Outages Near 112,000 in Va As Storm Reaches State

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 …

Local Missing Girl May Have Been Abducted As Part Of Sex Trafficking Ring

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 …

2 Found Dead in Burning House in Chesterfield

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Chesterfield County authorities are investigating the deaths of two people who were found in a burning house. Lt. Jason Elmore of the fire department says foul play is suspected. Several fires may have been intentionally set inside the structure. The bodies were found on different floors of the two-story structure. According …

Va Police Halt Search for Woman, Await ID of Body

HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police are awaiting the identification of a body found in the same area where a missing professor’s car was discovered. The Daily News-Record (http://bit.ly/15eBYRv ) reports that state police halted the search for Harriet Cobb after the body was found Friday in the Mountain Grove area of Bath County. …