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Andrea Noble

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Andrea Noble was a crime and public safety reporter for The Washington Times.

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe speaks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington after a meeting with the Virginia congressional delegation on May 24, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Terry McAuliffe, Va. governor, restores voting rights of 13,000 felons

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that he has individually restored the voting rights of 13,000 felons, a move undertaken after the state Supreme Court rescinded a prior executive action that restored the right to vote en masse to more than 200,000 former inmates.

August 22, 2016
Trousdale Turner Correctional Center is shown Tuesday, May 24, 2016, in Hartsville, Tenn. Tennessee's newest prison has had to halt new admissions after just four months of full operation. A memorandum from a state prison official about the privately run facility says guards there do not have control of the housing units, aren't counting inmates correctly, and are sending them to solitary confinement for no documented reason. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) ** FILE **

Justice Dept. to end use of privately run prisons

The Justice Department plans to curtail and eventually end the use of privately run prisons, with officials saying that such facilities do not offer significant cost savings and do not maintain the same level of safety and security as prisons run by the federal government.

August 18, 2016
A U.S. soldier adjusts his colleague's helmet during a patrol mission in the town of Youssifiyah, Iraq. (Associated Press)

Prison inmates produced defective combat helmets for U.S. soldiers

Federal prison inmates used makeshift hatchets and a screw shoved through a piece of wood among other rudimentary tools to manufacture thousands of faulty Kevlar combat helmets designed to protect the lives of U.S. soldiers on the battlefield, according to a highly critical watchdog report that offered new details about the government boondoggle.

August 17, 2016
Marijuana grows at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill., on Sept. 15, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Marijuana reclassification request rejected by DEA

The Obama administration has looked the other way as more than a dozen states enacted medical marijuana laws and five jurisdictions legalized the drug for recreational use, but when faced with what was likely its final chance during President Obama's tenure to loosen federal restrictions on the medicinal use of the drug, the administration has chosen to puff, puff, pass.

August 11, 2016
Because John Hinckley Jr. was never convicted of a felony, he has never had his right to vote revoked on those grounds. Mr. Hinckley was sent for mental health treatment after he shot and injured Reagan and three other men in 1981.

John Hinckley likely to register to vote after settling in Virginia

The conditions of John Hinckley Jr.'s full-time release from a psychiatric hospital after a three-decade long commitment are a laundry list of dos and don'ts meant to help him assimilate into society — he can't own a gun, he must work or volunteer three days a week, and he can't have any overnight guests while staying alone at his mother's home in Williamsburg, Virginia.

August 9, 2016
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, center, hugs his daughters Cailin Young, left, and Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky, right, after he was sentenced outside federal court in Richmond, Va., in this January 2015 file photo. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

Federal court puts Maureen McDonnell appeal on hold

A federal appeals court has put on hold former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell's appeal of corruption convictions to give prosecutors and her attorneys more time to analyze the Supreme Court decision that overturned her husband's conviction.

August 5, 2016