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          <title>Arrest made in Speedway clubbing</title>
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Deputies have arrested a Waynesboro man on charges he clubbed an Eastside Speedway security guard with a metal pipe.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:06 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Former roommate pleads to murder</title>
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One of two Staunton men accused of killing a former roommate pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Alleged thief arrested Wednesday</title>
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A Staunton teen stole a car to use credit cards he&#8217;d stolen from the owner, then found her waiting when he tried to return the vehicle, authorities said.

Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrested Bryan Layne, 19, Wednesday. Authorities said they suspect more people are connected to the crime.           ]]></description>
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          <title>12 killed in Hood spree</title>
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Virginia-born psychiatrist opens fire on army base           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:15 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Former prison guard charged anew for ring</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Authorities have charged a former county prison guard with bribery as part of a ring they say delivered drugs to inmates.

For months April M. Hogsett, 26, of Doe Hill, used her position at the Augusta County Correctional Center to work as a liaison between prisoners and an outside drug source, according to court records.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:53 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Staunton pair guilty of infant abuse</title>
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Only weeks after their relationship skidded into trouble, a Staunton pair pleaded guilty Wednesday to injuring their infant child.

Richard Lee Steppe, 30, and Patience Dannielle Armentrout, 19, appeared before a Waynesboro Circuit Court judge to admit to felony child abuse of their 2-month-old baby.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Fugitive awaits sentencing for alleged molestation</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Nobody caught Jose Orlando Romero-Feliciano easily.

Tracking him meant a chase to the south of the country, down into the twin cities of Louisiana, next to the bank of the Ouachita River.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:57 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>20&#45;year&#45;old molestation investigated</title>
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After two decades of silence, a 37-year-old woman decided to tell her story.

That led deputies to arrest James Preston McLaughlin, 57, of Waynesboro, for sexual crimes they said he committed.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police briefs_11/3</title>
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Authorities charged Christopher Stagner, 35, of West Augusta, with maiming as a result of driving under the influence, Friday after a July vehicle accident on Braley Pond Road.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:43 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Assault case wraps with admission</title>
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A 73-year-old Staunton man pleaded guilty Monday in Augusta County Circuit Court to sexually assaulting a mentally retarded blind woman.

John Oehlerking faced an Augusta County Circuit Court judge Monday, and pleaded to a reduced charge of sexual battery, court officials said. 

He was sentenced to a year in prison.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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Egleston pleads guilty to reduced charge           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Trouble brews again at Eastside</title>
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Assault second recent scrape at speedway            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Accused shooter waives hearing</title>
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HARRISONBURG &#8211; John Franklin Myers spent his 45th birthday in jail Wednesday, just a day before a Rockingham County judge certified to grand jury a murder charge against him.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:53 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police briefs_10/31</title>
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Authorities on Thursday charged Kim Bernard Gilham, 53, of Staunton, for taking indecent liberties with a child. Officials with the Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office did not respond to calls seeking more information about the case.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Accounts of fatal fight are disputed</title>
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The longtime girlfriend of a man jailed Thursday over a fatal fight said the victim&#8217;s account of the brawl &#8212; written two days before a hemorrhage killed him &#8212; doesn&#8217;t tell the full story.

Authorities charged Russell &#8220;Rusty&#8221; Huntley, 24, of Verona, with manslaughter in the death of Chad Fields, 26. Authorities said Fields died from injuries Huntley inflicted in an altercation earlier this month in a Dollar General parking lot.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Woman concedes to abuse</title>
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A Waynesboro woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to abduction and child abuse more than a year after she held a teenage girl against her will and refused to feed her, causing the child&#8217;s weight to plunge to 61 pounds.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Waynesboro man sentenced to 1 year for fondling toddler</title>
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A Waynesboro man filed an Alford plea Wednesday to aggravated sexual battery charges.

Augusta County Judge Victor V. Ludwig sentenced David Dwight Cosner, 40, to a year behind bars. Under the Alford plea, Cosner acknowledged that the evidence against him was strong enough to convict him of assaulting a toddler but he stopped short of admitting guilt.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Former county director charged</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Augusta County&#8217;s former information technology director has been indicted on charges he misused government equipment.

Authorities recovered computers and electronics worth &#8220;several thousand dollars&#8221; from the home of Rick L. Vernier after receiving a tip that he had county property in his Stuarts Draft home, said Lt. A.C. Powers of the Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Grand jury certifies murder charge</title>
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An Augusta County grand jury Monday indicted Timothy Aaron Wilkins, 39, of Churchville, in the murder of his girlfriend.

Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies testified they found Misty M. Phillips, 36, of Staunton, strangled and stuffed in the back of Wilkins&#8217; Toyota 4 Runner in the Food Lion parking lot in Verona.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:17 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Woman snatches prowler from seat</title>
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The yellow moped gave him away.

Interrupted by a Staunton homeowner during a burglary attempt Monday morning, Matthew S. Carr, 28, raced from the front door to the moped as the victim futilely gave chase, authorities said. When the victim&#8217;s wife spotted the moped on a nearby street, she yanked Carr to the ground, authorities said. Still, he managed to get away.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police briefs_10&#45;27</title>
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Joan Byrne, a resident on Misty Hill Lane, reported catching a red fox Monday morning after she set up traps for groundhogs, luring them with cat food.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:52 EST</pubDate>
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Authorities arrested Christopher L. Simmons, 29, of Staunton, Thursday for one count of grand larceny and one count of petty larceny. Simmons didn&#8217;t go easy though, police said.

Simmons locked himself inside his vehicle and threatened to kill himself with a crossbow. The Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s office brought a negotiator and a tactical team to the scene.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:54 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Man pleads guilty to hiring hitman</title>
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STAUNTON &#8211; In the Stuarts Draft man&#8217;s head, if he could remove his ex-wife and her fianc&#233;e from the equation, he would get his children back. So he hired a hitman.

That&#8217;s how Assistant Attorney General Phil Figura explained the actions of Thomas Joseph Laguardia Sr. during a plea hearing Monday in Augusta County Circuit Court.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:01:52 EST</pubDate>
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Darius Swales, of Waynesboro, pleaded guilty Monday to simple assault and battery.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:01:24 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Molestation charges advance to grand jury</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; A Staunton Circuit Court grand jury indicted Steven Bruce Joplin, 59, of Middlebrook, after authorities charged him with seven counts of aggravated sexual battery of a minor under age 13.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Plea expected in murder&#45;for&#45;hire case</title>
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Man charged with attempting to have ex-wife, her boyfriend killed           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:01:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Men charged for DeJarnette trespass</title>
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Six 20-year-old men, armed with flashlights and driver&#8217;s licenses from faraway states and poking around the old DeJarnette Center, caught the attention of police Thursday night.

A Staunton officer on patrol noticed the men, and the darting beams of their flashlights, when he pulled forward to investigate at the defunct center off Route 250, said Staunton police Capt. Leslie Miller.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:01:37 EST</pubDate>
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An Augusta County judge Thursday certified to grand jury charges against a Shenandoah man accused of stabbing another at Eastside Speedway.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Judge certifies narcotics dropoffs</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; The situation seemed suspect: a discarded Doritos bag filled with pills and cigarettes. 

Cameras at Middle River Regional Jail in Verona stared at the bag for hours. That&#8217;s when things unraveled for a Stuarts Draft pair, authorities said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:01:18 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Judge certifies man&#8217;s rape charges</title>
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Rape suspect Albert A. Sledd, shook his head through most of a hearing Wednesday, but it drew no sympathy from an Augusta County judge, only a reprimand.

A woman testified that he beat her early Sept. 17 demanding that she have sex with him. She acquiesced, showered and went to work battered and bruised, she said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police: Elderly targeted in Waynesboro ruses</title>
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City police suspect a &#8220;very thin&#8221; woman has conned her way into three Waynesboro homes this month to steal medication, money and jewelry from elderly and disabled people..

Between Oct. 1 and Oct. 3, three similar thefts raised police suspicions, said Sgt. Kelly Walker. The crimes echo a broader trend of thieves and scammers targeting the elderly, authorities said.           ]]></description>
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Waynesboro police have arrested one of two men suspected of terrorizing and robbing a woman while wearing horror-movie masks.

The accomplice is next, authorities said.           ]]></description>
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Mom testifies during repeat offender&#8217;s trial           ]]></description>
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&#8216;Scream&#8217; mask conceals identity of 2 male crooks           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:01:16 EST</pubDate>
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Federal authorities have arrested a Waynesboro man, just one peg in an alleged meth ring that reached deep into the Shenandoah Valley and as far south as Mexico.

Deputies with the Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrested Richard Allen Layman Jr., 30, just as five other Valley residents ran into similar law enforcement nets.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:01:32 EST</pubDate>
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Staunton police are seeking information on burglaries at two Churchville Avenue businesses.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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Staunton police arrested Richard Lee Steppe, 30, of Staunton, Tuesday on a charge he abducted a 19-year-old woman against her will, said Staunton police Officer Lisa Klein.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:01:25 EST</pubDate>
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Staunton police are seeking information about the theft of 17 golf course flags and poles from Gypsy Hill Golf Course in Gypsy Hill Park.
Police said the equipment, valued at more than $1,300, went missing in late July.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro grand jury Monday indicted a Waynesboro man on drug charges stemming from a raid in which police say they found 107 Mason jars of psychedelic mushrooms.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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Baker charged again in killing of woman in &#8217;98           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:01:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bullet strikes woman</title>
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Companion faces attempted murder            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:01:34 EST</pubDate>
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Three Waynesboro men accused of forcing a fourth to strip naked in the street before they robbed him of cash were arrested Thursday following police searches inside the troubled 260 N. Commerce Ave. apartment complex.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:34:04 EST</pubDate>
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A man suspected of growing a dozen marijuana plants and enough pot leaves to fill a garbage bag is on the lam after a raid at his home, authorities said Thursday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:28:56 EST</pubDate>
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STAUNTON &#8212; An Augusta County judge Thursday extended a Broadway car thief&#8217;s prison sentence by six years, the last chapter in a spree that stretched across four counties.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:01:24 EST</pubDate>
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GROTTOES &#8212; As Virginia Lynn Ware lay in her gravel driveway, her boyfriend stood over her, lowered a gun and fired, neighbors said Tuesday.

They heard the couple&#8217;s shouting match in Blackrock Trailer Court but didn&#8217;t look until the shots.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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A judge Wednesday sentenced two Waynesboro men to prison for breaking in to three churches and stealing cash and electronics.

Stephen P. Bakaitis, 23, and, Joshua T. Bakaitis, 21, each pleaded guilty to 16 felonies and two misdemeanors.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:01:38 EST</pubDate>
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Surprised by Wendy Sprouse&#8217;s embezzlement sentence of more than 22 years, a Shenandoah County judge on Wednesday added just two more years to her time for violating probation on prior convictions.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:01:09 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro man pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor DWI for crashing his car into a shallow pond 150 feet off Route 250 on July 1.

Shaun Snead, 23, was fined $250, will drive on a restricted license for 12 months, is required to attend substance abuse meetings and received a 30-day suspended jail sentence.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:01:52 EST</pubDate>
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Police on Monday took a report of vandalism to a vacant building at 654 N. Bath Ave., at the former site of a church.

Paint buckets stored inside were dumped over and damage was done to a heating unit and ceiling tiles in an attached trailer, police said.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:01:03 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro man nearly clipped a stop sign with his car, swerved his vehicle across neighborhood streets and fled from officers before being Tasered early Sunday, police said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:01:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Deputies find boy, 11, high on pot, aerosol</title>
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2 charged with neglect           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:01:30 EST</pubDate>
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Police on Friday arrested a Waynesboro man who they say became combative while being led from his home.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:01:05 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Guilty plea scheduled in meth case</title>
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A Verona couple are scheduled to plead guilty today to federal drug trafficking and firearm charges stemming from $1 million in guns, cash, vehicles and methamphetamine found at their home in February.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:01:20 EST</pubDate>
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n Police are investigating an alleged assault on Sears Hill Lane. A man reported two cuts to his leg, police said. He was treated at Augusta Health. Police said robbery was not a motive and that the victim could not say how many assailants might have been involved.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:01:41 EST</pubDate>
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An apologetic Waynesboro man pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing SunTrust bank March 9 in a heist built around a bomb threat.

Adhering to a plea agreement, Judge Humes J. Franklin sentenced Stuart H. Veney III, 29, to five years in prison with 15 additional years suspended.

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          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:01:18 EST</pubDate>
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Authorities charged a Stuarts Draft man Wednesday for an alleged assault of the mother of his child.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:01:05 EST</pubDate>
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A former Waynesboro tractor-trailer driver whose rig hit and killed a 16-year-old Albemarle County girl will serve two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:20:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Michael Comer released on bond</title>
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Michael Comer, 45, the man accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Glenmore Community Association, has been released on $50,000 bond.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:18:31 EST</pubDate>
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A vehicle stolen from a Sheetz gas station in Staunton Friday evening was recovered less than two hours later in Waynesboro and an arrest made.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:33 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro gang member will spend two years in prison after pleading guilty to a beating at a city gas station.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:21:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Sentence tests &#8216;soul mates&#8217;</title>
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Shadows clung to Wendy Sprouse as she strode into a meeting that July day but she claims never to have sensed the demons stirring.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:39:16 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro woman charged for the murder of her boyfriend pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter this morning.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:13:44 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Updated: Police find victim&#8217;s car</title>
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Elderly Afton woman was found stabbed to death with her car gone.
NBC 29 video           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:35:42 EST</pubDate>
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&#8220;I am sorry about the drug use,&#8221; Rice said in court.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:57:04 EST</pubDate>
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A judge Wednesday sentenced a Waynesboro woman to one year in prison for having sex with two teen boys and fraudulent credit card use.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:44:33 EST</pubDate>
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A Virginia Beach man is off the hook in Augusta County for charges of unlawful sale of police equipment, but is bound for jail anyway.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:03:37 EST</pubDate>
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A former Waynesboro man died early this morning after suffering a knife wound to the chest Wednesday night on King Ave.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Craigsville woman to one year and six months of electronic home monitoring and five years on probation for possessing and attempting to make methamphetamine and for distribution of marijuana.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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Police on Tuesday said they have arrested a Waynesboro man in connection with a Sept. 8 shooting they initially described as self-inflicted.
Police charged Brian H. Henkel, 18, of Maple Avenue, with discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling in the Sept. 8 shooting of Joshua Via, 21, who was staying at 520 Pine Ave.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reported the Thursday morning arrest of a 44-year-old Verona man who allegedly took a Bridgestone tire from a residence on the 700 block of Balsley Road in Staunton.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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Motorcycle racing frames, motors and parts, along with a Jeep transmission and parts of other various vehicles were stolen Thursday from a residence on the 100 block of Homeplace Lane in Stuarts Drafts, the Augusta Country Sheriff&#8217;s Office reported today.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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Graffiti appears on entrance signs to the Staunton office of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Archery Lane.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Sex charges certified for former city bus driver</title>
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Four charges of indecent liberties with a minor against a former Staunton bus driver were certified to a grand jury Wednesday in Augusta County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.            ]]></description>
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Three arrests since Friday have shuffled the Staunton Police Department&#8217;s &#8220;10 most wanted&#8221; list, police announced today.           ]]></description>
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A routine traffic stop outside Staunton city limits turned into a lengthy foot chase by police and ended in the arrest of a man on multiple charges in the early morning hours on Sept. 1.            ]]></description>
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Otis Harrison Jr. pleaded guilty this week in Staunton Circuit Court for his role in a double shooting in Staunton last Halloween and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.           ]]></description>
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A Waynesboro truck driver involved in a wreck that killed an Albemarle teenager on U.S. 29 will face a jury early next year.            ]]></description>
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A truck driver from Waynesboro involved in a wreck that killed an Albemarle teenager on U.S. 29 will face a jury early next year.           ]]></description>
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STAUNTON &#8211; Cory Beasley was found guilty by a 10-woman, two-man jury today of participating in a street race that caused the death of an Augusta County teenager last fall. 
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A 72-year-old Staunton man has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery in connection with separate incidents several months apart on West Beverley Street.           ]]></description>
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A felony involuntary manslaughter charge against a Staunton man was certified to the grand jury during a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Augusta County General District Court.           ]]></description>
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Following an all-day trial, a 12-member jury deliberated for 15 minutes Monday before finding a Staunton man not guilty of being a principal in the second degree in a road-racing accident that killed an Augusta County teenager.            ]]></description>
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A woman involved in a July 4 traffic accident that killed a moped driver was given the maximum sentence Monday in Waynesboro General District Court. 
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A man involved in a 2006 gang-related shooting was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday in Waynesboro Circuit Court.           ]]></description>
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A man involved in a 2006 gang-related shooting was sentenced to 28 years in prison today in Waynesboro Circuit Court.
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A woman involved in a July 4 traffic accident that killed a moped driver was given the maximum sentence in Waynesboro General District Court Monday.            ]]></description>
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After Hours Video Store owner Rick Krial and his store were each found guilty of one charge of obscenity today in Staunton Circuit Court.           ]]></description>
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STAUNTON - After Hours Video Store owner Rick Krial and his store were each found guilty of one charge of obscenity today in Staunton Circuit Court.           ]]></description>
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The Staunton obscenity case is now in the hands of the jury following closing arguments earlier in the day.           ]]></description>
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Waynesboro police are looking for three men who robbed a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint late Wednesday on Alpha Street.           ]]></description>
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Waynesboro police are looking for three men who robbed a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint late Wednesday night on Alpha Street.           ]]></description>
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Six people have already been excused from serving in a high-profile Staunton obscenity case that has attracted some heavy-hitting lawyers.           ]]></description>
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A Charlottesville man has been charged with shooting a woman in the neck at a Waynesboro apartment complex Sunday night. 
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner will make a number of Waynesboro stops Saturday prior to an evening appearance at a Staunton Democratic fundraiser.           ]]></description>
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A Charlottesville man has been arrested and charged with the Sunday night shooting of his girlfriend at a Waynesboro apartment complex.           ]]></description>
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A man was in custody Thursday night after he fled on foot from police on Broad Street following a stop for speeding.           ]]></description>
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Authorities twice have questioned a Crimora man in the disappearance of his live-in girlfriend less than five years after his wife&#8217;s killing, Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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Following an 11-month investigation, the Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, in cooperation with several law enforcement agencies, has announced the arrest of two individuals they believe to have been involved in a string of motor vehicle thefts and related burglaries.            ]]></description>
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A cash register, money-order machine and several cartons of Camel cigarettes were stolen in an early morning break-in Tuesday at the Rife Road Texaco in Waynesboro, police said.            ]]></description>
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