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Halifax County Manager Tony Brown today pitched a .25 percent increase in the county’s sales tax to boost revenues.
Halifax County Manager Tony Brown today pitched a .25 percent increase in the county’s sales tax to boost revenues.
Governor Beverly Perdue will speak at Davie Middle School Monday at 10 a.m. in the school auditorium.
System spokesman Keith Hoggard said the governor’s visit is part of the system’s professional development seminar.
Former Manassas teacher Kevin Ricks was able to lure vulnerable teenage boys into his life for 32 years, leading to secret, drunken sexual attacks while deftly ducking police and school administrators. His international trail of abuse came to a halt in a Virginia courtroom Thursday with a guilty plea that ended his teaching career.
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Ricks, 50, acknowledged in Prince William County Circuit Court that he took indecent liberties with a 16-year-old boy who had been his student at Osbourn High School. The conviction means Ricks must register as a sex offender, and he could face as many as 10 years in prison at his sentencing Oct. 28.
He didn’t suffer a heroic death in the line of duty, but friends and family from the community, as well as officers from five local law enforcement departments showed up to memorialize and remember six year old canine officer Dan, who died earlier this week in Roanoke Rapids.
The city will get help from the engineering firm which did the Rochelle Park restoration on which plants can be safely trimmed without compromising the erosion control measures done for the project.
Several people in the neighborhood have complained the restoration effort, designed to rid the park of dangerous ditches up to 10 feet deep and control years of erosion, have made the park an eyesore. They have also complained the wooden fence surrounding the riparian buffer is unsightly.
