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Lynchburg bridge getting new safety barriers
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefA Lynchburg bridge that's known for suicides is getting a new safety measure. Public works crews are getting ready to install new railings on the Rivermont Avenue bridge. A six-foot fence will be posted on both sides of the span, which crosses...Tags: Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia)
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California filmmaker with ties to western Virginia hopes to bring her next project home
ReporterA California actress who grew up in the Roanoke Valley is hoping to make a feature film here. "It's a Good Day to Die," is a comedy about assisted suicide, and this week, Andrea Shreeman has been meeting with community leaders and potential investors. ...Tags: Comedy (genre), Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Entertainment, Assisted Suicide, Movies
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Two Rocky Mount men charged with stealing gun from man who committed suicide
Two men have been arrested for stealing a firearm from a man who had just killed himself in Franklin County. 21-year-old Ameche Pettie and 26-year-old Kenneth Caldwell Jr., both of Rocky Mount, have been charged. Pettie has been charged with grand...
Tags: Prosecution, Theft, Firearms, Franklin County (Virginia)
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Roanoke County Police find possible meth lab
The Roanoke Police Department believes they found a methamphetamine lab on the 6100 block of Bent Mountain Road early Wednesday morning. Investigators say they responded to the 6100 block of Bent Mountain to check on a man who had made suicidal threats....
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Suicidal Behavior, Roanoke County, Drug Trafficking, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Virginia Tech Police Department continues to heal after Officer Crouse's murder
ReporterIt's been exactly two months since a Virginia Tech police officer was shot and killed on the school's campus. There is still no known motive or connection between Officer Deriek Crouse and his killer Ross Ashley, according to state police. On every...Tags: Police Investigations, Virginia Tech, Suicide, Murder
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Collegiate Times student reporters react to covering murder-suicide at Virginia Tech
ReporterJust college students and already published in the New York Times. Thursday's shooting on campus brought the spotlight to Virginia Tech, and to the student reporters who cover campus. An event of Thursday’s magnitude, a murder-suicide and the...Tags: Newspapers, Health and Safety at School, Photography, Arts, Teaching and Learning
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Ashley bought gun in Virginia in January
Virginia State Police say the man who shot and killed a Virginia Tech Police Officer bought the .40-caliber handgun legally in January.
Police say Ross Ashley shot and killed Officer Deriek Crouse, and then took his own life with the same handgun....Tags: Montgomery County (Virginia), Police Investigations, Theft, Transportation, Blacksburg
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Police identify Virginia Tech shooter
Friday recap: Virginia State Police have identified the gunman who they say killed a Virginia Tech police officer and himself Thursday.
Investigators say Ross Truett Ashley of Radford shot and killed officer Deriek Crouse, and then took his own life....Tags: Montgomery County (Virginia), Theft, Traffic, Shootings, Salem (Salem, Virginia)
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Veteran suicide: growing numbers, intensified outreach
— Sleep was dangerous for me. I couldn't handle the nightmares. I thought I was psychotic. I diagnosed myself with anything other than PTSD. I came up with a plan to end the pain, end the nightmares and keep the people I loved from being hurt. I...
Tags: Afghanistan, Behavioral Conditions, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Mental Illness
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Guantanamo, hunger strikes and medical ethics
As prisoners continue to wage a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a pointed opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that military physicians who oversee such feedings are guilty of aggravated assault and should...
Tags: Prisons, Strikes, U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, Values
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Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides
Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Afghanistan, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Methamphetamine (drug), Bipolar Disorder
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Bollywood actor held in custody over girlfriend's suicide
ReutersBy Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - Bollywood actor Suraj Pancholi who was arrested after the suicide of his actress girlfriend Jiah Khan will spend at least another week in jail after a Mumbai court on Friday adjourned his bail hearing...Tags: Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Celebrities, Mumbai (India), Crimes
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