Denise Lavoie, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Lawyer Diane Toscano, who represents Abigail Zwerner, the Newport News teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student, reads a statement to media on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Newport News, Va. (Mike Caudill/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

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Lawyer: Va. school administration warned 3 times boy had gun

by Denise Lavoie Associated PressJanuary 25, 2023

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Concerned staff warned administrators at a Virginia elementary school three times that a 6-year-old boy had a gun and was threatening other students in the hours before he shot and wounded a teacher, but the administration “was…

Newport News Superintendent of Schools George Parker makes remarks on the safety parameters currently in place at the city's schools during a press conference at the Newport News School Administration Building in Newport News, Va., on Monday Jan. 9, 2023. A Virginia police chief said a 6-year-old student fired the handgun that wounded a Virginia first-grade teacher while she was teaching class on Friday, Jan. 6 at Richneck Elementary School. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

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School searched 1st-grader’s backpack before teacher shot

by Denise Lavoie Associated PressJanuary 13, 2023

Messages of support for teacher Abby Zwerner, who was shot by a 6 year old student, grace the front door of Richneck Elementary School Newport News, Va. on Monday Jan. 9, 2023. The Virginia teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old student is known as a hard-working educator who’s devoted to her students and enthusiastic about the profession that runs in her family. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

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Vigil planned for Va. teacher shot by student, 6

by Ben Finley Associated Press, and Denise Lavoie Associated PressJanuary 9, 2023

Meredith Flattum, a second year biology student at the University of Virginia, visits a memorial to three students who were killed in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The violence at the state’s flagship public university has set off days of mourning among students and faculty, the broader Charlottesville community and other supporters. Classes resumed Wednesday, as the school announced it was canceling its final home game of the season scheduled for the weekend...

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Prosecutor: U.Va. shooting victims were targeted

by Denise Lavoie Associated PressNovember 16, 2022

Snow plows pushes snow to the side of northbound Interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County, Va., on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Hundreds of motorists were stranded on Monday, after a winter storm snarled traffic in Virginia and left some drivers stuck in place for nearly 24 hours in freezing temperatures along an impassable stretch of Interstate 80 south of the nation's capital. (Tristan Lorei

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Va. officials defend response to I-95 mess

by Sarah Rankin Associated Press, and Denise Lavoie Associated PressJanuary 5, 2022

FILE - White nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. A jury began deliberations Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in a civil trial of white nationalists accused of conspiring to commit racially motivated violence at the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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White nationalists ordered to pay $26M in Charlottesville violence

by Denise Lavoie Associated PressNovember 23, 2021

Crews remove the torso of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, one of the country's largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Robert E. Lee dethroned

by Sarah Rankin Associated Press, and Denise Lavoie Associated PressSeptember 8, 2021

In this Nov. 5, 2020 file photo, The Supreme Court is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Supreme Court won’t revive school’s trans bathroom ban

by Denise Lavoie Associated Press, and Mark Sherman Associated PressJune 28, 2021

James Jordan appears after a competency hearing at the U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Va. July 3, 2019. Jordan is scheduled to go on trial in January in the killing of an Appalachian Trail hiker and wounding of another.

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Defendant in Appalachian Trail killing to plead insanity

by Denise Lavoie Associated PressSeptember 23, 2020

Susan Bro, center, mother of Heather Heyer who was killed in 2017 during a white supremacist rally, Gets a hug from a supporter after the sentencing of James Alex Fields Jr. in federal court in Charlottesville, Va., Friday, June 28, 2019. Fields was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a car attack during a white supremacist rally in 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Life sentence for killing at Charlottesville protest

by Denise Lavoie Associated PressJune 29, 2019