Over the past two weeks the Supreme Court passed two rulings that history will recall as the most infamous and extremely dangerous for the American people.

Virginia’s official and only comprehensive report on local and statewide crime figures for 2021, titled Crime in Virginia, is now available online at the Virginia State Police website on the VSP CJIS Data Analysis & Reporting Team page.

A trio of Southwest Virginia residents who distributed pills containing fentanyl and were linked to teenage overdoses pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Abington.

Not all the news from D.C. on Friday was awful news. The U.S. House voted 234-193 to pass the Safer Communities Act, the first meaningful gun safety legislation to see the light of day in 30 years.
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