by James Ritch | Sep 12, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Sen. Lynwood Lewis, of the Virginia General Assembly, toured Northampton High School on Tuesday for a firsthand look at the challenges presented by the building’s declining physical condition as Superintendent Eddie Lawrence described the...
by James Ritch | Sep 12, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — An Exmore man admitted to police that he bashed out the windows of his mother’s car with a baseball bat before hitting the woman in the head with the weapon. A Northampton grand jury indicted James Jahlil Riley, 30, of Oakland Drive, Monday on...
by James Ritch | Sep 12, 2019 | Headlines, Uncategorized
By Linda Cicoira — More than $202.5 million was spent to purchase Virginia lottery tickets in Accomack County in the last 20 years, according to figures released this week by John Hagerty of valottery.com Meanwhile, in Northampton, the total came to nearly $104...
by James Ritch | Sep 12, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Hallwood Councilman Rich Selinsky wants more charges to be filed against Angela Taylor, the former town clerk accused of 65 counts of embezzling from town coffers. “It seems like there are a whole lot of charges missing from this case,”...
by James Ritch | Sep 12, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Aaron Jamarcus Bowens, who was paid $1,000 for injuring a police informant and was once accused of murdering an Exmore man, will spend five years in prison for his part in an October 2017 murder-for-hire conspiracy. Bowens, aka Easy and BOBO,...
by James Ritch | Sep 4, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — A Pennsylvania expert thinks it will cost nearly $539,000 to repair the railroad tracks between Parksley, where massive Associated Grain silos sit beside the defunct line, to Hallwood, for a seven-mile hike. That’s about six times less than...
