Crime in Virginia report: Violent crime, hate crimes up sharply in Virginia in 2022
Violent crime in Virginia is up sharply, and it’s about guns, this according to the Crime in Virginia report released by Virginia State Police this week.
Violent crime in Virginia is up sharply, and it’s about guns, this according to the Crime in Virginia report released by Virginia State Police this week.
Former President Donald Trump, not surprisingly, is claiming, after a jury found on Tuesday that he sexually assaulted journalist E. Jean Carroll, that he has “absolutely no idea who this woman is,” that the verdict is a “disgrace,” and a “continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.”
Virginia is scheduled to play its football season opener in Tennessee, where the House of Representatives just voted to expel two Black members for protesting gun violence in the wake of the murders of six in a Nashville school last month.
The U.S. Department of Defense is updating their approach to suicide prevention after reviewing the Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee’s report released this week.
A Montana man faces a life sentence after a federal jury convicted him on hate and firearms crimes for firing an assault rifle to target a lesbian woman in her home.

It takes a special kind of evil to prostitute and traffick a child for sex, and yet this evil walks among us every minute of every day.
The right to safe and affordable abortion is a human right that serves all sexes and genders.

This is the Second Amendment in full-on action: Republicans running for office gleefully pretending to defend the country from whomever. Only a good guy with a gun can stop a politician with a big mouth. A literal civil war is fomenting, or so it seems, and Jan. 6 was just a practice run.

The Valley Children’s Advocacy Center is spearheading an awareness campaign throughout April to focus community attention on the issues of child abuse in our community.

Ramon Hernandez, 26 of Harrisonburg, has pleaded guilty in Rockingham County Circuit Court to object sexual penetration by force and strangulation, both felonies.
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