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Blacksburg Police investigate robberies
Blacksburg Police are investigating two robberies that happened within an hour of one another. The first one happened around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday at a community center on Tall Oaks Drive at Hethwood Boulevard. The robber pulled a knife on someone who...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, CVS Corp., Theft
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UPDATED: Robber steals money from people at Roanoke County church
UPDATED 08:09 P.M. A church is the last place you would expect to get robbed. But that's what happened to three women at The Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Roanoke County. On Wednesday night they had their weekly choir practice and as always...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Man pulled from car, assaulted, and robbed in Danville
Police in Danville are looking for two robbers who pulled a man from his car and stole his money. It happened on Melville Avenue near Verne Street just before 9:00 p.m. Monday. The victim was sitting in his car on the street when the robbers attacked....
Tags: Theft
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Cold Case: Did a convicted murderer kill two more?
Anchor/ReporterOne day in the late 1970's two young girls vanished from school. No sightings, few leads,they're just gone. It's one of the oldest cold cases in the Roanoke Police files. They think they have their man and they believe the girls were murdered. The prime...Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Missing Persons
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Deputies: Virginia law considers bus stops off-limits to sex offenders
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefSheriff's deputies in Bedford County have charged a man for trying to lure a young girl away from her bus stop. Deputies arrested Donald Dove of Evington last week, and investigators say he might have avoided charges if it wasn't for his criminal past....Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Bedford County (Virginia), Crime, Law and Justice
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Danville Utilities introduces traceable copper wire
WDBJ7 ReporterIt was a textbook call for the Rockingham County, North Carolina, Sheriff's Office; A man spotted near a power facility outside an abandoned factory. Officers say his motive was to steal copper wiring. It didn't work - deputies say he died trying....Tags: Companies and Corporations, Rockingham County (Virginia), Rockingham County (North Carolina), Economy, Business and Finance, Theft
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Roanoke store owner won't press charges if thief helps a local charity
ReporterA store owner isn't pressing charges against a man who stole something from her Roanoke business. It wasn't money or merchandise. Instead the thief took 'the most interesting man in the world'. It's a 6-foot cardboard cutout featuring the star of the...Tags: Charity, Social Issues, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Theft
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Police, Metallica team up for multimedia campaign to catch Morgan Harrington's killer
Police are using social media to catch the man who killed Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington in 2009. Two composite sketches of the murder suspect, one with and one without facial hair, are being shown on billboards all over the east coast. The...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Social Media, Elections, Albemarle County, Apple iTunes
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Metallica uses its star-power to help catch the killer of Morgan Harrington
reporter"Hi, I'm James of Metallica. Back in 2010 our band offered $50-thousand for helping catch the person who killed Morgan Harrington," so starts the PSA starring James Hetfield. Hetfield is used to being in front of millions of fans as the lead singer of...Tags: Social Media, Albemarle County, Apple iTunes, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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U.S. Attorney General rules Jens Soering will have to serve rest of his sentence in Virginia
WDBJ7 ReporterOne of Virginia's most notorious killers is going to have to serve out the rest of his sentence in Virginia. United States Attorney General Eric Holder says there will be no diagreement between Virginia and the federal government over the transfer of...Tags: Lawyers, Executive Branch, Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia General Assembly, Crime, Law and Justice
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Jail mistake frees career criminal; goes unnoticed for 8 days
FARMVILLE, Va. (WTVR) – Officials at a Central Virginia jail discovered Friday morning that career criminal was accidentally released last week. As a result, the U.S. Marshals Service is hunting for Carter Tillery, a man they consider armed and...
Tags: Lawyers, Bank Robbery, Police Arrests, Crimes, Dinwiddie County
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