Archive for the ‘General Interest’ Category
Thursday, November 24th, 2005
U.S. Border Patrol agents were backed down this week by armed men, dressed in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and carrying military weapons, who seized a captured dump truck filled with marijuana from the U.S. agents and dragged it across the border into Mexico with a bulldozer.
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Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Sheriff Mike Brown and his team from the Bedford County Sheriff's Office in Virginia will be making another trip to deliver needed items to law enforcement agencies in the Gulf States who are still struggling with the aftermath of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. We ran a ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
Make sure you take a nap tomorrow so that you can stay up until 0200 hrs. on Sunday to turn your clocks back. Since you are going to be up late anyway, go ahead and check the batteries in your smoke detectors.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Personnel Sent to Help in Gulf Hurricane Relief Since the Start of the Hurricane Katrina Response
State Agencies
Department of Conservation and Recreation - 2
Department of Emergency Management ? 15
Department of Health - 2
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries ? 24
Department of Social Services - 3
Department of Transportation ? 2
National Guard ? ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
I wanted to re-print the following message from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management because all Virginians should be proud of our folks who rendered assistance to the gulf states.
Virginia continues to send personnel, equipment and supplies on a rotating basis to the areas affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
If you live in Virginia and you want to vote on November 8, you have until tomorrow at 1700 hrs. to register.
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
A record 82 percent of Americans wear their safety belts while driving or riding in their vehicles, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta announced today at the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) National Conference, in Washington D.C.
According to a scientific survey by the DOT?s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2005
SPECIAL REPORT: COPS ON STEROIDS
Is the recent focus on steroids in baseball helping to cover up an even worse scandal? More than ever, police officers are juicing up to get an edge on criminals?but at what price? Cops have long been a hush-hush subset of anabolic steroid users, says a ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Congratulations to Jammie Swisher, who recently graduated from the Roanoke City Police Academy. As he begins his career, he will be walking in a well worn path.
His father, Buddy Swisher, has had a tremendous impact on numerous officers and deputies throughout the Roanoke Valley as a driver training instructor. ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
Sheriff Speziale,
After reading a newspaper article in the Roanoke Times pertaining to the incident where deputies from your agency were stopped in Augusta County, VA for exceeding the posted speed limit, I was hoping this was another case of inaccurate reporting by the press. However, after reading two additional ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
U.S. Court officials are reporting that scammers are calling unsuspecting people and telling them they have been selected for jury duty. They then ask the person to confirm certain personal information, like name and address, then ask for the person to provide his social security number and credit card ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
Ok folks, here is Ms. Nancy Giles' resume:
Resume of Nancy Giles'
Unions: SAG, AFTRA, AEA
Commercial
Many commercials and national voiceovers. List and conflicts upon request
Television
Dream On Recurring HBO
Fresh Prince Guest Star NBC
LA Law Guest Star ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
As I watched the television coverage of the hurricane devastation and President Bush's speech, it struck me yesterday that something was missing. Whenever there is a crisis anywhere in the world, the United States is always among the first to offer assistance. We are several days into one ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Effective today, all of us east coasters (including Virginia) are finally entitled to a free copy of our credit report. We can take the opportunity to see what's in our credit file at each of the three nationwide agencies.
Everyone thoughout the USA can now obtain a free report ...
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