• 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...
    4 KB (359 words) - 01:04, 1 July 2024
  • 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...
    1 KB (82 words) - 15:06, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern Virginia
    Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United...
    122 KB (10,754 words) - 09:12, 11 September 2024
  • 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...
    13 KB (1,314 words) - 16:29, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cannabis in Virginia
    Cannabis in Virginia is legal for medical use and recreational use. The first medical marijuana dispensary opened in August 2020, and adult recreational...
    38 KB (3,685 words) - 06:01, 16 July 2024
  • 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...
    17 KB (1,926 words) - 16:47, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virginia Tech shooting
    the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student...
    203 KB (17,110 words) - 22:08, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seung-Hui Cho
    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...
    121 KB (11,555 words) - 20:07, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for D.C. sniper attacks
    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...
    82 KB (8,878 words) - 02:32, 16 September 2024
  • 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...
    12 KB (984 words) - 03:35, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Virginia
    West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east...
    184 KB (18,182 words) - 12:35, 19 September 2024
  • 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...
    60 KB (5,496 words) - 07:11, 18 August 2024
  • 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...
    121 KB (13,996 words) - 13:42, 19 September 2024
  • 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...
    32 KB (2,417 words) - 13:47, 1 April 2024
  • Crime in Washington, D.C., is directly related to the city's demographics, geography, and unique criminal justice system. The District's population reached...
    40 KB (3,872 words) - 00:21, 23 August 2024
  • 2022). "Alan Dershowitz's Accuser Virginia Giuffre Reveals When Trial Might Begin — and She Intends to Testify". Law & Crime. Retrieved July 20, 2022. Scannell...
    76 KB (7,794 words) - 22:21, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virginia Madsen
    Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress. She is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and...
    33 KB (1,709 words) - 09:31, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clery Act
    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...
    23 KB (2,323 words) - 19:21, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virginia
    Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...
    299 KB (26,579 words) - 15:41, 17 September 2024
  • This is a list of organized crime in the 1940s, arranged chronologically. James J. Hines, the leader of Tammany Hall, the New York City Democratic organization...
    29 KB (3,848 words) - 00:35, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crime in Minnesota
    Crime in Minnesota encompasses a wide range of unlawful activities that occur within the state, regulated by both state and federal laws. While crime...
    17 KB (1,675 words) - 10:19, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate
    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...
    12 KB (233 words) - 12:49, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charlottesville, Virginia
    colloquially known as C'ville,[pronunciation?] is an independent city in Virginia, United States. It is the seat of government of Albemarle County, which...
    84 KB (7,098 words) - 17:05, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fredericksburg, Virginia
    fredericksburgva.gov. Retrieved March 2, 2018. "Virginia State Police – Crime in Virginia Publication". vsp.virginia.gov. David Leip. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U...
    78 KB (6,280 words) - 23:37, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victimless crime
    crime is an illegal act that typically either directly involves only the perpetrator or occurs between consenting adults. Because it is consensual in...
    16 KB (1,885 words) - 19:13, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virginia Rappe
    related to Virginia Rappe. Works by or about Virginia Rappe at the Internet Archive Virginia Rappe at IMDb Virginia Rappe Home-Page (in German) Crime Library...
    12 KB (1,077 words) - 16:30, 21 June 2024
  • Gambino crime family (pronounced [ɡamˈbiːno]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities...
    235 KB (23,149 words) - 00:59, 17 September 2024
  • Martinsville Seven (category Crimes in Virginia)
    that since Virginia started use of the electric chair, only black men had been executed for rape in the state for what was a non-lethal crime. Though Governor...
    21 KB (2,832 words) - 23:45, 25 March 2024
  • mass shooting occurred at a municipal building in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The gunman, DeWayne Craddock, who was a disgruntled...
    30 KB (2,224 words) - 19:37, 4 August 2024
  • cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America...
    30 KB (840 words) - 06:54, 13 September 2024