by James Ritch | Feb 1, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat who grew up in the Onancock area, admitted Friday to being in a “racist and offensive” photograph printed in a 1984 medical school yearbook that showed two people — one was in blackface makeup and the other was...
by James Ritch | Feb 1, 2019 | Headlines
UPDATE By Linda Cicoira — Two adults and a child died Friday morning in a mobile home fire in Nelsonia, said Corinne Gellner of the state police. The remains were taken to the Norfolk medical examiner for autopsy and positive identification. Special agents with...
by James Ritch | Feb 1, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Three people, whose names have not been released by authorities, died Friday morning in a mobile home fire in Nelsonia, according to C. Ray Pruitt, director of the Accomack Department of Public Safety. Firefighters were called to Johnson Court...
by James Ritch | Jan 31, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — A bill that would create a state-maintained registry for adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation was introduced last month to the General Assembly by Sen. Lynwood Lewis. In his Eastern Shore Post column last week, Lewis said the intent behind...
by James Ritch | Jan 31, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Cheriton has sold its police car, a 2017 Dodge Charger with only 11,000 miles on it, to the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office, which now performs all patrols for the town. There’s not much left of the Cheriton police department that has been...
by James Ritch | Jan 31, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — The Virginia Institute of Marine Science will send a snail mail survey set to arrive this month in the mailboxes of about 1,100 hard pot crabbers licensed in Virginia. The goal is to gain input on how many pots watermen lose and what efforts...
