![Seventeen Virginia State Police officers responded with local law enforcement to four different scenes on Nov. 1, 2023.](https://ringtumphi.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/StatePolice1-1-1200x780.jpg)
New details emerge about police searches during W&L lockdown
Virginia State Police spread across Lexington after Washington and Lee University received an email threat and a UPS driver reported possible shots fired near downtown
![Ricardo Vergara will spend six years in prison and five on probation.](https://ringtumphi.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HELLVERGARA-1200x900.jpg)
Grand jury indicts former Washington and Lee first-year on rape charges
Lexington police arrested Ricardo Vergara in February for allegedly sexually assaulting a fellow student a month earlier
![The Lexington Police Department is on Fuller Street. Photo by Jess Kishbaugh, 24.](https://ringtumphi.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/city-hall-sign-could-also-be-used-for-local-police-piece-2-900x600.jpg)
The average crime in Lexington
A strictly academic comparative study on big city vs. small town police
Lexington City Council increases officers’ salaries
Members of the Lexington Police Department will see a boost in their next paycheck
Police and sheriff’s officers meet with W&L students
Officers spoke with students about relations between students, local residents and law enforcement
Police Chief raises concern about VMI, W&L relations
Al Thomas speaks to W&L students about staying safe when interacting with cadets on the weekends