Preliminary Hearing
  • People
    • Coal miners wage long fights for black lung benefits
    • Danville mother of three faces deportation
    • Madre de tres de Danville se enfrenta a la deportación
    • Superintendent sees self as ‘mayor’ of Rockbridge jail
    • Cop takes good with bad policing small town
    • Legal aid lawyer wears many hats
    • Lexington’s only female investigator bonds with victims
    • Magistrate takes it one adventure at a time
    • Local cop uses hometown connections to solve crime
    • Prosecutor doesn’t keep score in seeking justice
    • To W&L students local lawyer a ‘dealmaker’
    • Young attorney stands up for kids caught in middle
    • First female prosecutor uses youth to advantage
    • Police bike patrol: ‘Not a lazy cop’s assignment’
    • Defense attorney a Buena Vista fixture for decades
  • Alcohol
    • W&L students say cops too tough on underage drinking
    • Risky Mix at W&L: Binge Drinking and Sex
  • Drugs
    • Bad Choices: More Rockbridge women dealing drugs
    • Buys and busts, a popular, controversial police tactic
    • Woman says she sold crack to buy refrigerator and stove
    • Wrong crowd leads local woman to use and sell drugs
    • Goshen woman used drugs to stay on the road
    • Prescription drugs easy to access, easy to abuse
    • Students use drugs to get high–and higher grades
    • Illegal prescription drug abuse a ‘hidden issue’
    • A BV man says prescription drug abuse landed him in jail
    • Meth abuse wrecks lives, stretches local resources
  • Violence
    • UVA murder exposes flaws in access to protective orders
    • Family, city of Lynchburg cope with elderly man’s murder
    • Roanoke neo-Nazi charged with encouraging violence against juror
    • W&L students seek reversal of S.C. man’s conviction
  • Video
    • Preliminary Hearing News Magazine
    • Buys and busts, a popular, controversial police tactic
    • Woman says she sold crack to buy refrigerator and stove
    • Wrong crowd leads local woman to use and sell drugs
    • Goshen woman used drugs to stay on the road
    • Prescription drugs easy to access, easy to abuse
    • Illegal prescription drug abuse a ‘hidden issue’
    • A BV man says prescription drug abuse landed him in jail
    • W&L students say cops too tough on underage drinking
    • Danville mother of three faces deportation
    • Meth abuse wrecks lives, stretches local resources
    • UVA murder exposes flaws in access to protective orders
    • Family, city of Lynchburg cope with elderly man’s murder
    • Risky Mix at W&L: Binge Drinking and Sex
    • Roanoke neo-Nazi charged with encouraging violence against juror
    • W&L students seek reversal of S.C. man’s conviction
  • About Us
  • Archive
    • 2017 Final Projects
      • From families to felonies: Judge makes transition from children to adults in Rockbridge County Circuit Court
      • Rehab or prison? Local law enforcers’ battle against meth
      • Speeders push limits of the law on area interstates
      • Post-Charlottesville violence, Lexington officials prepare for parades celebrating King, Lee and Jackson in January
      • New police chief embraces Lexington’s small town charm
      • Guilty pleas common in Rockbridge criminal court
      • Changes underway at Rockbridge County jail as investigation into beatings of sex offenders continues
    • 2015 Final Project
      • Coal miners wage long fights for black lung benefits
    • 2014 Final Projects
      • Livestock Thefts Baffle Farmers, Puzzle Police
      • Thefts of cattle, goats costly to local farmers
      • What happened to Sophie, the pygmy goat?
      • Immigrants face paper obstacle course to stay in U.S.
      • Immigrants navigate bureaucracy to stay in U.S.
      • From Guatemala to Virginia: A boy flees gangs, violence
    • 2013 Final Project
      • Rockbridge County’s ‘Hidden City’
    • 2012 Final Project
      • Bad Choices: More Rockbridge women dealing drugs
      • Buys and busts, a popular, controversial police tactic
      • Woman says she sold crack to buy refrigerator and stove
      • Wrong crowd leads local woman to use and sell drugs
      • Goshen woman used drugs to stay on the road
    • 2011 Final Projects
      • Prescription drugs easy to access, easy to abuse
      • Students use drugs to get high–and higher grades
      • Illegal prescription drug abuse a ‘hidden issue’
      • A BV man says prescription drug abuse landed him in jail
      • W&L students say cops too tough on underage drinking
      • Danville mother of three faces deportation
      • Madre de tres de Danville se enfrenta a la deportación
      • Meth abuse wrecks lives, stretches local resources
      • UVA murder exposes flaws in access to protective orders
    • 2010 Final Project
      • Family, city of Lynchburg cope with elderly man’s murder
    • 2009 Final Projects
      • Risky Mix at W&L: Binge Drinking and Sex
      • Roanoke neo-Nazi charged with encouraging violence against juror
    • 2008 Final Project
      • W&L students seek reversal of S.C. man’s conviction

Order in the Court: Rockbridge judge settles into role

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Meth addiction continues to plague community

Meth addiction continues to plague community

Drivers speed their way to fines, jail in Virginia

Drivers speed their way to fines, jail in Virginia

Lexington prepares for dueling parades in January

Lexington prepares for dueling parades in January

New Lexington chief adjusts to small town

New Lexington chief adjusts to small town

Most local criminal cases end in guilty pleas

Most local criminal cases end in guilty pleas

Jail changes underway during investigation

Jail changes underway during investigation

  • About Us

Professor Toni Locy
201 Reid Hall
Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communications
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
locyt@wlu.edu
540.458.8434

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