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Police in Missouri investigated two shootings with multiple victims in the same area of Kansas City early Sunday morning.

Roanoke Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell sat down with 10 News to talk about the challenges his office faces when it comes to prosecuting people who commit violent crimes.

One of the top priorities for Roanoke city council in 2023 is going to be addressing and combatting gun violence in the city.

With the tragic shootings at a Walmart in Chesapeake and at the University of Virginia, security experts are showing people how to be prepared in an emergency.

A teenager’s death over the weekend and other recent shootings have Roanoke city leaders re-evaluating what’s working and what’s not in their efforts to combat gun violence.

After several mass shootings have plagued our nation, one security expert is training a group of professionals to be prepared for the worst.

The Roanoke City Police Department is investigating two early morning shootings in Northwest Roanoke.

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A man is dead and two others are injured following two separate shootings that happened just four hours apart from each other, according to the Roanoke Police Department.

An empty parking lot along Melrose Avenue will transform into a place for the Roanoke community to gather and heal on Saturday.

New data from the Roanoke Police Department shows the majority of gun violence occurs within less than two miles radius of the city. The new data was presented at the Tuesday night’s Gun Violence Prevention Commission meeting.

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The shootings at three massage parlors in Atlanta on Tuesday night left eight people dead and six of them reported to be Asian women. Public officials are concerned that the attacks could’ve been racially motivated.

A police officer engages with a protester Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Seattle, where streets had been blocked off in an area demonstrators had occupied for weeks. Seattle police showed up in force earlier in the day at the "occupied" protest zone, tore down demonstrators' tents and used bicycles to herd the protesters after the mayor ordered the area cleared following two fatal shootings in less than two weeks. The "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" zone was set up near downtown following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Collective bargaining agreements for officers provide protections that stand in the way of accountability, even when the federal government is overseeing an agency through a consent decree, experts said. Contracts designed to ensure officers receive fair wages and benefits have spilled over into public policy. These examples bolster the hypothesis that some union contract provisions may impede effective investigations of police misconduct and shield problematic officers from discipline, Rushin said. The city entered into a settlement agreement, or consent decree, the following year and passed an accountability measure for additional oversight. One Seattle officer who benefited from the union contract in recent years was Cynthia Whitlach.

Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, right, speaks during a news conference Monday, June 15, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. Warren announced his decision not to prosecute dozens of protesters arrested on charges of unlawful assembly during a Black Lives Matter march on June 2. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)TOP OF THE HOUR: Florida state attorney won't prosecute peaceful protesters. State Attorney Andrew Warren in Tampa said that his office wont be filing charges against 67 protesters who were arrested two weeks ago in downtown Tampa. The prosecutors office will also work to expunge the arrest records of the protesters who were taken into custody, he said. In these unlawful assembly cases, there is no value in filing charges, Warren said at a news conference.

Now there is another, a still-growing American casualty list that has exceeded deaths from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. Actual deaths from COVID-19 are almost certainly higher than the numbers show, an undercount to be corrected in time. It is well beyond what he told people to expect even as his public-health authorities started bracing the country in early April for at least 100,000 deaths. Unlike his emotional vice president, Joe Biden, Obama practiced his own kind of social distancing, to the point of aloofness. This, too, is not Trump's way.