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A Front Royal family is thankful after getting their bathroom remodeled for free from the community. It may not sound like much, but there’s a reason this means so much to them. Betty Shell says it was hard getting her mentally challenged daughter in and out the bathtub everyday. When workers with the United Way …
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A Frederick County high school student is getting her work performed at Wayside Theatre by professional actors. Sherando High School student Libby Powell won a playwrights’ competition with her play ‘Death at a Bus Stop’. The judges all agreed that her play stood out from the other seven entries. “For someone as young as she …
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A special operation conducted by the Northwest VA Regional Drug and Gang Task Force cracked down on illegal narcotics in the area. The eight hour operation happened Thursday night. It’s called “Operation Valley Venue.” More than a handful of people got arrested in Winchester and Frederick County. Here is a list of them: Jeremy Simpson …
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The 12th ranked Generals beat the Hornets, 14-3. Washington & Lee led 8-0 at halftime and scored the first ten goals of the game. The Hornets are winless in the ODAC and have one more game left this season, Saturday at home against Lynchburg.
Virginia has rejected bids by two companies to operate a state facility that detains violent sex offenders for treatment after their sentences are completed. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that state officials who evaluated the proposals thought Florida-based GEO Group focused too much on incarceration and not enough on treatment. Pennsylvania-based Liberty Healthcare …
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Nearly 112,000 customers are without power and schools are closed in parts of Virginia as a late-winter storm moves across the state. The outages include about 65,700 Dominion Virginia Power customers, more than 43,000 customers of electric cooperatives and about 3,240 Appalachian Power customers. Most of the outages are in the …
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State police say a 22-year-old Russell County man was killed early Thursday after his vehicle ran off Route 632 in southwest Virginia, went over an embankment and landed upside down in a creek. Trooper S.A. Sutherland said road conditions were icy. The victim was identified as James D. Hess of the community of Swords Creek. …
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Gov. Bob McDonnell says a trooper involved in a shooting along Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County has died. McDonnell says 40-year state police veteran Master Trooper Junius Walker was shot while on duty on Thursday. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says Walker was shot multiple times around 1:30 p.m. He called for backup, and …
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New details emerged Friday in a press conference at the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office regarding missing 16 year old Augusta County girl Jennifer Carolina Romero. Sheriff Fisher said that while she still may possibly be a runaway, all signs point to her being abducted as part of a sex trafficking ring. Mynor Franco-Depaz has been …
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2013 Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence Two schools – Rocky Run Middle in Fairfax County and Kemps Landing Magnet in Virginia Beach – earned the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence, the highest VIP award. Both schools will receive a display banner and a signed resolution of commendation from Governor McDonnell. No school divisions qualified for …
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