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Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray Grubbs has agreed to move another Morva trial.
Michael Morva is accused of helping his brother, William, plan an escape from the Montgomery County jail in an 2006 incident that left both a county deputy and a hospital security guard dead.
William Morva was sentenced to death last year in a trial [...]

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Former Christiansburg lawyer Gerard Marks has agreed to serve 11 months in jail for forging official documents to make clients think he had done legal work for them.
The agreement was worked out just before a scheduled sentencing hearing, according to The Roanoke Times.  An investigation showed Marks had forged the signatures of Circuit Judges Bobby [...]

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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 of Virginia [...]

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A circuit judge has ruled that the capital murder trial of William Morva, charged with killing two law enforcement officials, should be moved from Montgomery County, reports the Roanoke Times. A manhunt for Morva around Blacksburg briefly closed the Virginia Tech campus on the first day of classes of the 2006 school year.
The judge [...]

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