COVID cases continue to rise across area
ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS — Cases of coronavirus have risen throughout Virginia with a seven-day moving average of 3,261 daily new cases reported throughout the state — an increase from last week’s seven-day moving of 2,750 daily new cases. There were 26 new cases reported in Alleghany County this past week; five new cases in Highland County;
therecorderonline.comAAA spokesperson on high gas prices: ‘We’ve never seen a Memorial Day from year-to-year jump like that’
The average price for a gallon of gas in the United States was $4.59 Tuesday, with it being slightly better in Virginia at $4.46 — both of which were all-time highs ahead of the Memorial Day Weekend.
Gov. Youngkin issues flag order in honor of Peace Officers Memorial Day
Governor Glenn Youngkin has issued a flag order in honor of Peace Officers Memorial Day, an annual commemoration of local, state and federal law enforcement officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice or who have been disabled in the line of duty.
Brittany Force breaks track marks in NHRA's Virginia return
Top Fuel points leader Brittany Force broke both ends of the track record at Virginia Motorsports Park in qualifying Friday for the Virginia NHRA Nationals. In the NHRA’s first event at the track in three years, Force had a 3.710-second run at 335.82 mph. She has nine of the 10 fastest runs in Top Fuel history. “It cleared up and (crew chief David) Grubnic had a goal set and we hit that mark,” Force said.
news.yahoo.comPrivate property owners sue over Virginia's hunting dog law
Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens. When Medeiros confronted a hunter nearby, the man told him he had permission to hunt on Medeiros’ property. In disbelief, Medeiros called the agency that enforces a state law allowing hunters to retrieve their hunting dogs from private property, even when the property owners object.
news.yahoo.comJury awards $15M in damages in UVA lacrosse player's killing
A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is liable for fatally beating his girlfriend in 2010 and must pay $15 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit, a jury found Monday. George Huguely V is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in the killing of Yeardley Love after being convicted of second-degree murder during a 2012 criminal trial. The lawsuit sought to hold Huguely civilly liable in Love's death and asked the jury to award $29.5 million in compensatory damages, plus $1 million in punitive damages to her mother, Sharon Love, the administrator of her estate.
news.yahoo.comJohnny Depp was set to be paid $22.5 million for 'Pirates of the Caribbean 6' before Disney canceled it following 'catastrophic' Amber Heard allegations
A manager for Johnny Depp said the movie was put on ice after Amber Heard's Washington Post op-ed describing herself as a domestic violence victim.
news.yahoo.comAmber Heard demanded Johnny Depp give her use of their apartments, the Range Rover and $125k cash as part of their divorce to keep things 'out of the media spotlight': letter
A 2016 letter from Amber Heard's lawyer was shown in court on Wednesday as evidence in Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial against his ex-wife.
news.yahoo.comBrit convicted as 'Beatle' in Islamic State beheadings trial
A jury convicted a British national Thursday for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded. In convicting Elsheikh, the jury concluded that he was one of the notorious “Beatles,” Islamic State captors nicknamed for their accents and known for their cruelty — torturing and beating prisoners, forcing them to fight each other until they collapsed and even making them sing cruel song parodies. Surviving hostages testified that the Beatles delighted themselves rewriting “Hotel California” as “Hotel Osama” and making them sing the refrain “You will never leave.”
news.yahoo.comGroup fighting school admissions policy goes to SCOTUS
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday called for a response from a Virginia school system regarding a controversial admissions policy at a highly selective high school and efforts by a coalition of parents to overturn it. Roberts was responding to an emergency application from the group Coalition For TJ to vacate a stay pending an appeal filed by the Fairfax County Public Schools to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On March 31, a three-judge appeals panel ruled that the school system can continue to use its new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology while it appeals a ruling that found the policy discriminates against Asian American students.
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