Let’s take a look at some of the news stories from around the region that have caught my eye in the past week. In other words, you’ll get your Sunday reading assignments on Sunday for a change!
Here comes the trusty QuickHits! Big Board…
- A 72-year old Appomattox man gets over 13 years in prison for shooting his wife in the head in a convenience store parking lot.
- A Franklin County man is indicted for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his 3-year old son.
- The final price tag for Dominion’s Brunswick County Power Station is over $1 billion. But the county’s getting $5 million in new tax revenue yearly.
- Martinsville’s police department establishes a “Safe Exchange Zone” for online and yard sale transactions.
- The two teenagers who said they were jumped in a Burlington city park and beat up bad? They were lying.
- A Patrick County couple is busted for welfare fraud for the second time.
- Five-time Super Bowl winner Charles Haley returns home to Naruna to be inducted into the town’s Hall of Fame.
- Patrick Henry’s 280th birthday is observed at Red Hill, the Patrick Henry National Memorial located near Brookneal.
- 50 years of working at Dairy Queen!
- Amy, the Caswell Messenger’s office cat, has her first bird encounter!
And we’ll stop at ten for today. There’s your Sunday (and into Monday) reading assignments. We’ve got more coming up here on SouthsideCentral!
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