
Virginia hospitals focusing on community efforts to address gun violence
Virginia hospitals are helping lead efforts to enhance public health through programs focused on meeting the needs of victims of community violence.

Virginia hospitals are helping lead efforts to enhance public health through programs focused on meeting the needs of victims of community violence.

What we do not need is yet another pretext by which government officials can violate the Fourth Amendment at will under the guise of public health and safety.

Virginia is one step closer to passing a budget that includes a $13 million allocation over the next two years to support gun violence prevention to be administered by the state’s Department of Criminal Justice Services.

Virginia State Police is investigating what appears to be a road rage incident that occurred at 7:12 a.m. Friday morning.

The Assault Weapons Excise Act, introduced by Eighth District Democrat Don Beyer, would impose a 1,000 percent excise tax on the manufacture, production, or importation of assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines.

A traffic stop late Thursday on Interstate 64 in Alleghany County started a series of events that ended in a shootout between a suspect and officers, and Virginia State Police is now investigating what happened.

The Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act will allow family members and law enforcement officers to petition a federal court for an extreme risk protection order.

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?”
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