A newspaper article about an assault case falsely stated that a high school athlete routinely bullied another student at Great Bridge High School. The article reported accurately that the plaintiff had been convicted of assaulting the father of the student ...

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Patrick Bristol, a student at Chesapeake’s Great Bridge High School, told a reporter for The Virginian-Pilot that fellow student Kevin Webb routinely shoved and taunted him at school. The Pilot reported that allegation as fact, an assertion that Webb denied ...

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Chesapeake residents who live near Battlefield Golf Course who claim defendant golf club owner and defendant power companies developed a plan to dispose of coal ash byproduct, mix it with a binding agent and use it in the golf course ...

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