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).
1 After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry trees (silkworm food), sericulturist planted tobacco as a cash crop. 2  Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia. 3  Virginia is known as the birthplace of a nation. About 1/2 of all the people in the United States live within a 500 mile radius of the Capital of Virginia. 2  Virginia has had 3 capital cities: Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond. 3  Richmond was also the capital of the Confederate States during the Civil War.