The move ended attempts to ban such weapons in this year’s Virginia General Assembly by referring it to a commission for “further review.” Maybe next year, maybe never.
Last year, companies that track use of the internet to provide online photos and videos of children being sexually abused found 45 million such items online — an amount double the previous year. “Twenty years ago, the online images were a problem; 10 years ago, an epidemic,” reports The New York Times. “Now, the crisis
Power went out and our automatic Generac whole-house generator kicked in around 1:25 pm Sunday. APCO does not show any widespread outage on their website as this is written. We have reported our outage. UPDATE: Power came back on at 1:51 pm. Our generator went through its shutdown cycle and everything seems OK. Emal that
Like many Americans — too many say some — I take an opiate painkiller. Three times a day, I down two 50mg Tramadol tablets — a total of 300mg by day’s end — to dampen the pain lingering from a serious motorcycle accident seven years ago. I left the hospital taking the drug and have
Another large-scale power outage in Floyd County, starting around 7:16 am Sunday, affecting more than 3,400 customers and an expected restoration time of 1:30 pm. Appalachian Power says their workers restored power to most customers at 12:5 pm after an outage of 5 hours and 17 minutes. The outage stretched along U.S. 221 from south
Wife Amy grew up in a Catholic family in Belleville, Illinois, a moderate-sized city across the Mississippi river from St. Louis. This week, a report from the Archdiocese of Chicago, identifies 22 priests from the Diocese of Belleville as child sexual predators. One is Father Garrett Neal Dee, who served in Belleville from 1974-76 and
Our electric power returned over APCO electrical lines at 8:30 am Tuesday. Our Generac whole house automatic generator shut down a few minutes later after keeping power to the house for a little over 17 hours.
Power went off at 3:20 p.m. Sunday. Still off at 7:00 a.m. Monday and Appalachian Power ways they are still “assessing condition.” Assessing? Thousands of customers have no power. That’s the condition.
Double whammy on the Richmond scandal carnival Wednesday. Virginia’s Democratic Attorney General, Mark Herring, admitted he dress up in blackface in college to sing a rap song with his buddies and the woman who says Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax sexually assaulted her went public in graphic detail about a blow job that she says he
Most of those who monitor the state government happenings in Richmond and around the Old Dominion bet Gov. Ralph Northam will step down today, giving in to the multitude of calls for his resignation in the aftermath of his decision to cover his face with dark shoe polish in 1984 to participate in a Halloween