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          <title>Sheriff Woody calls sexual battery allegation fabricated</title>
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Richmond Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr. issued a statement today saying a sexual battery allegation against him is fabricated and without merit.
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          <title>Richmond police investigating gunfire exchange</title>
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Richmond police today are continuing to investigate an exchange of gunfire while serving a search warrant in the city&#8217;s East End last night.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man shot, wounded in Richmond armed robbery</title>
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Richmond police are investigating the armed robbery of a man who was shot and wounded last night in the 2000 block of Mechanicsville Turnpike.
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          <title>Sentencing delayed in Ryan Matko slaying</title>
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Next week&#8217;s scheduled sentencing of former gang member Detavis J. King for the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield County teenager Ryan Matko will be delayed for several months as his defense attorney seeks to have King&#8217;s guilty verdicts set aside. Defense lawyer Greg Sheldon filed a motion Wednesday to continue Monday&#8217;s sentencing hearing so he can obtain and review a transcript of the testimony given by Dominique Johnson, a key prosecution witness, who Sheldon suggested at King&#8217;s trial was the real killer.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Richmond sheriff accused of sexual battery</title>
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A special prosecutor has been assigned to investigate an allegation of sexual battery made against Richmond Sheriff C.T. Woody, a law-enforcement official confirmed last night. An adult woman made the allegation against Woody to Richmond authorities, and the matter later was referred to a special prosecutor, the official said. It could not be confirmed when the incident is alleged to have taken place or the status of the investigation.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Waynesboro man pleads guilty in mushrooms case</title>
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The man charged in Waynesboro&#8217;s largest bust for illegal mushrooms pleaded guilty this week in Circuit Court to possessing and distributing the psychedelic drug, which police found stored in more than 100 jars in his apartment. In July, authorities charged Felix Christopher Gutierrez, 31, with a single felony charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Henrico beatings traced to gang initiations</title>
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Henrico County authorities revealed yesterday that a series of beatings earlier this year in the western part of the county were linked to gang initiation rites. Deputy Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Michael Feinmel and police investigator D.C. Wood said at a preliminary hearing that two defendants and juvenile witnesses who appeared in court yesterday have ties to two well-known street gangs, the Bloods and the Crips.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Elliott executed for &#8216;01 death</title>
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Death-row inmate Larry Bill Elliott was executed last night for the 2001 murder of Dana Thrall of Prince William County. Elliott, 60, a former Army intelligence officer from Hanover, Md., died in the electric chair at Greensville Correctional Center, about 60 miles south of Richmond. He was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. He had met with his family, a spiritual adviser and his lawyers earlier in the day.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:53 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Former Tucker coach guilty of indecent liberties</title>
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J.R. Tucker High School&#8217;s former football coach pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of taking indecent liberties with two teenage students. In a brief hearing in Henrico County Circuit Court, William Macgregor &#8220;Mac&#8221; Leighton, 31, acknowledged his guilt in months-long relationships with students 15 and 17. A prosecutor said the relationships consisted of the students sending Leighton scores of nude images of themselves by cell phone and exchanges of graphic text messages.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Two sentenced in child&#45;neglect case</title>
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Two Richmond women who shopped while the young children under their care slept in a parked car&#8212;at 1 a.m.&#8212;have received a writing assignment and weekend jail time from a judge in Henrico County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Starline Mae Hanley, 20, and Leondria Louise Brantley, 19, were found guilty this week of misdemeanor child neglect in connection with a 1 a.m. grocery shopping trip to a Short Pump Wal-Mart store Sept. 1.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Man gets 13&#45;sentence in fatal shooting</title>
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A Petersburg man has been sentenced to serve 13 years in prison for fatally shooting his mother&#8217;s neighbor in the back during a trifling disagreement that spiraled out of control. &#8220;I think it was [a situation] where people just didn&#8217;t know how to resolve conflicts,&#8220; said Petersburg Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Cassandra Stroud-Burns, who prosecuted the case. &#8220;It&#8217;s just really sad.&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Two men are injured in shootings in Richmond</title>
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Two men were taken to a hospital for treatment after a pair of shootings barely an hour and a few blocks apart Monday night near McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in South Richmond. Both victims were taken to CJW Medical Center (Chippenham) for injuries that authorities said were not life-threatening. Police said it did not appear that the shootings were related.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Petersburg man arrested after setting former co&#45;worker on fire, police say</title>
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A Petersburg man was arrested yesterday about 25 minutes after police said he set a former co-worker on fire and then fled on a public bus. The 35-year-old victim, whom police didn&#8217;t identify, suffered burns to her head and was airlifted to VCU Medical Center, where she was in serious but stable condition yesterday, police said. Henry Morton, 51, was charged with aggravated malicious wounding in the 8:35 a.m. assault, which occurred in the parking lot of the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive in the city&#8217;s eastern end. Morton had been fired as a maintenance worker at the apartment complex Monday, police said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Crime log for Nov. 18</title>
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Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 500 block of West 13th Street, between 3:30 p.m. Nov. 13 and 5:30 p.m. Nov. 15, someone stole an electric meter and a generator. 200 block of West Marshall Street, between noon Nov. 13 and 1:10 p.m. Nov. 15, someone stole money.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Petersburg man charged with setting former co&#45;worker on fire</title>
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A Petersburg man was arrested today about 25 minutes after police say he set a former co-worker on fire and then fled on a public bus. The victim, who wasn&#8217;t identified, sustained burns to her head area and was airlifted to VCU Medical Center, where she is in serious but stable condition, police said. Henry Morton, 51, was charged with aggravated malicious wounding in the 8:35 a.m. assault, which occurred in the parking lot of the Petersburg East Complex at 110 Croatan Drive in the city&#8217;s east end. Morton had been fired as a maintenance worker at the apartment complex yesterday, police said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:44:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ex&#45;Tucker football coach pleads guilty to indecent liberties with 2 students</title>
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The former head football coach at J.R. Tucker High School in Henrico County pleaded guilty this morning to three counts of taking indecent liberties with teenaged students. William Macgregor &#8220;Mac&#8221; Leighton, 31, entered guilty pleas in a short court hearing. He was released on bond pending sentencing Feb. 19. He faces a maximum of five years in prison for each of the three convictions.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:48:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Missing 9&#45;year&#45;old sought by Henrico police</title>
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Henrico County police are looking for a 9-year-old boy who has been missing for more than a month and may have been abducted by his mother. Lt. Eric D. Owens this morning said Antoine Lamonte Toliver Jr. was last seen Oct. 9 in the company of his mother, Charmaine Sofonia Jones. Owens said police are seeking Jones for felony parental abduction.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Man stabbed in downtown Richmond</title>
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A man was taken to VCU Medical Center after being stabbed in the chest on a downtown Richmond street late last night. Richmond police Capt. Paul Kiniry said the victim of the stabbing had injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening after a stabbing that occurred at 11:30 p.m. in the 200 block of East Broad Street. Kiniry said the victim gave police varying versions of what may have precipitated the stabbing, including that the suspect may have tried to rob him.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:42:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 wounded in South Richmond shootings</title>
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Two men were taken to a hospital for treatment after a pair of shootings barely an hour and a few blocks apart last night near McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in South Richmond. Both victims were taken to CJW Medical Center (Chippenam) for injuries that authorities said were not life-threatening. Police said it did not appear that the shootings were related.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Study criticizes Va.&#8216;s handling of youth offenders</title>
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The authority of Virginia&#8217;s juvenile-court judges is being usurped by prosecutors and higher courts in a process that too often mixes juvenile offenders and adults and that helps transform juvenile lawbreakers into career felons, according to a study released today. &#8220;Putting youth in the adult system ultimately makes communities less safe,&#8220; the study says.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Maryland man who killed N.Va. couple set to die tonight</title>
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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to block the execution of a Maryland man who was convicted of gunning down a Northern Virginia couple to win the love of a former stripper. Larry Bill Elliott, 60, is scheduled to be executed by electrocution at 9 tonight for the January 2001 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Dana Thrall and 30-year-old Robert Finch. The former Army counterintelligence worker would become the first Virginia inmate to die by electrocution since 2006 and the first nationwide since last year.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:01:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond drug dealer is sentenced to 30 years</title>
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A Richmond judge sentenced a man to 30 years in prison yesterday for a drug charge, refusing the defendant&#8217;s impassioned plea that the judge reduce a jury&#8217;s recommended sentence. The sentence marked the stiffest prison term in recent memory for a street-level drug conviction in Richmond Circuit Court, prosecutors said. It also highlights the gamble defendants take when they go to trial before a jury, and perhaps explains why so few do.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:01:05 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond judge upholds 30&#45;year recommended drug sentence</title>
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A Richmond judge sentenced a drug dealer to 30 years in prison today, refusing to suspend any of the sentence recommended by a jury. The sentence imposed by Judge Beverly W. Snukals on defendant Edward Antaion Baker marked the stiffest prison term in recent memory for a street-level drug dealer in Richmond Circuit Court, prosecutors said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:52:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Crime log for Nov. 11</title>
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Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 2500 block of Hull Street, between 6 p.m. Nov. 7 and 12:30 a.m. Nov. 8, items were stolen. 2000 block of North 29th Street, between 2 and 7:45 p.m. Nov. 7, someone stole televisions.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>1 killed, 1 injured in Newport News shooting</title>
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NEWPORT NEWS (AP)&#8212;Newport News police say a shooting has left one woman dead and another person in the hospital. The 42-year-old woman and 29-year-old man were shot early this morning in an apartment complex parking lot. Police found them sitting in their car in the parking lot of a different complex. Both had been shot several times, and the woman died at the scene. The man, who was not identified, was taken to an area hospital.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:22:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond prosecutor tackles city&#8217;s aggravated&#45;assault cases</title>
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There are homicides, and there are failed homicides. Sometimes the difference between life and death depends on the shooter&#8217;s aim and whether a bullet hits a vital organ. Sometimes it comes down to how close a victim was to the hospital when he was shot. Richmond prosecutor Michael E. Hollomon is the point man for the city&#8217;s worst aggravated-assault cases&#8212;the shootings, stabbings and other violent attacks that, however brutal, do not result in death.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond man acquitted in shooting</title>
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A Richmond man was acquitted Thursday of charges related to a shooting last spring on Chamberlayne Avenue in the city. After deliberating about an hour, a Richmond Circuit Court jury found Martin Lee Brown, 40, not guilty of aggravated malicious wounding and felony firearm charges in the March 29 wounding of a man at Chamberlayne and West Bacon Street.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Social media drive interest in missing&#45;person cases</title>
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The disappearance of Mechanicsville teenager Theresa Marie Meadows languished in relative obscurity from the time she vanished in September 2004&#8212;until she was located alive last week in South Carolina. On the flip side, the case of missing 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington has received intense state and national attention since she disappeared Oct. 17 after a Metallica concert in Charlottesville. A three-day search last weekend involved more than 500 volunteers.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Va. man shot, killed by police</title>
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FAIRFAX&#8212;Virginia police responding to a report of a theft in progress shot and killed a suspect. Fairfax County police identified the man Saturday as 52-year-old David Alan Masters of Fredericksburg. The shooting happened Friday at about 1 p.m. Masters was shot after failing to stop his car for police. Three officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation. Putting the officers on leave is a routine measure.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va. death&#45;row inmate scheduled to be electrocuted</title>
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If carried out, next week&#8217;s scheduled execution of Larry Bill Elliott will be by electrocution, the option he selected before his Oct. 5 execution date, which was delayed by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. &#8220;The attorney general&#8217;s office has advised us that no new choice is to be given. Elliott&#8217;s choice remains electrocution,&#8220; said Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:30 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Va. goes 20 months without a death verdict from a jury</title>
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Attention was drawn to Virginia this week with the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the state&#8217;s 104th person to be executed since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. Officials are preparing for another execution next week, but little noticed amid the recent activity in the state&#8217;s death chamber is that there has not been a death verdict from a jury in the state since March 2008.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:27 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Chesterfield man sentenced in hit&#45;and&#45;run</title>
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A Chesterfield County man who had been drinking and smoking marijuana before he fatally struck a teenage girl with his pickup truck&#8212;and then drove away&#8212;was sentenced yesterday to serve three years and 10 months in prison. Richmond Circuit Judge Walter W. Stout III sentenced Bryan Christopher Shull, 36, to 10 years in prison with seven suspended on his conviction of involuntary manslaughter, and five years with four years and two months suspended for felony hit-and-run driving.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Woman found guilty of neglect charge</title>
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A Richmond jury last night convicted Judy Wright of felony child neglect in the shooting death of her only granddaughter and recommended a two-year sentence, the least possible. Wright walked from the courtroom at 8:30 p.m. into the waiting arms of her adult children outside, released on bond pending formal sentencing Jan. 6. Wright did not testify during her trial.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond mother found guilty of neglect in grandchild&#8217;s death</title>
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A Richmond jury last night convicted Judy Wright of felony child neglect in the shooting death of her only granddaughter and recommended a two-year sentence, the least possible. Wright walked from the courtroom at 8:30 p.m. into the waiting arms of her adult children outside, released on bond pending formal sentencing Jan. 6. Wright did not testify during her trial.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond McDonald&#8217;s robbed; 3rd time in less than 5 months</title>
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A McDonald&#8217;s restaurant on Forest Hill Avenue in South Richmond was robbed at gunpoint this morning for the third time in less than five months. No injuries were reported and no shots were fired in the robbery, which occurred at 5:49 a.m. as employees of the fast-food restaurant at 6801 Forest Hill Ave., just across the street from Hathaway Road, were preparing to open the business for the day.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:22:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Man found fatally shot in Petersburg is identified</title>
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A man found fatally shot in Petersburg on Wednesday has been identified as Harry Stevenson, 25, who had been staying with friends in Richmond, police said. Petersburg authorities said Stevenson and another man, Shamondray Chavis, 20, of the 600 block of South Jefferson Street in Petersburg, were shot early Wednesday as they were attempting to break into a home in the 700 block of Ramsom Street about 7:30 a.m.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hanover missing&#45;person case has happy ending</title>
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A Mechanicsville teenager who vanished more than five years ago was located Wednesday in South Carolina after a Hanover County detective reworked an old lead in the puzzling case. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very good ending,&#8220; said Hanover sheriff&#8217;s Investigator Dave Klisz, who worked relentlessly over the years to find former Lee-Davis High School student Theresa Marie Meadows.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond boy, 11, testifies at mother&#8217;s neglect trial</title>
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An 11-year-old Richmond boy who allegedly shot and killed his 5-year-old niece took the stand yesterday in his mother&#8217;s felony child-neglect trial. The boy, who was 10 at the time of the Aug. 12, 2008, fatal shooting of Dominique Carter, spoke so softly while fidgeting in the witness box that he had to be asked repeatedly by Circuit Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. to talk clearly and into the microphone.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Former Okun employee gets 3 years in fraud case</title>
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The last of three former employees charged along with swindler Edward Hugh Okun was sentenced to three years in prison in federal court in Richmond yesterday. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne imposed a lower sentence than the five-year maximum called for under a plea agreement between former lawyer Richard B. Simring, once the chief legal officer of Okun Holdings Inc., and the government.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Amelia County couple reunited with stolen dogs</title>
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Two small dogs stolen from an Amelia County couple whose home was ransacked by burglars Wednesday were found yesterday about a block away. John Puryear said he was informed by the sheriff&#8217;s department after a neighbor saw dogs that met the description of Nikki, a 3-year-old Yorkshire terrier, and Indy, a 7-year-old Maltese. &#8220;They&#8217;re cold and freezing, but we have them now,&#8220; Puryear said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police sketch, DNA match help Henrico ID murder victim</title>
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A police sketch and a DNA hit have combined to reveal the identity of a 1991 murder victim. Henrico County police say they now need the public&#8217;s help in tracking down Cynthia Gilliam&#8217;s killer. Her body was discovered in 1991 along Evergreen Road, a little-used roadway connecting the Nine Mile Road area of eastern Henrico with Fulton Bottom in the city. It took 18 years to determine her identity.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:12:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Petersburg fatal shooting victim identified as Richmond man</title>
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A man found fatally shot in Petersburg yesterday was identified this afternoon as Harry Stevenson, 25, who had been staying with friends in Richmond, police said. Authorities today said Stevenson and another man, Shamondray Chavis, 20, of the 600 block of South Jefferson Street in Petersburg, were shot yesterday morning as they were attempting to break into a home in the 700 block of Ramsom Street about 7:30 a.m.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:16:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: Amelia couple reunited with stolen dogs</title>
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Two small dogs stolen from an Amelia County couple whose home was ransacked by burglars were found today about a block away.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:29 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Trial date set for owner of day care where child died</title>
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A trial date has been set for the owner of a Richmond day-care center where a child was left in a hot van and later died. Valerot Whitlow is to be tried Jan. 14 in Richmond Circuit Court on a single count of felony child neglect. Her trial is scheduled six days after her son, Keishawn L. Whitfield, is to be sentenced on two felony charges for his role in the death of Andrew Johnson.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Petersburg police probe 2 shootings, 1 death</title>
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Petersburg police are investigating two shootings less than two hours apart that left one man dead and another wounded. Authorities were alerted to the first shooting about 7:40 a.m. after a man with a gunshot wound that was not life-threatening appeared at Southside Regional Medical Center for treatment. At 9:34 a.m., police discovered a man with fatal gunshot wounds in the 600 block of Harrison Street. Esther Hyatt, a police spokeswoman, said she had no information about whether the two shootings were related.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond police seek tips on vehicles</title>
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Richmond police are asking for help in locating a dark-colored Jeep Wrangler that may have struck a pedestrian Saturday at North Boulevard and Kensington Avenue. The incident shortly after 2 a.m. resulted in a female pedestrian suffering several broken bones. The Wrangler, with round headlights, headed north on the Boulevard and was operated by a male.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Petersburg police investigate fatal shooting</title>
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Petersburg police are investigating the shooting death of a man who was discovered about 9:30 this morning in the 600 block of Harrison Street. Details were not immediately available. Police also reported that another person suffering from a gunshot wound arrived at Southside Regional Medical Center about 7:40 a.m. Esther Hyatt, a police spokeswoman, said she had no immediate information about whether the two shootings are related.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:26:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Trial set for second defendant in Richmond day&#45;care death</title>
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A trial date has been set for the owner of a Richmond day-care center where a child was left in a hot van and later died. Valerot Whitlow is to be tried Jan. 14 in Richmond Circuit Court on a single count of felony child neglect. Her trial is scheduled eight days after her son, Keishawn L. Whitfield, is to be sentenced on two felony counts for his role in the death of Andrew Johnson.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:02:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cary Street convenience store robbed at gunpoint</title>
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No injuries were reported late last night in the armed robbery of a convenience store along West Cary Street in Richmond. Richmond police Capt. Scott Booth said the robbery was reported at 9:30 p.m. at the Cary Street Mini Mart at 1317 W. Cary St. An employee said an unknown black male wearing a black mask and carrying a handgun demanded money, and when the employee complied, the robber fled on foot.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:34:08 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Muhammad executed for 2002 sniper killings</title>
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The man who played God with sniper fire seven years ago, ending 10 lives in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, was quietly executed by injection last night.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Recollections of the sniper rampage</title>
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Here is a selection, from comments made online and by e-mail, of people&#8217;s recollections of the anxiety and tensions created by the sniper shootings in 2002:   . . .  When the sniper was in the Richmond area, we were very concerned. We would drive to Richmond to visit son and daughter, and usually stopped, on U.S. 360 at the small shopping center near Amelia. As we would go into the McDonald&#8217;s there, I would look across the highway and see the woods where a sniper might easily hide.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Judgment deferred in Chesterfield student&#8217;s fake&#45;gun case</title>
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A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student was released from custody yesterday but placed on house arrest for a prank that involved running into an occupied classroom with a fake rifle and pointing it at students as he yelled. Judge Lynn S. Brice of Chesterfield Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court found the evidence against the teen sufficient for a finding of guilt but deferred judgment until Jan. 28 so a social history and psychological evaluation could be conducted.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Judgment deferred against Meadowbrook teen who pointed fake rifle at classmates</title>
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A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student was released from custody today but placed on house arrest for a prank that involved running into an occupied classroom with a fake rifle and pointing it at students as he yelled. Judge Lynn S. Brice of Chesterfield Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court found the evidence against the teen sufficient for a finding of guilt but deferred judgment until Jan. 28 so a social history and psychological evaluation could be conducted.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:06:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>No injuries in Richmond armed robbery</title>
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No injuries were reported last night in the armed robbery of a Richmond service station and convenience store. Richmond police Capt. Dave Martin said the robbery was reported at 8:50 p.m. at an Exxon station in the 4000 block of West Broad Street. The robber, a black male dressed in dark clothing and wearing a white baseball cap, came into the store, pointed a small black handgun at the clerk and ordered the clerk to lay on the floor, Martin said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:20:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bond denied in imposter case</title>
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A Chesterfield County man was ordered held without bond yesterday after his weekend arrest on charges of raping a woman while posing as a police officer. Johnny Eugene Quick, 44, of the 5100 block of Gention Road appeared briefly yesterday in Henrico County General District Court. He was arrested Saturday afternoon on charges of abduction, rape, impersonating a police officer and using a firearm in a felony.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Blackstone police searching for twin brothers</title>
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Blackstone police, with assistance from the Nottoway County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Virginia State Police, are looking for twin brothers in an assault that was followed by shots being fired into a vehicle and two residences, authorities said. Police have warrants for Lionel Leo Hardy and Lionell Lee Hardy, 23, charging them with malicious wounding and possession of a firearm by a felon.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Barring clemency, sniper to be executed tonight</title>
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John Allen Muhammad&#8217;s last hope is a petition before Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. Should Kaine decline to intervene, Muhammad is set to die by injection at 9 p.m. in the Greensville Correctional Center.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Chesterfield suspects one man in two bank robberies</title>
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Chesterfield County police are searching for a man they believe robbed two SunTrust bank branches, one on Saturday and the other this morning. 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:26:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Agents said they paid for sex acts at Richmond strip club</title>
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Two state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents testified today that they paid to watch sex between two female dancers at a Richmond strip club and had lap dances performed on themselves.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:06:10 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Chesterfield man charged with impersonating an officer and rape</title>
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A Chesterfield County man has been charged in Henrico County with impersonating a Richmond police officer and then raping a woman. Johnny Eugene Quick, 44, of the 5100 block of Gention Road is scheduled to make a court appearance this morning in Henrico General District Court after being arrested on a firearm charge along with charges of abduction, rape and impersonating a police officer, according to Henrico police.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police search for bank robbery suspect</title>
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Chesterfield County police are looking for a man who is suspected in yesterday&#8217;s robbery of a SunTrust bank at 13001 Hull Street Road. The suspect handed a teller a note that demanded money before he fled on foot, according to authorities. The suspect is described as a white man 25 to 30 years old with a dark goatee, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall and weighing 160 to 185 pounds. He wore dark sunglasses and a royal blue, long-sleeve hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a black stocking cap.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:01:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Muhammad execution nears, some victims&#8217; families move on</title>
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For three weeks in 2002, John Allen Muhammad led a two-man sniper team that struck on his orders, claimed 10 lives and deliberately terrorized Virginia, Maryland and Washington. &#8220;Call me God,&#8220; police were told in notes left at the scene of two attacks. He is set to be executed by injection Tuesday for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, shot in the head from long distance at a Manassas-area service station the evening of Oct. 9, 2002.           ]]></description>
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Bryan T. Norwood entered an awkward political environment when he started as Richmond&#8217;s police chief just over a year ago. Norwood, the former police chief in Bridgeport, Conn., had been selected by outgoing Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder, and he started as chief the day before the election of a new mayor, Dwight C. Jones, who had called for the appointment to be left to the new administration.           ]]></description>
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Police officers and firefighters from around the Richmond region were recognized yesterday for their selfless acts of bravery. They risked their lives to rescue people from burning trucks, water-submerged cars, smoke-filled buildings and collapsed trenches. They also apprehended dangerous criminals with guns. And for their efforts, they were awarded gold, silver and bronze awards at the 20th annual Valor Awards breakfast at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.           ]]></description>
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A driver for a Richmond day-care center faces 15 years in prison after being convicted in the death of a 13-month-old boy who was left in a van used by the center on a hot July day. Keishawn L. Whitfield was convicted yesterday by Richmond Circuit Judge Beverly W. Snukals after a trial that lasted nearly three hours. Whitfield, 24, is to be sentenced Jan. 8, when he could get up to 10 years for involuntary manslaughter and five years for felony child neglect.           ]]></description>
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Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 1600 block of Monteiro Street, between 9:15 a.m. and 5 p.m. Oct. 29, someone stole electronics. 5400 block of Bryce Lane, between 6 p.m. Oct. 26 and 1 a.m. Oct. 29, someone stole electronics.           ]]></description>
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A Richmond day-care center&#8217;s driver was convicted today on two felony charges related to his role in the death of a child who was inadvertently left in the facility&#8217;s van on a hot summer day. Keishawn L. Whitfield, 24, was convicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect. He is to be sentenced Jan. 8 by Richmond Circuit Judge Beverly W. Snukals.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Teen pulled from James, then charged</title>
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Cold teen pulled from James River after police pursuit A 17-year-old boy was pulled from the James River in Chesterfield County yesterday morning after police said he jumped into the water while eluding police during a traffic stop. The incident began about 7:25 a.m. on Robious Road when a Chesterfield officer using radar clocked a car traveling 71 mph in a 45-mph zone. Police said that when the officer tried to stop the car, the motorist continued to drive and turned from Robious onto James River Road, where Bettie Weaver Elementary and James River High schools are located.           ]]></description>
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A 14-year-old girl reported missing more than a week ago by authorities in New York was found early today in the company of a man at a hotel in Richmond. Richmond police arrested the man; the girl was being held by authorities in Richmond while her parents came down to get her. Capt. Harvey S. Powers said Richmond police were contacted just before midnight by detectives from Saugerties, N.Y., a town along the Hudson River about 90 miles north of New York City.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police have several suspects in one set of robberies in the Fan District and neighborhoods around Virginia Commonwealth University, with three people in custody and two more possibly facing indictment on robbery charges next month. Police have charged two men from Henrico County and one from the city&#8217;s East End in six armed robberies in the Fan, Oregon Hill and Carver neighborhoods from late August through mid-September. They said two other suspects may have been involved in the robberies, which were carried out with a driver waiting nearby in a car.           ]]></description>
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The Virginia attorney general&#8217;s office said yesterday that there is no evidence John Allen Muhammad&#8217;s lawyers had reason to think he was mentally ill when he asked to represent himself at his 2003 trial. To the contrary, Muhammad demonstrated his competence to stand trial, &#8220;to everyone in the courtroom,&#8220; the attorney general&#8217;s office said in its response to an appeal filed by Muhammad with the U.S. Supreme Court this week.           ]]></description>
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Moving testimony from teachers, family and friends&#8212;and an assist from the prosecution&#8212;may have kept a police impersonator found guilty of attempted abduction out of prison. In an unusual court maneuver, Henrico County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Wade A. Kizer asked yesterday for a halt in a sentencing hearing that could have resulted in a mandatory, three-year prison sentence against Shay Cameron Mann.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Mechanicsville doctor Torino R. &#8220;Tee&#8221; Jennings was sentenced to a year and one day in prison yesterday for writing tens of thousands of prescriptions over the Internet for people he never met or examined and failing to pay taxes on his earnings. Jennings, 36, a former staff physician at Retreat Doctors&#8217; Hospital, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston, where he pleaded guilty in July to seven counts of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and four counts of tax evasion. He faced a maximum prison term of 27 years and $1.7 million in fines.           ]]></description>
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Mechanicsville doctor Torino R. Jennings was sentenced to a year and one day in prison today for writing for writing tens of thousands of prescriptions over the Internet for people he never met or examined and failing to pay taxes on his earnings. Jennings, 36, a former staff physician at Retreat Doctors&#8217; Hospital, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston, where he pleaded guilty in July to seven counts of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and four counts of tax evasion.           ]]></description>
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Henrico County&#8217;s chief prosecutor agreed this morning to reconsider a case against a man found guilty in August of impersonating a police officer and attempted abduction. Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Wade Kizer said after a closed hearing in a judge&#8217;s chambers that he may seek to alter convictions against Shay Cameron Mann. Retired Circuit Judge James E. Kulp ordered that a sentencing hearing be continued until Nov. 24 to give Kizer and Mann&#8217;s defense lawyer time to explore whether there is a process by which Mann&#8217;s convictions can be amended.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:40:01 EST</pubDate>
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A ball-peen hammer and a wood-splitting maul were used to bludgeon four people found dead inside a Longwood University professor&#8217;s home in September, a source close to the investigation confirmed yesterday.
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Authorities believe two weapons&#8212;a ball-peen hammer and a wood-splitting maul&#8212;were used to bludgeon four people to death inside a Longwood University professor&#8217;s home in September, a source close to the investigation confirmed yesterday. Also yesterday, Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III of Castro Valley, Calif., was served with indictments on six counts of capital murder in the bludgeoning deaths of professor Debra S. Kelley, 53; her estranged husband, Mark Niederbrock, 50; their daughter, Emma Niederbrock, 16; and Melanie Wells, 18, Emma&#8217;s friend from Inwood, W.Va. All four were discovered dead Sept. 18 in Kelley&#8217;s Farmville home.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A man suspected of fatally shooting four men in the parking lot of a North Carolina television shop was arrested early Monday in Virginia, police said. Police in Mount Airy, N.C., said Marcos Chavez Gonzalez was arrested without incident at a motel in Henry County, about 50 miles northeast of Mount Airy near the state line. He was charged with four counts of murder.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Prince William County police say two Forest Park High School students who died in Triangle on Monday night agreed to commit suicide. Bob Patrick found his 17-year-old daughter, Desiree, and 18-year-old Quirinius S. &#8220;Rain&#8221; Williams, dead Monday evening in her bedroom. Police say both suffered gunshot wounds, police said. Patrick found them when he returned to his home about 5 p.m.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A 16-year-old Hanover County student who is charged with attacking a fellow student with an ax is getting support from an online petition. Friends of Omar has formed to persuade Hanover prosecutors not to try Omar K. Abdelaal as an adult. Abdelaal was arrested Oct. 23 outside a Mechanicsville farm-supply store, where police say he struck a fellow Lee-Davis High School student with an ax, severely wounding the 15-year-old. The victim needed more than 100 stitches to repair damage to his face from a single blow, authorities said.           ]]></description>
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A Henrico County man is facing a Dec. 8 court appearance after his arrest on a bank robbery charge last week. A search warrant indicates that Henrico police were able to track Stefan R. Etz, 47, to his home in the 8500 block of Weldon Drive about six blocks from the bank because of a telltale description from witnesses. They told police that the robbery Friday at 1 p.m. was carried out by a man who fled on an orange-and-white motor scooter with a Jesus sticker, who was about 5-foot-4 and who had a bushy beard.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police say they are still investigating the circumstances of a North Richmond shooting that left four people wounded just after midnight Saturday, with at least one victim suffering life-threatening injuries. The shootings occurred at a gathering in a residence in the 3000 block of Barton Avenue. Two victims, one with life-threatening injuries, were taken from there to VCU Medical Center, police said in a news release.           ]]></description>
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A young woman who was raped at gunpoint last year by a local church official benevolently forgave her attacker yesterday shortly before he was sentenced to 33 years in prison. But Oscar A. Rivera-Licona, 35, rebuffed his victim&#8217;s offer of absolution. Instead, the former head deacon of the Richmond Evangelistic Center of Seventh-day Adventist questioned the veracity of the woman he raped despite DNA evidence linking him to the crime.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police say they are still investigating the circumstances of a North Richmond shooting that left four people wounded just after midnight Sunday, with at least one victim suffering life-threatening injuries. The shootings occurred at a gathering in a residence in the 3000 block of Barton Avenue. Two victims, one with life-threatening injuries, were taken from there to VCU Medical Center, police said in a news release.           ]]></description>
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DALE CITY&#8212;Two teenage girls reported being abducted and raped after trick-or-treating Saturday. About 9:10 p.m., police were called to investigate the abduction of three teenage girls. The victims told police they were walking in the area of Glendale Plaza in the 4300 block of Dale Boulevard after trick-or-treating, Prince William County police spokeswoman Erika Hernandez said.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police say this morning that four people were shot just after midnight in North Richmond, and at least one victim has life-threatening injuries.
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          <title>UPDATE: State Police identify man in fatal crash on Chippenham Parkway</title>
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A motorcyclist was killed after he wrecked on the Chippenham Parkway while being pursued by Virginia State Police, authorities said early today.
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Richmond police are investigating a shooting last night in the Whitcomb Court public housing complex. 
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          <title>Victim&#8217;s father witnesses aftermath of second crime</title>
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Michael Anthony Brewton stepped off the bus last night within a block from where his son was fatally stabbed two days before, only to stumble onto the aftermath of another violent crime. A few minutes before Brewton got off the bus in downtown Richmond, a 19-year-old man was punched and robbed shortly before 7 p.m. outside the old Central National Bank building at 219 E. Broad St. on the south side of Broad, police said.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police are investigating a shooting last night in the Whitcomb Court public-housing complex. A man in his 20s was walking in the 2300 block of Ambrose Street about 9 p.m. when a shot fired from a vehicle hit him in the torso. He was taken to VCU Medical Center with injuries described as life-threatening. No arrest was immediately made.           ]]></description>
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Hanover County authorities say they had to end a DUI checkpoint early today because four of the five deputies made arrests, leaving too few resources to continue.
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There will be no tricks, treats or Halloween parties this year for many of Virginia&#8217;s convicted sex criminals. Officers with the Virginia Department of Corrections and the Virginia State Police are teaming up again to make sure registered sex offenders who are under state supervision won&#8217;t cause any harm to young ghouls and goblins.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Jury convicts Hanover man of involuntary manslaughter</title>
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A Hanover County man once facing life in prison on a charge of murdering his longtime girlfriend will serve no more than 10 years. A Hanover jury last night found Derek E. Burkhead, 26, guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a two-day trial. When the verdict from the eight-woman, four-man jury was read at 9:20 last night, Burkhead appeared numb and speechless. Another jury eight months ago found him guilty of second-degree murder in the same case and recommended a 25-year sentence. That verdict was stricken because of a procedural error, resulting in the third mistrial of the case.           ]]></description>
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A Middlesex County man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for distribution of methadone, in one case to a man who died of an overdose as a result. Taylor Drew Munson, 22, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne under the terms of a plea agreement. He admitted distributing liquid methadone prescribed for his own use from April 2008 to March 2009.           ]]></description>
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A federal judge in Richmond delayed sentencing in a local child-pornography case yesterday, concerned about the rationale behind the sentencing guidelines in such cases. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne reset yesterday&#8217;s scheduled sentencing of James Turner Yager, 31, to Dec. 4. Yager, of Chesterfield County, was convicted twice this decade of distribution of child pornography, in 2001 and in July.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police charged a man with murder last night in the fatal daylight stabbing of another man on a busy commercial strip in downtown Richmond. They identified the suspect as Desean Q. Trent, 27.           ]]></description>
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Derek Edward Burkhead&#8217;s road to innocence or prison has been stymied by fainting spells, three mistrials and, yesterday, by an early morning jail cell fight. But the murder defendant appeared for trial yesterday with a swollen jaw, a new defense lawyer and a renewed plea of not guilty. &#8220;He says he&#8217;s ready to proceed,&#8220; attorney John Honey said of his client yesterday morning before a clerk asked for Burkhead&#8217;s pleas to a second-degree murder charge and felony use of a firearm.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. CHESTERFIELD POLICE 7200 block of Andersons Forge, between 10:30 p.m. Oct. 25 and 7 p.m. Oct. 26, someone stole money and firearms. 2500 block of Gwynn Avenue, between 3 a.m. Oct. 22 and 10 a.m. Oct. 26, stolen electronics.           ]]></description>
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A Henrico County mother and her daughter were convicted Wednesday of misdemeanors stemming from a Broad Street wreck that sent an unrestrained 2-year-old through the driver&#8217;s-side window. Latori Carter, 19, of the 7000 block of Miami Avenue and her mother, Tracy Carter, 39, of the 8200 block of Elswick Lane, received no jail time in a case that saw multiple felony charges reduced or dismissed.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Authorities arrested a man they say tried to kill himself by setting fire to a house in Richmond&#8217;s East End, only to be rescued by firefighters from the burning building. Authorities charged David Junious McLean Jr., 34, with arson after the fire that started late Wednesday night in the 1200 block of North 26th Street. The blaze was reported at 11:43 p.m. When the first fire trucks arrived, the two-story house was ablaze.           ]]></description>
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