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A former Virginia Parole Board chair violated state policy and law in her handling of cases at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and could have faced criminal charges for falsifying documents if not for the statute of limitations, the state's attorney general said Wednesday.
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A school superintendent says administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not find the 9mm handgun he brought despite searching his backpack.
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A background investigator erroneously failed to check a would-be trooper’s mental health history, allowing him to be hired for the Virginia State Police the year before he kidnapped a 15-year-old girl and killed three members of her family in California.
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It took just minutes to free the statue of Gen. A. P. Hill from the base Monday morning before it was moved to a bed of tires on a flatbed truck.
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The University of Virginia has canceled its game against rival Virginia Tech scheduled for Saturday following the slaying of three football players.
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The latest lawsuit comes on the heels of the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee saying its investigation will end early next year.
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During a Monday morning news conference, UVA's police chief was notified that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. was in custody.
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Attorney General Karl Racine says the team and league violated D.C. consumers' rights based on what they knew about the organization's workplace misconduct.
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As long as campaign volunteers are more than 40 feet from the front door of a polling location, they can record voters coming and going and ask questions about which candidates they’re supporting. Voters don't have to answer, of course. But the campaigners have a First Amendment right to take pictures and ask questions.
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The state is now the second one in the country to enact a law prohibiting the procedure following the overturning of Roe versus Wade earlier this year.