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More than 80% of Americans live in trifecta states

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Ballotpedia · Jan 12, 2023

Shooting fallout: Metal detectors in elementary schools?

The shooting of a first-grade teacher in Virginia by a 6-year-old boy has plunged the nation into uncharted waters of school violence

The Independent UK · Jan 12, 2023

UNC basketball braces to play without its leader, Armando Bacot. Who fills his shoes?

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The last words North Carolina forward Armando Bacot said to coach Hubert Davis on Tuesday as he hobbled off the court after rolling his left ankle early in a 65-58 loss at Virginia, was that he’d make a quick return to the lineup.

Tribune News Service · Jan 12, 2023

Jury hears case alleging 4 cops enabled prostitution ring

A woman who says she was lured from Costa Rica into a Virginia-based sex-trafficking ring says that a former police chief and three other officers were clients of the enterprise and allowed it to operate

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2023

Judge tosses argument that Lee statue vote violated law

A Virginia judge has dismissed an argument that Charlottesville violated open government law with its 2021 vote to give a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2023

Background check missed deputy's red flags before killings

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

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2023

A 6-year-old shooter raises difficult questions for the criminal justice system

Although Virginia law does not set a minimum age for criminal prosecution, the traditional principles of criminal justice "don't really apply" when the offender is so young, one legal expert said.

WEKU · Jan 10, 2023

No warning before 6-year-old boy shot teacher, police confirm

First-grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by a student at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia

Irish Mirror · Jan 10, 2023

Virginia teacher Abby Zwerner ‘tried to confiscate gun before being shot by six-year-old boy’

Mum Brittaney Gregory said her son was in the same class at Richneck Elementary School and that Abby Zwerner was his favourite teacher

Evening Standard · Jan 10, 2023

Why Virginia police hired ‘catfish’ cop Austin Lee Edwards

LOS ANGELES — In a previously unreported letter obtained by The Times, the head of the Virginia State Police detailed errors in his agency’s hiring of Austin Lee Edwards, the now-deceased “catfish” cop who killed three people in Riverside in late November.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 10, 2023