Emergency responders recreate fatal crash before prom Rappahannock County High School students and county emergency responders simulated a fatal car crash last Friday, hoping to teach young drivers about the dangers and consequences of impaired driving, before the...
‘Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It.' Rappahannock native Connie Compton leads law enforcement in a ‘small town’ county A Rapp News/Foothills Forum Special Report FF-RCSO-Compton-66-web.jpgSheriff Connie Compton at the Laurel Mills Store, where at age 14 she used to...
Two men were each sentenced to three years in prison in Rappahannock Circuit Court Thursday after pleading guilty to multiple charges linked to a December 2021 shooting in Washington where they shot into a home occupied by six people. Judge Dennis L. Hupp sentenced...
chester brown 3-21-24Chester Brown arrives at the Rappahannock County Courthouse Thursday morning, March 21, 2024. Found guilty last week on two others Chester Brown, who was found guilty of two firearm charges in Rappahannock County Circuit Court last Thursday, is...
03202024_Fire_Hayes_01-web.jpgA firefighter watches a brush fire through thick smoke along Route 211 in Washington the afternoon of March 20. County official: ‘I could not have had more pride’ The Rappahannock County volunteer fire and rescue system was challenged on...
Watch the meeting: Rappahannock County School Board Meeting, March 12, 2024 Requires financial boost from county The Rappahannock County School Board Tuesday approved a proposed $15 million budget, one that would require a big boost in financial support from the...
Chester BrownChester Brown Retired Circuit Court Judge Dennis Lee Hupp deferred ruling on a motion Monday to relocate Chester Brown’s two upcoming jury trials from Rappahannock County to a different venue after a jury could not be selected for his first trial on Feb....
Chester Brown stepsChester Brown arrives for a January court hearing. Multiple potential jurors struck from pool Chester Brown’s first jury trial was postponed today after the jury pool became too small to proceed. Brown, 63, appeared Thursday morning in Rappahannock...
Five months later, what we know — and don’t know — about a murder in Washington, Virginia Five months have passed since the body of Doris Ann Critzer was found in a grisly scene on the kitchen floor of her home, located within easy walking distance to the historic...
Jeffery DwyerJeffery Dwyer being escorted into the Rappahannock County Courthouse on Jan. 18, 2024. Jeffery Dwyer, 60, a Warrenton man accused of multiple counts of aggravated sexual battery, sodomy and indecent acts with a child, told a Rappahannock County Circuit...
“The Growing Threats to Journalists” presented by Andy AlexanderFoothill Forum Chair Andy Alexander discussed threats to news reporters Wednesday evening at the Rappahannock library. Jan. 24, 2024. As authoritarianism spreads, threats to journalists are growing around...
Andrew AlexanderFoothill Forum Chair Andy Alexander will discuss threats to news reporters Wednesday evening at the Rappahannock library. As authoritarianism spreads, threats to journalists are growing around the globe – and here at home. The number of journalists...
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