
Former Rockbridge County Regional Jail superintendent sentenced on civil rights, bribery charges
John Marshall Higgins, the former superintendent of the Rockbridge County Regional Jail, was sentenced this week to 51 months in federal prison.

John Marshall Higgins, the former superintendent of the Rockbridge County Regional Jail, was sentenced this week to 51 months in federal prison.

A Chesapeake man is now facing an aggravated involuntary manslaughter charge on top of other charges in connection with the April 23 crash that took the life of a Waynesboro woman.

A Waynesboro woman is dead after a series of accidents in the region Friday night.

A Buchanan County man pleaded guilty this week to distributing child pornography using a means or facility of interstate commerce.

Attorney General Mark R. Herring commemorated National Crime Victims’ Rights Week by honoring 11 victims’ advocates at the fourth Unsung Heroes Awards ceremony.

A Harrisonburg man faces a misdemeanor charge after driving on Interstate 81 and eventually into the city with flashing red and blue lights.

A North Carolina man who used Snapchat to solicit minors to send him sexually explicit photographs and videos in exchange for expensive gifts pleaded guilty this week in U.S. District Court in Abingdon.

A report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety shows a 10 percent increase in wrong-way crash fatalities in the most recent four-year period studied.

A Stuarts Draft woman died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle accident on Route 254 just outside of Waynesboro on Sunday.

More than three out of five of traffic crash-related fatalities in the 2019 St. Patrick’s Day weekend involved a drunk driver.
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