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When the representative of a sign company told a Chesterfield County committee responsible for regulating signs that there were no complaints about electronic message boards and other displays, Bob Olsen thought, “You want complaints, I’ll give you complaints.” The Chesterfield Observer reports on his efforts. By Alan Cooper

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The Roanoke Times reports Blacksburg attorney Harriet D. Dorsey has been appointed by circuit court judges to fill a vacancy on the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court bench in the 27th District. The paper reports Dorsey is one of several substitute judges who have heard cases, primarily in Wythe County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, [...]

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Two Virginia fish merchants have been sentenced for their roles in a plot where they passed off 10 million pounds of foreign catfish as flounder and other types of fish. The Associated Press reports that Peter Xuong Lam, president of Virginia Star Seafood Corp., was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay [...]

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Goochland County leaders yesterday accepted the resignation of county attorney Andrew McRoberts and chose Barbara Rose as an interim replacement. McRoberts declined to comment on the specific circumstances of his departure except to say that it was a mutual decision, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Rose was deputy county attorney in Hanover County for 15 years, [...]

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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Huennekens agreed to dismiss the case involving The Greenbrier resort, leaving it to new owner Jim Justice to steer the hotel out of debt. According to the Charleston Gazette, Justice vowed to pay the resort’s creditors in full immediately from a $17 million escrow fund. Now, Justice can focus on restoring [...]

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A man who won reversal of a rape conviction due to police misconduct has won the right to try his civil rights case against the officers. Acting without a lawyer, Engram Bellamy of Waynesboro sued the officers who secretly recorded his incriminating comments while he was hospitalized for an asthma attack.  At the time, Bellamy [...]

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The other shoe has dropped for Franklin lawyer J. Edward Moyler Jr., who was indicted yesterday on nine counts of embezzlement. As Virginia Lawyers Weekly reported last month, Moyler admitted taking millions from a decedent’s account. He also took over $100,000 from three other estates. Moyler is due in Suffolk Circuit Court on May 26 [...]

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The death of a Virginia teenager highlights inconsistent rules on releasing information about child abuse investigations, according to The Washington Post. Despite a report a neighbor made to the Prince William County’s Department of Social Services that 13-year-old Lexie Agyepong-Glover appeared to have been abused, officials failed to rescue her before she was slain a [...]

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In the ongoing talk about torture, recent revelations suggest that private contractors may have stepped in to employ harsh tactics, or at least to suggest their use. Military contractors did not have business insurance coverage for claims by Iraqi nationals that they were abused and tortured by employees of the contractor, CACI International, the 4th U.S. [...]

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The lawsuit to block a proposed rail transfer facility in Montgomery County could be heard by September. The Roanoke Times reports that the county is trying to block the project, arguing that Virginia’s constitution forbids state funding of private railroad facilities. The intermodal rail yard in Elliston would cover 65 acres and link the Port [...]

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