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A new lawsuit accuses Dominion Virginia Power of using a proposed golf course as a ruse to create a large dump site for coal ash.
The suit was brought by 62 homeowners and family members in the neighborhoods surrounding the Battlefield Golf Club, reports The Virginian-Pilot.
This comes on the heels of another class action suit [...]

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A Chesapeake judge is considering a mistrial motion in a murder case after a juror failed to disclose her history as a crime victim.
James Boughton Jr. was previously found guilty for shooting a Mormon missionary to death. This past Friday, defense attorney Andrew Sacks told Chesapeake Circuit Judge Randy Smith that a woman known as [...]

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The city of Chesapeake will pay $275,000 to resolve a family’s claim for a man killed by an animal control truck.
According to witnesses, the animal control vehicle sped through an intersection as the light turned yellow, killing 65-year-old Norfolk resident, Elwood Couther.
Couther family filed a wrongful death suit after the October 2005 incident, reports The [...]

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There are 18, count ‘em, 18 candidates seeking two soon-to-be-available circuit judgeships in Chesapeake.
One seat is open now, following the appointment of Judge S. Bernard Goodwyn to the Supreme Court of Virginia last month. Judge Frederick Creekmore will be retiring.
State lawmakers representing Chesapeake recently interviewed all 18 candidates, reports The Virginian-Pilot. The list includes [...]

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Property owners who lived near Chesapeake Airport have won the right to damages for noise and vibration that they say has ruined the once quiet, rural setting of their West Landing Estates neighborhood.
In operation since 1977, the airport completed its last runway extension in 1999. George and Margaret Osipovs bought their home in March 2001 [...]

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Gov. Tim Kaine will appoint Chesapeake Circuit Judge S. Bernard Goodwyn to the Supreme Court of Virginia, according to the Associated Press.
The governor will hold a news conference this morning to introduce his choice.
Goodwyn, 46, will succeed Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy, who retired in August. Goodwyn will be the second African-American justice on [...]

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