• Crime in the U.S. state of Virginia has generally decreased from 2008 to 2014. Overall, there were 177,060 crimes reported in 2014 in Virginia, including...
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    Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United...
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  • In 2014 there were 43,236 crimes reported in the U.S. state of West Virginia, including 74 murders. In 2008 there were 51,376 crimes reported in West Virginia...
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  • Virginia Hill (born Onie Virginia Hill; August 26, 1916 – March 24, 1966) was an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, she became a Chicago...
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    Cannabis in Virginia is legal for medical use and recreational use. The first medical marijuana dispensary opened in August 2020, and adult recreational...
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  • abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd...
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  • television, in 1974 Crime in Virginia R. Budd Dwyer, the former state treasurer of Pennsylvania who shot himself on live television, in 1987 List of...
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    the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg...
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    D.C. sniper attacks (category Crime in Richmond, Virginia)
    three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary...
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  • Montie Rissell (category Crimes in Virginia)
    Pocahontas State Correctional Center in Virginia. Rissell was featured in season 1, episode 4 of the 2017 Netflix crime drama, Mindhunter; actor Sam Strike...
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    the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student...
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  • This is a list of organized crime in the 1920s, arranged chronologically. Jan. 17 - With National Prohibition having gone into effect at midnight, an army...
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    2022, a mass shooting took place at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three people were killed and two others were...
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    2022). "Scott Caan-Led Crime Drama One Day As A Lion Lands At Grindstone; J.K. Simmons, Frank Grillo, Michael Carmen Pitt, Virginia Madsen, Others Co-Star"...
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  • A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a...
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    West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the...
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    Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...
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    fredericksburgva.gov. Retrieved March 2, 2018. "Virginia State Police – Crime in Virginia Publication". vsp.virginia.gov. David Leip. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U...
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    Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States. It is the seat of government of Albemarle County, which...
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  • Crime in Washington, D.C., is directly related to the city's demographics, geography, and unique criminal justice system. The District's population reached...
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    Murder of Alexis Murphy (category 2013 crimes in Virginia)
    Murphy took place in Lovingston, Virginia, U,S, on August 3, 2013. Murphy, a 17-year-old high school student of Nelson County, Virginia, disappeared after...
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  • city's crime rate has decreased considerably from its 1980s peak. In 2017, there were 267 murders in Detroit - down from 303 in 2016. The violent crime rate...
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    territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per...
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  • 2022). "Alan Dershowitz's Accuser Virginia Giuffre Reveals When Trial Might Begin — and She Intends to Testify". Law & Crime. Retrieved July 20, 2022. Scannell...
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  • 2006 Richmond spree murders (category Crime in Richmond, Virginia)
    spree murders took place during a seven-day period in January 2006 in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States; seven people—four members of the Harvey...
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    Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 census...
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    Campus Crime Statistics Act or Clery Act, signed in 1990, is a federal statute codified at 20 U.S.C. § 1092(f), with implementing regulations in the U...
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  • Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, romanized: Prestupleniye i nakazaniye...
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  • Charles Severance (serial killer) (category Crimes in Virginia)
    American serial killer whose crimes took place in Alexandria, Virginia, between 2003 and 2014. He was convicted by a Virginia court in 2016 of three shooting...
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  • mass shooting occurred at a municipal building in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The gunman, DeWayne Craddock, who was a disgruntled...
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