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Former Lynchburg Bar Association president Randy Nelson was named this morning to fill the unexpired city council term of Del. Scott Garrett. Nelson is appointed to serve until June 30, when Garrett’s term would have expired, reports The News & Advance.
Meanwhile, Roanoke lawyer Ray Ferris formally announced his candidacy for city council Thursday. One of [...]

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A Lynchburg area gas station cut a deal with the attorney general’s office for charging $5.399 per gallon as Hurricane Ike approached last September.
Timberlake Citgo is setting aside $200 to give partial refunds to the 29 customers who filled up their tanks at the gouged price, reports The News & Advance. Also, the store must [...]

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Lynchburg leaders announced they’ve raised enough money to restore the clock and bell at the city’s old courthouse, which is now a museum.
As the VLW Blog previously noted, the museum that now occupies the old courthouse building was trying to raise $20,000 to bring the 150-year-old piece of history back to life.
In a mere [...]

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The Lynchburg Bar Association and the Virginia Legal Aid Society have named Laura Keohane this year’s Pro Bono Award recipient.
Keohane, a lawyer at the Lynchburg firm of Edmunds & Williams, performed more than 40 hours of pro bono work for low-income residents in Central Virginia last year, reports The News & Advance.
As a personal policy, [...]

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Lynchburg leaders are raising money to restore the clock and bell in the old city courthouse.
WSET reports that the Old Courthouse bell has been silent for almost a decade.
The Museum that now occupies the old courthouse building is trying to raise $20,000 to bring the 150-year-old piece of history back to life. The time it [...]

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Amherst County Circuit Judge Michael Gamble agreed to dismiss felony drug convictions against promising quarterback Peter Rose.
Rose, who was found guilty in a trial earlier this year of two misdemeanor charges and two felony charges of selling drugs to an undercover sheriff’s deputy, left the courtroom with a 30-day sentence and only misdemeanor convictions, reports [...]

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The News & Advance reports this afternoon that the Lynchburg legislative delegation apparently has agreed upon a candidate for a pending circuit judgeship in the 24th Circuit: John Cook.
Cook would succeed Judge Sam Johnston of Campbell County, who is retiring June 1 after 30 years on the bench.
Cook, 50, is a partner with [...]

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski yesterday dismissed a $2 million lawsuit filed by a Lynchburg woman claiming that the company that makes pre-moistened Pledge and Windex wipes stole her idea.
The News & Advance has the follow-up story.

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A Lynchburg woman says that she came up with the idea for pre-moistened cleaning wipes eight years ago and tried to sell the idea to S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., makers of Windex and Pledge.
The lawyer for the company calls her claim “garbage” and “frivolous.”
A U.S. magistrate judge will hold a hearing on [...]

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