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The Virginia Beach Bar Association’s Judicial Recommendations Panel met earlier this week to interview and evaluate candidates for two judgeships, one a circuit court seat, previously held by Judge A. Joseph Canada Jr., and the other a general district court position, previously held by Judge Virginia L. Cochran.
The results are in.
Three candidates were “highly recommended” [...]

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The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to review the finding by the Supreme Court of Virginia that Virginia Beach’s noise ordinance was unconstitutional on its face.
Many localities in the state, including Virginia Beach, have reworked their noise ordinances since the Virginia court’s ruling in April. But Virginia Beach also filed a petition for a writ [...]

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The Virginia Beach Circuit Court clerk’s office will close at 1 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays under new hours to start Oct. 13, Clerk Tina E. Sinnen reports.
The new hours will be Monday through Wednesday 8:30am to 4pm and Thursdays and Fridays 8:30am to 1pm.
"We are still working out all the kinks with this as [...]

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Virginia Beach public defender Annette Miller helps those with mental health issues.
Miller has worked in the public defender’s office since 1995. In the past five years, she tells The Virginian-Pilot, she has likely handled more than 200 criminal cases involving seriously mentally ill defendants.
The city of Virginia Beach recognized her in 2000 with a Human [...]

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Buddhist monks in Virginia Beach have settled their lawsuit against the city over religious services at a home in a residential neighborhood.
Under the settlement filed in federal court Monday, the City Council will consider giving the monks a permit to hold Sunday services at their home, for no more than 20 people at [...]

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Norfolk Circuit Judge Chuck Griffith lost his job this spring when the General Assembly declined to give him a second eight-year term on the bench.
But he didn’t stay out of work long. In fact, the day after his term expired, Griffith reported to the office of Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney Harvey Bryant. Griffith took a [...]

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A woman and her daughter, visiting Virginia Beach from the Midwest, claim they were attacked by bedbugs at the Rodeway Inn, a hotel on Atlantic Avenue.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that the pair have filed a lawsuit, seeking more than $400,000 for bites and other injuries and for damage to their property.

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Virginia Beach spent $200,000 in 2002 to put together a facial recognition security system at the Oceanfront, but the system has essentially been scrapped, reports The Virginian-Pilot. It was designed to match facial images to a computer database, but it suffered from technical problems and has not been used in two years.
The Beach chief [...]

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It seemed like a good idea at the time.
After all, Ernestine Combs really needed a liquor license for her lounge, Uroma.
And Virginia Beach really wanted to keep Virginia Beach’s notorious “Block,” the area near 17th Street and Pacific Avenue, as orderly as possible.
So the city agreed not to object to the liquor license so long [...]

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Jon D. Huddleston, a Leesburg lawyer who has long been active in the Virginia State Bar, has announced his candidacy for president-elect of the organization.
Huddleston has been on Bar Council since 2001 and became a member of its executive committee last year. He has been a member of the VSB’s budget and finance committee since [...]

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