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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.
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Under the legislation, rape and incest victims would be able to obtain abortions at up to eight weeks of pregnancy, but only if they report to law enforcement first.