Killer's sanity scrutinized in Va.
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From their cells on Virginia's death row, the inmates can hear Percy Walton laughing. His chuckles come from nowhere, inmates say, and are often mixed with shouts and incoherent babbling.
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News directors: UPDATES with additional details JARRATT, Va.  _ A Halifax County man who pleaded guilty to killing three neighbors in a long-running dispute over a driveway was executed tonight.
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Â· Family describe man who killed wife as tortured soul Â· Husband had been treated for mental illness
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A woman has been charged with animal cruelty for what police call a retaliatory killing of a parakeet. Witnesses told police that Andrea Grantham, of Martinsburg, brandished a knife during a weekend property dispute with a neighbor.
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Pleas for more money for mental health care, substance-abuse counseling and services for the disabled dominated a public hearing in Fairfax County yesterday before General Assembly budget writers, who came to George Mason University to listen to the wants and needs of Northern Virginians.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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A gruesome murder and an influential defendant make for a riveting courtroom drama
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Relatives of student gunman who killed 32 on Virginia Tech campus turned over his mental health records to a gubernatorial panel investigating the shootings.
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The panel appointed by the governor to investigate the massacre at Virginia Tech is critical of the university's response to the shootings and its treatment of Seung Hui Cho, concluding that some lives could have been saved if officials had issued an alert sooner that a gunman was on campus.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 5--When W. Shelton Miles dropped a bomb on the state Senate subcommittee, you could almost see the blood drain from one lawmaker's face.  "This is extraordinarily unusual," said Sen. John Watkins, R-Powhatan.
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A report finds a series of failings in the care of a psychiatric patient who killed a stranger on a beach.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 24--After the mass murder in April of 32 people at Virginia Tech University and the disclosure that the gunman suffered from mental illness, Faisal Ahmed wanted to provide Mid-Missourians access to information about mental health.
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Relatives of the Virginia Tech shooting victims are demanding representation on a gubernatorial panel studying the killings, saying in a letter Monday they feel "ostracized." They are also questioning the status of a memorial fund that has generated millions of dollars.
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Authorities are reviewing Virginia's DNA databank &#151; the nation's first and most extensive &#151; after an investigation found that many felons were omitted.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- People have told investigators that Michael Vick was involved in a dogfighting operation at a house he owns in Surry County, the sheriff said Wednesday, and Vick will be charged if investigators can find evidence backing those claims.
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By Justin Davenport, Oliver Finegold And Bo Wilson, Evening Standard. A former mental patient was being questioned today after the knife rampage which left one man dead and five other people seriously injured.
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The forensic science of processing and identifying the dead