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Police in Lynchburg, Va., are looking for 18-year-old Jamisha Gilbert (pictured) who went missing last week, WRIC.com reports. SEE ALSO: Police Investigate Possibility Of Foul Play In Missing Michigan Teen Case Gilbert last spoke with her mother on the phone on November 27th, when she apologized for keeping her younger brother out later than expected. […]

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Jackson Black (pictured left) of Craigsville, Va., is coming under fire for dressing as a Klansman for Halloween, and apparently, the costume is a family tradition, according to WHSV. SEE ALSO: D.C. Council Pushes To Decriminalize Marijuana “My brother ha[d] [worn the costume] when he was in kindergarten and when he was 13,” Mother Jessica […]

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In news-speak, it’s called a man bites dog story when something totally out of character and unexpected occurs. Something along those lines happened on Wednesday when Virginia’s Republican Governor Robert McDonnell (pictured center) announced he would give non-violent ex-felons in the state a fair shake by making it much easier to regain their right to […]

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Somebody needs to go back to law school in the state of Virginia when it comes to the issue of restoring voting rights for ex-felons. On one side, you have civil rights advocates at the NAACP and the Advancement Project insisting the governor of the state can, by executive order, restore voting rights for people […]

A Mecklenburg County affiliate was ordered to take down photos from its Facebook page that depicted photoshopped images of President Barack Obama as a witch doctor, caveman, and a thug in a wife beater. While the photos were removed on Thursday morning, the eye candy for Obama haters had reportedly been up for months before […]

For more than 40 minutes, 10-year-old Cequan Haskins (pictured) was physically and verbally abused by two 15-year-old boys who were significantly bigger than him during a school bus ride in Appomattox, VA. in May of 2011, WSET-TV reports. SEE ALSO: 5 Hottest Things To Do In ATL This Summer The entire incident was captured on […]

RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia law limiting handgun purchases to one per month was repealed Tuesday, over the opposition of gun control supporters and survivors of victims in the Virginia Tech massacre. Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell signed the bill into law after it was passed two weeks ago by the GOP-controlled General Assembly. He did […]

A Virginia woman who suffers from a disease that affects her kidneys will lose her residence in public housing over a drug policy her mom and boyfriend broke. SEE ALSO: The 9-to-5 Workday About To Be Gone?

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Tech police officer who was gunned down in a campus attack joined the force six months after the university was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. He was a proud policeman who recently invited a friend to ride along with him, which made his […]

Conjoined twin girls from the Dominican Republic were separated in a Virginia hospital after undergoing a complicated procedure.

NORFOLK, Va. — A 19-year-old Norfolk man convicted of several crimes related to robberies in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina has been sentenced to nearly 97 years in prison. Raymond Lewis Perry was sentenced Monday in federal court in Norfolk. The Top 5 Bank Robberies Caught On Tape Teens Steal $20,000 In Clothes In “Flash […]

RICHMOND — If you’re looking for some clues to your ancestry, you may find them in Virginia. The Virginia Historical Society has launched a new database with over 1,500 searchable slave names. The database, Unknown No Longer, which appears on their site, can find the slave names based on keywords such as name, gender, location, occupation and plantation. […]