It’s been a few weeks since our last QuickHits look at some of the stories that have caught our eye. Let’s fix that now.
QuickHits! are best served on a Big Board, so here it comes!
- Two life terms for the guy who sexually abused and tattooed two young girls that he was babysitting.
- Rooster Walk 8 is coming up next weekend in Henry County, and it will be the largest one yet.
- A High Point Belk’s loss prevention employee gets injured after going too far to stop a shoplifter.
- The former Henry County deputy who drunkenly stumbled into his neighbor’s house, shot him then passed out in the neighbor’s recliner gets no active jail time at sentencing. But there’s a good reason for that.
- The former hotel that got turned into a (now-condemned) retirement community in Greensboro is almost ready to be demolished.
- A retired Franklin County deputy is now on the Board of Supervisors and he’s leading the charge to cut the Sheriff’s Department budget.
- One year after a 3-year-old boy was killed, attorneys are still fighting about mental health records.
- The Gatlin Brothers will headline the July 4th “Celebration 2016” at Martinsville Speedway (Worth the drive).
- A Pittsylvania County man forfeits $1,500,000 in a steroid distribution case.
- A well-respected and loved Halifax County deputy died suddenly this weekend.
- Carjacked at the K&W!
Oh wow. Let’s stop at eleven reading assignments for you. I did say it had been a while since our last QuickHits, though. Heh.
I see the Register & Bee editorial board pretty much copied your story on the Duke Energy settlement today. You should be a little nervous when they agree with you.
I noticed that. The old “Broken clock is still correct twice a day” applied there, I’m sure.