Firearms

There are some interesting results from a new Roanoke College poll. It asked respondents about important social issues nationally, and polled people across Virginia. On immigration reform, when offered a choice of how to deal with immigrants in the U....

The Senate has rejected a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers in a crucial showdown over gun control. Wednesday's vote was a jarring blow to the drive to curb firearms sparked by December's massacre of...

Neil MacInnis, the teenager accused of opening fire Friday at the New River Valley Mall in Christiansburg, was taken into custody with a 12-gauge shotgun that he legally purchased two days before the shooting, investigators say. MacInnis wounded two...

A man from Pittsylvania County is in jail tonight after a deadly shooting on the campus of Longwood University Saturday night. State Police say Darryl Elmore shot and killed a man from Mechanicsville in a trailer on a construction site at Lancer Park, a...

Five men were arrested in Danville on Thursday for breaking into a home on Seminole Drive. According to a news release, Danville Police received a report of a burglary going on in the 400 block of Seminole Drive. Officers arrived around 11:40 a.m. and...

While lawmakers continue the debate over gun control in Washington, one school in our region is making a clear statement on the issue. Some people at Liberty University will get to carry guns to class if they want to. The university's general counsel,...

Connecticut lawmakers gave final approval early Thursday to a wide-ranging bill that includes sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown that one lawmaker...

Blacksburg, Virginia, March 30, 2013 –On March 30th, at 0245 hours, Blacksburg Police responded to a 911 call reporting an armed robbery that had just occurred at a residence in the 600 block of Washington Street, SE. After arriving at the scene,...

Officers arrested two people this week in relation to an armed robbery at a Stop Inn Food Store in Roanoke County. On March 22, a masked man walked into the store on Brambleton Avenue and pulled out what witnesses said looked a pistol, demanding money....

A wanted Martinsville man was arrested on Friday for giving false identity to police in addition to a host of outstanding felony drug and gun charges. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office searched a Ridgeway apartment on Friday and found the suspect,...

Update: March 9 - Justin Little turned himself in to the Radford Police during early Saturday morning and was arrested without incident. He's charged with robbery, breaking and entering in the nighttime to commit robbery, and use of a firearm in the...

A Blacksburg attorney facing drug and gun charges will stay in jail. Joseph Painter was denied bond during a hearing Monday. He was arrested Feb. 26 in a hotel parking lot in Christiansburg. Painter, 65, has also been charged with DUI. On Monday...