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Chesapeake crabbers not going for Va.'s buyout

AP News 8 days ago

Va. dangles $6.7M to lure watermen out of the Chesapeake Bay crab business, gets few bites To ease pressures on the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population, Virginia is paying watermen to stay out of the water, using $6.7 million in federal disaster ...

Virginia’s Price Gouging Statute Activated As Storm Batters the East

consumeraffairs.com 8 days ago

Tropical Storm Ida and coastal Nor'easter bring high water, power failures Virginia Attorney General Bill Mims has announced that the state's Anti-Price Gouging Statute, which prohibits the charging of “unconscionable” prices for “necessary goods and services,” has been activated as the remnants ...

Warming drives off Cape Cod's namesake, other fish

AP News 9 days ago

Off New England, warming ocean drives fish away from shore _ and market bins Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates ...

DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad Executed In Virginia

Getty Images 10 days ago

JARRATT, VA - NOVEMBER 10: Corrections officers stand watch outside the Greensville Correctional Center November 10, 2009 near Jarratt, Virginia. DC sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed at the center by lethal injection at 9 p.m. for the shooting death of Dean ...

Recent federal civilian and military executions

AP News 10 days ago

Recent federal civilian and military executions Since the resumption of capital punishment in 1977 after a roughly 10-year hiatus, only three men have been put to death by the federal government, all for murder and all in the civilian justice system. The ...

Sniper who terrorized Washington area is executed

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 10 days ago

JARRATT, Virginia (Reuters) - John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region a year after the September 11 and the ...

Countdown to execution for Washington sniper

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

The Washington sniper was to be executed Tuesday for a three-week reign of terror in 2002 that left 10 people dead, paralyzed the capital and triggered one of the largest manhunts in US history. Virginia Governor Tim Kaine turned down a last-minute ...

Washington sniper to be executed

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

The Washington sniper was to be executed Tuesday for his three-week reign of terror in 2002 that left 10 people dead and spread fear around the US capital as he picked off victims at will. Virginia Governor Tim Kaine turned down a ...

Sniper Execution

AP News 11 days ago

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002 file photo made from WJZ-TV video, the car in which two men connected with the recent sniper attacks in the Metro DC area were arrested is pushed into a facility in Rockville, Md. John ...

US Supreme Court refuses to stop sniper execution

AP Features 12 days ago

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad. The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal. Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison ...

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