QuickHits! (10/4/15)

I took a rare day off yesterday, so let’s catch up with the stories that have caught my eye over the past week. That’s right… Sundays are QuickHits! days.

Here comes the Big Board!

• Carilion pays $1,900,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit about the former Rocky Mount police chief.
• Remember the Colonial Downs off-track betting location in Martinsville? It’s now a church.
• A 14 year old boy shoots his grandfather in Appomattox County.
• The Franklin County school system is being investigated for student abuse in their special education system.
• You’re probably going to get busted if you break into the same drug store three times in five days.
• If you thought the controversy over “sweepstakes” businesses was over, think again…
• …But the same type of business is OK with Emporia’s Commonwealth’s Attorney. Go figure.
• A resale shop owner pleads guilty to grand larceny & breaking and entering charges for going in people’s houses and stealing clothes & household items.
• Two gunmen steal over $32,000 in cellphones when they rob a Verizon store.
• Caswell County’s Maud Gatewood is honored with the “Maud Gatewood Trail” celebrating her artwork.
• Yes, somebody in the region has an Olive Garden All-You-Can-Eat Family Pasta Pass.

Oh my. That’s eleven QuickHits! for your Sunday reading. That’s what I get for taking a day off!