Chauvin already faced second-degree murder and manslaughter charges. Legal experts say the additional charge helps prosecutors by giving jurors another option to find Chauvin guilty of murder.
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The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Ralph Northam. His signature would end capital punishment in the state that has carried it out more than any other since colonial days.
The former Rockbridge Regional Jail Superintendent has been convicted on corruption charges, which include accepting money and providing preferential treatment to former W&L student Nicholas Hansel.
Rogers was sentenced to almost four years in prison for driving his pickup truck through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters near Richmond last summer.
Law enforcement agents thwarted a kidnapping attempt today by “violent extremists” against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Rockbridge Regional Jail is working with an outside agency to start a program to help inmates re-enter society. The jail superintendent hopes it will reduce overcrowding and the 82% repeat offender rate.
Steve Funkhouser was sworn in as Rockbridge County’s sheriff on Dec. 30.
The 18-year-old was an international studies major and worked with Marine Corps ROTC.
Over 800,000 protesters have demanded the French government stop attempts to change their pension system.
Five incidents of sexual assault have been reported at VMI in 2019, two of them this fall.