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(AP) A man convicted of felony firearm possession last week became the first person exonerated under a 2004 Virginia law that allows prisoners to present new, non-DNA evidence of their innocence. More than 120 other inmates’ petitions had been rejected ...

HOT SPRINGS (AP) Democrat Mark Warner and Republican Jim Gilmore feuded July 19 over energy policy and trustworthiness in a debut debate in their race for the U.S. Senate, but neither former governor scored a breakthrough. Gilmore, trailing significantly in ...

TAZEWELL—A high school teacher who allegedly took two students to a burial vault and handled human remains was simply pursuing an interest in history, her lawyer said. “Possibly poor judgment, but not to the level of a felony,” Candace Lee ...

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Football fans here can get rowdy. But no one has seen this: Over in Stockport, England, a crossbow arrow was fired into a soccer stadium, whistling past one of the players and forcing the amateur game to be called off. ...

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In New Cumberland, W.Va., a man facing robbery charges will receive a new trial after a juror was overheard to say the defendant should be convicted quickly so jurors could go home. The statement was allegedly made when the 12 ...

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Anyone who ever played cops-and-robbers as a kid, listened to a police scanner or watched TV shows such as “Dragnet” or “Adam-12” knows that “10-4” and other codes beginning with 10 are radio cop-speak for “OK,” or “officer down” or ...

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