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After two hours of testimony and evidence, a Lynchburg police lieutenant was found not guilty Wednesday of assaulting a neighbor in an off-duty incident in May.

A judge acquitted a Midlothian man Tuesday of killing a pedestrian in Colonial Heights while under the influence of alcohol, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove the driver was impaired even though his blood alcohol content was at the presumptive legal threshold for intoxication. The victim, who was mentally disabled, also had been drinking. After a three-hour trial in Colonial Heights Circuit Court, Judge David E. Johnson found Shane Erick Dent, 35, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter an...