
House passes Protecting Our Kids Act: Tight, slightly bipartisan vote
The U.S. House passed, in bipartisan fashion, technically speaking, the Protecting Our Kids Act, a package of gun violence prevention legislation.

The U.S. House passed, in bipartisan fashion, technically speaking, the Protecting Our Kids Act, a package of gun violence prevention legislation.

The FBI and police in Chesterfield County and Richmond are readvertising rewards to solve two murders and two robberies.

Fifty-five years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. published his fourth and final book: “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”

A man in Tulsa was upset with the surgeon who performed back surgery on him, complaining of continuing pain. So he bought a handgun and assault rifle and killed him, and three other people.

A Jonesville man arrested in Lee County for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute was sentenced last week to 90 months in federal prison on federal drug distribution and weapons charges.

No doubt you’ve read or watched news reports detailing how family members of the victims in Uvalde were asked to provide DNA swabs to help identify their loved ones, which, you know what that means.

Yet another elementary school shooting massacre has left 19 children and two teachers dead – this time in Uvalde, Texas.

Since Trump rose to power in 2016, my concerns about the future of America have only been gravely compounded.

Danny J. Wynkoop, 23, of Madison, is in custody and has been charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm while in the commission of a felony crime.

Update: Albemarle County Police Department has charged 29-year-old Jeffrey van Battle of Albemarle County with two misdemeanors: brandishing a firearm and trespassing in relation to this incident.
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