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Bill would allow school staff to carry weapons at school. Gov. Evers threatens veto.

The Germantown School Board is getting more support from some Republican state lawmakers to arm teachers and staff with guns.

During the last 10 years more than a million background checks have been conducted for gun purchases, only 13,600 have been rejected.

Gov. Ralph Northam asked to posthumously pardon Martinsville 7 Seven Black men were executed for raping a white woman in 1949, but some say investigation was a sham Updated:  Tags:  MARTINSVILLE, Va. – As Black History Month begins, a Southside group is calling on Gov. Ralph Northam to pardon seven men from a case more than 70 years ago. The Martinsville Seven are seven Black men, executed after they were convicted of raping a white woman in 1949. Now decades later, they continue to question the integrity of the investigation. The newspaper headline from “The Afro-American” read “Do...

In late 1950 and early 1951, seven Black men awaited death in Virginia’s electric chair in the rape of a white woman, drawing attention to Richmond from across the country