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A former Virginia police officer pleaded guilty on Friday to storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. CBS News reports Jacob Fracker, 30, a former Rocky Mount, Virginia police officer who was fired after his arrest, pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress that was held on Jan. 6 to certify […]
A judge ruled that a Virginia school system discriminated against Asian Americans after it revamped its admissions process at a prestigious public school. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton found that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology—a competitive school which ranks as one of the best public schools in the country—“infected” admissions changes with “talk of racial […]
A temporary restraining order has been issued against a woman who “may be armed” and is accused of stalking Apple CEO Tim Cook. The Virginia woman, according to a report from the Mercury News, is alleged by Apple to have been stalking Cook for over a year. She’s also accused of having emailed Cook photographs showing […]
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has announced the outcome of an investigation into the Virginia Beach Police Department, which was previously made the subject of a probe that found the department had used forged DNA reports in interrogations. This practice was first revealed in 2021 when a prosecutor asked the regional Department of Forensic […]
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is suing the town of Windsor over a year after a December 2020 traffic stop where police officers pepper-sprayed and threatened a Black and Latino Army officer, which was caught on bodycam footage. U.S. Army officer Lt. Caron Nazario faced “egregious treatment,” according to the AG who wrote that an investigation found Black drivers faced “huge” disparities in traffic stops and […]
A Virginia man accused of shooting at a sheriff’s deputies died on Friday after crashing during a car chase, per the Associated Press. The 21 year-old man Jeremy Yates crashed in an embankment in Rappahannock County, following a chase that began when the Culpeper Police Department notified other authorities of Yates and warned them that he may be armed with a […]
Several months after Pharrell Williams’ cousin Donovon Lynch was shot and killed by police in Virginia Beach, prosecutors announced Tuesday that a grand jury had found “no probable cause” to charge Officer Solomon D. Simmons in Lynch’s death. The Associated Press reports Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney Colin Stolle said Simmons was justified in protecting himself in the late March shooting. Simmons alleged that Lynch had a gun on him. […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Pharrell Williams is threatening to pull his Something in the Water festival from his hometown of Virginia Beach, Variety reports. […]
If there’s been a pair of New Balance sneakers designed by retailer DTLR, then June Sanders made that. Sanders, who serves as the product design manager at the chain retail store that’s primarily located in the mid-Atlantic and northeast, is a DMV native who was born in Washington, D.C, and ended up growing up in […]
Virginia is one step closer to removing the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. According to the New York Times, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a circuit court ruling that paved the way for the 12-ton statue’s removal in the capital city. The decision was explained in two opinions Thursday, more than a year after Gov. Ralph […]
