Archive for the ‘General Interest’ Category
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
Effective immediately, the new address for the Department of Criminal Justice Services is:
Department of Criminal Justice Services
202 North Ninth Street
10th Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219
During the weeks of July 4 through July 16, 2005, the Department is re-locating to the Ninth Street office building. New stationary and letterhead ...
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Reacting to angry protests from several of its top sponsors, Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a media report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors.
Companies such as ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
The government plans to release new rules for controversial car black boxes this summer, according to a spokesman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Contrary to expectations, the rules don't require automakers to install the boxes in every car, but they do require the boxes to record a minimum of ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
BY ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF
A Brooklyn cop was caught on videotape running away while his hero partner was wounded in a barrage of bullets on a Brownsville street last week, high-ranking police sources told the Daily News yesterday.
The damning video prompted Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to strip Police ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
NEPTUNE BEACH, FL -- Dan Juliana pulled into his driveway early Sunday morning after a long night of work. He says as he got out his car, someone stepped out of the darkness and stuck a gun in his face.
Neptune Beach Police say the robber took Dan's wallet and then ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
DNA from leftover burgers has led to the arrest of three Emporia men who robbed a Suffolk fast-food restaurant more than a year ago.
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
Police say advanced technology in mobile phones is behind a steep rise in vehicle crime in south Manchester.
Thieves are using new ?blue-tooth? phones to detect whether motorists have left mobiles or laptops in their cars. The ?blue-tooth? facility enables thieves to locate compatible electrical items ? even if they are ...
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Friday, June 17th, 2005
Breath test refusal rates nationwide have remained stable at about one-quarter of all drivers arrested for DWI from 1996 to 2001. States with statistically significant changes in refusal rates are split evenly between those with increases and those with decreases. In five case-study States, first-time offenders generally constitute ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
Do you have a geek for a dad? Are you the geek dad who wants to direct his family to the best places to get your battery powered father's day gifts? Well try these places and you should end up with a really cool gift:
American Science & Surplus
Extreme ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Congratulations to all of the officers and deputies who participated in the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics. This year, as usual, is shaping up to be another great effort by the law enforcement community.
Lt. Schwarzer, of the Radford Department of Police, wrote to say he ran a ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
TRUE or FALSE: Spent shell casings ejected from a semiautomatic handgun at a shooting scene can reliably tell where a shooter stood when he fired rounds.
In keeping with law enforcement lore, most officers, firearms trainers and crime scene investigators would likely say that's true, given the operational consistency of a ...
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
"The world we have made as a result of the level of the thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level (of consciousness) at which we have created them. . .We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
In this world of fibs, bent rules and blame shifting, it rare to run into a person or business that goes against the trend. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Skyline Cleaners & Shirt Laundry on College Avenue in Salem is one such business.
My wife recently picked up ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
The FCC's ruling Thursday to require VOIP providers to make Enhanced 911 service a mandatory feature for their phone service highlighted a question that all too many people had previously taken for granted: Why didn't VOIP service providers let customers know that before this ruling, E911 was not a standard ...
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