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(CBS/AP) - Jamie Kuhne strangled his wife, stuffed her dead body into a suitcase, took his 1-year-old son to day care and then walked in to the Herndon, Va. police department and confessed to the crime, according to police.

Herndon Police Lt. Jeff Coulter said that at around 7 a.m. on Friday morning, Kuhne, 34, walked calmly into police headquarters and handed a note to one of the dispatchers at the front desk. Coulter would not disclose the full contents of the note, but revealed that it said Kuhne had killed his 36-year-old wife and her body was in their Herndon apartment, about 30 miles west of Washington D.C.

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WOODBRIDGE, Va. - The Tuesday shooting at Northern Virginia Community College could have been a lot worse, if it wasn't for Jason Michael Hamilton's crappy rifle, according to police accounts.

Hamilton, 20, fired two shots at mathematics professor Tatyana Kravchuk, but was unable to continue after his gun jammed, Prince William County police Maj. Ray Colgan said. The professor was able to duck behind a desk and was not hit. No one was injured.

"Probably what prevented a further tragedy was that the gun jammed," Colgan said.

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WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Northern Virginia Community College was on lockdown yesterday as SWAT teams swarmed the campus, after a student, Jason Michael Hamilton, opened fire in a classroom with a high-powered rifle, according to police.

Hamilton did not hit anyone and no injuries were reported following the afternoon shooting at the school's Woodbridge campus, about 25 miles south of Washington, D.C.

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DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VA - Virginia State Police (VSP) have held a news briefing to provide details on this morning's crash involving a tour bus for singer Miley Cyrus.

The accident happened on I-85 south near mile marker 56 in Dinwiddie County, about 45-minutes south of Richmond, Va. Police said 10 people were on board the bus when it went off the road and overturned. The singer was not on board and is not at the scene of the accident.

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NEW YORK - Charlene Lugar, wife of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after hitting a parked car in northern Virginia.

Fairfax County Police say an officer stopped 76-year-old Charlene Lugar Wednesday evening at a McLean intersection after seeing damage to her car and smoke coming from the hood. Police later determined that she also hit an unattended parked car about two miles away from the traffic stop.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A weekend-long search, aided by an army of volunteers and more reward money, is beginning Friday in a renewed effort to find 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington.

Harrington's parents, saying "we just want our daughter back," have added $100,000 of their own money to the Crime Stoppers reward for information leading to Morgan, and the band Metallica has also donated $50,000 to the reward fund.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - As Morgan Harrington's family releases new photographs of the missing Virginia Tech student, police are hoping a timeline of when and where the 20-year-old was last seen will help jog the memory of anyone who can provide clues to her whereabouts.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The parents of Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington, who disappeared outside a Metallica concert, said Tuesday they fear she is the victim of foul play.

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ROANOKE, Va. - The search for 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington, the Virginia Tech student missing since she became separated from her friends at a Metallica concert Saturday, is being treated as a criminal investigation, police said Wednesday.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. It's been four days and still no sign of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington.

A desperate search is still underway for Harrington, who was last seen near the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va., at a Metallica concert on Oct. 17.

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