The teams work opposite shifts to allow for a wider time span of coverage and are used in locker searches, crowd control, narcotic detection, suspect tracking and have been utilized by the Muscatine County Drug Task Force, Iowa State Patrol and the department's Street Crimes Unit. Each year brings its challenges, too. In 2014, three people were charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Muscatine residents Timothy Lane, Troy Ott and Michael Newman.
One of the 13 original colonies, Virginia was the first part of the country permanently settled by the English, who established Jamestown on the banks of the James River in 1607. The home state of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers, Virginia played an important role in the American Revolution (1775-83).
Mystery of Va.'s First Slaves Is Unlocked 400 Years Later. By Lisa Rein. JAMESTOWN -- They were known as the 20 and odd, the first African slaves to set foot in North America at the English colony settled in 1607.For nearly 400 years, historians believed they were transported to Virginia from the West Indies on a Dutch warship.ndentured servants from England were common in the settlement, now close to 1,000 people strong. John Rolfe, Virginia's first tobacco planter and husband of the Indian princess Pocahontas, wrote the widely held account of the African landing in a letter to the Virginia Company of London.