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Floyd Allen (July 5, 1856 – March 28, 1913) was an American landowner and patriarch of the Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia.He was convicted and executed for murder in 1913 after a sensational courthouse shootout the previous year that left a judge, prosecutor, sheriff, and three others dead, although the validity of the conviction has been a source of debate within Carroll County for ...
The man shot and killed by an FBI agent on Monday in Carroll County has been identified as 25-year-old Jacob Bible.. Authorities still haven't released his name, and have disclosed little ...
The Carroll County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia. It was built between 1870 and 1875, and is a two-story brick building with a gable roof. It features a two-story, pedimented portico in the Doric order. The building is topped by an octagonal cupola.
Carroll County, like neighboring Floyd, is a historical anomaly in being a solidly Republican county in “Solid South” Virginia, due to desertions from the Confederate army during the Civil War. It was the only county in Virginia to vote for William Howard Taft during the 1912 election, and the only Democrat to carry the county in a ...
Carroll County Sheriff Calvin Graham confirmed shortly after 7 p.m. in a briefing to reporters at the scene that the man involved in the standoff, whom he declined to identify, was found dead at ...
Massillon man, 20, charged with felonious assault, accused of shooting an arrow into chest of 17-year-old Saturday in Carroll County.
The Sidna Allen House is a historic house located near the town of Fancy Gap, in Carroll County, Virginia.The house was built in 1911 for Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Allen; however, he was arrested soon thereafter for complicity in the courthouse shooting of which his brother was accused, and never again lived there.
Eyewitness footage shows the immediate aftermath of a shooting incident in Richmond, Virginia, where a man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a ...