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News Stories May 16, 2013

U.S. appeals panel ponders: what is a pirate?

(AP) — In the violent world of piracy, Mohammad Saaili Shibin was a multilingual negotiator based in lawless Somalia, working his cellphone to negotiate multimillion-dollar ransoms for merchant ships and sailors that dared to venture into pirate-infested international waters off Africa. Does that make him guilty of piracy? The question was the central argument May […]

News Stories May 6, 2013

Virginia audit says half of court fines, fees go unpaid

(AP) Nearly half of the fines and fees levied by Virginia courts for traffic tickets and in criminal cases went unpaid over the past five years, according to a state audit. The state Auditor of Public Accounts report found circuit and district courts assessed an average of $357 million in fines and costs from 2008 […]

News Stories May 6, 2013

VSU student president says hazing plea was coerced

(AP) The president of Virginia State University’s student government association is asking a judge to set aside his hazing conviction, arguing that he only pleaded guilty because the prosecutor said he wouldn’t graduate if he refused. Brandon Randleman, 22, and three others pleaded guilty April 8 to an August hazing incident involving a student. All […]

News Stories April 18, 2013

The Falls Church stays with Epsicopal Diocese, court rules

The Episcopal Church is the rightful owner of a historic church formerly occupied by a congregation that abandoned the denomination over the consecration of an openly gay bishop and other differences, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The justices unanimously upheld Fairfax County Circuit Judge Randy Bellows’ ruling against The Falls Church, one of seven […]

News Stories April 15, 2013

Lawsuit demands Trump return Albemarle land

(AP) A former Virginia socialite’s son who sold the sprawling front yard of his family’s 45-room mansion to the Donald Trump real estate empire says he’s been cheated and wants the land back. The John W. Kluge Jr. Trust has filed a lawsuit demanding the return of 217 acres fronting Albemarle House, which Trump bought […]

News Stories April 15, 2013

Judge will determine Renoir painting’s owner

ALEXANDRIA (AP) A federal judge will seek to unravel an art mystery and determine the rightful owner of a napkin-sized painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that a Virginia woman says she bought at a flea market for $7. The ownership is in dispute after documents were uncovered showing a Baltimore museum reported the painting […]

News Stories April 9, 2013

State won’t appeal ruling nixing murder conviction

(AP) The state will not appeal a federal judge’s decision tossing out a 1991 Newport News capital murder conviction. U.S. District Judge James Spencer last month cited withheld evidence in vacating David W. Boyce’s murder and robbery convictions and two life sentences. He gave the state 120 days to retry Boyce or set him free. […]

News Stories April 8, 2013

May trial set on Albemarle County removal petition

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) A May 20 trial is set on a petition seeking the removal of an Albemarle County official who pleaded guilty to sexual battery. Earl Smith of Keene submitted the petition to the circuit clerk’s office last week. Smith contends that Supervisor Christopher Dumler’s conviction on the misdemeanor charge is hampering his ability to […]

News Stories April 8, 2013

Assembly approves most of governor’s amendments

(AP) The Republican-controlled General Assembly accepted amendments Wednesday by Gov. Bob McDonnell that bar insurers in the federally run health insurance exchange that will operate in Virginia from covering abortion. Lawmakers also cut some costs from the transportation funding measure that will likely be his legislative legacy. They also affirmed his amendments tightening the operational [&hell[...]

News Stories April 1, 2013

Petition seeks removal of Albemarle supervisor

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) An Albemarle County resident has submitted a petition to circuit court seeking the removal of a county supervisor who pleaded guilty to sexual battery. Media outlets report that Earl Smith of Keene gave the petition to the circuit clerk’s office on Tuesday. Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Higgins has 10 days to […]

News Stories April 1, 2013

Judge rejects death row inmate’s appeal

(AP) — A federal judge has rejected an appeal by a Virginia death row inmate convicted of killing four people in Norfolk. Anthony Juniper was sentenced to death for the 2004 murders of ex-girlfriend Keisha Stevens, her two children and her brother, Ruben Harrison III. U.S. District Judge John Gibney in Richmond said Friday that […]

News Stories March 27, 2013

Drug sale facts did not support felony murder conviction

(AP) — The Virginia Court of Appeals has reversed the felony murder conviction of a Danville man who sold the drug that led to a fatal overdose. Timothy Woodard sold 10 to 15 ecstasy pills that caused Kayla Beame’s death in November 2010. Virginia law allows a felony murder conviction when a person unintentionally kills another […]

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