16th annual Dawbarn awards announced

nTelos trims local crew, offers early retirement

School bus driver hit after breaking for a late riser

STAUNTON — Facing possible sanctions for suing Augusta County officials over the 2009 property reassessment, Churchville attorney Francis Chester on Tuesday defended his lawsuit and alleged the county government wants to “silence the people’s attorney.”

STAUNTON — A former corrections officer pleaded guilty Monday to feeding a stream of marijuana to a drug-trafficking ring inside the Augusta County Correctional Center in Craigsville.

RICHMOND — Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, and supporters Monday defended his vote in favor of the $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul, while an anti-tax group picketed his offices in Martinsville, Danville and Farmville.

State authorities found black powder, grenades, guns and mortar rounds in an Afton man’s home after a scare on Delphine Avenue in Waynesboro, according to court records.

Authorities armed with search warrants rifled through two properties belonging to Mark S. Bales, 51, after the Waynesboro Police Department connected a suspicious drug package with a metal pipe sticking out of the side to him, according to a search warrant in Augusta County Circuit Court. Police closed the street Nov. 2 after finding the package.

STAUNTON – Buffie Sue Wells pleaded guilty in Augusta County Circuit Court Monday, to drug charges and charges she eluded police.

Authorities charged Wells, 39, of Stuarts Draft, in late September after she and her then-wanted husband, Andrew Ivan Wells, 32, fled from an Augusta County Sheriff’s Office deputy. The deputy saw Andrew Wells sitting in the front seat of a Chevrolet Camero and stopped to question him, said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Thomas Knoll Jr. Monday.

Leaders: SRI a long-term benefit to Valley

Waynesboro City Council without discussion Monday night voted unanimously to allow an exotic car dealership to occupy a recently vacated downtown building.

In October, Weldon and Phyllis Scrogham of G&W Motorwerkes on Greenville Avenue in Staunton applied to the city for a permit to relocate their auto sales, service and restoration operation to the recently vacated Grand Home Furnishings building at 518 W. Main St.

A Waynesboro grand jury indicted two men Monday, for charges they used a handgun during a robbery in September.

Authorities charged Jeremy Lamont Brown, 24, of Lyndhurst, and Daryl Shondell Washington, 35, of Waynesboro, on charges they robbed two other men in the 7-Eleven parking lot, police said.

WAYNESBORO — City departments will seek to reduce expenses by 5 percent this year and next in an effort to offset decreased state and local revenues.

First-quarter sales, meals and lodging tax revenues have not met budgeted projections, City Manager Mike Hamp and Finance Director Pat Nicosia told the Waynesboro City Council finance committee Monday night.

Culling through records of hundreds of sharpshooting Civil War soldiers, Brocky Nicely more than once had to turn to experts of another nature to build their biographies.

Churchville firefighters mark 50th year

U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello’s vote in favor of the sweeping health care reform package that narrowly passed the House of Representatives late Saturday is drawing cheers from his supporters and outrage from opponents.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included several people who shared the same profession as the alleged shooter, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shooting. Here is a look at the victims.

House legislation has nowhere to go in Senate

Fraud artist went on lam as wife, son faced charges, trial

Officials collect twice as many unwanted meds as expected during event at Augusta Health

Learning program reaches decade mark

In narrow triumph, Dems push through landmark legislation

A new Harrisonburg-based shuttle service promises to connect the city to Charlottesville and Washington D.C. for a fraction of taxi fare.

Green Shuttle, a new service through the 1-year-old Green Taxi company, will run three days a week to each city and Dulles International Airport.

Heralded for leading wrestlers to 13 state championship matches, a former Fort Defiance High School wrestling coach has filed a lawsuit against Augusta County Public Schools claiming officials fired him for racial reasons.

Where no local burger has gone before, the “Chubby Melt” went this week: straight to the tip of David Letterman’s tongue.

Deputies have arrested a Waynesboro man on charges he clubbed an Eastside Speedway security guard with a metal pipe.

R.E. Lee needs additional space for its football trophies

One of two Staunton men accused of killing a former roommate pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder.

Deputies arrested a Waynesboro man Thursday night, pinning charges on him for the attack of an Eastside Speedway security guard.

Expired medications and illegal drugs will be accepted anonymously and without question for safe disposal Saturday at Augusta Health in Fishersville.

“Our goal is more than 50,000 doses,” said Doug Holroyd, director of pharmacy services at the hospital. “To destroy meds in regular trash, it can either get into the water supply or into the hands of somebody you don’t want them to ... dogs ... kids.”

VERONA – The Augusta County School Board Thursday reversed a decision by Superintendent Gary McQuain and voted 5-2 to grant newly elected House 20 Del. Dickie Bell’s request for an unpaid leave of absence from his special education teaching duties so he can serve in Richmond.