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...
court gavel Rapidan resident Jonathan Aaron Perch, 23, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $500 in Rappahannock County Circuit Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to reckless driving while on his way to work at The Inn at Little Washington. Perch was...
Chester Brown court vanChester Brown arriving at Rappahannock County Circuit Court on Thursday. Rappahannock Circuit Court Judge Matthew Snow denied a motion Thursday to dismiss an indictment against Chester Brown on charges of possessing a firearm while a protective...
Joe-Whited-80-web.jpgMayor Joe Whited Jan. 7: Joe Whited, the Town of Washington’s new mayor, advocates a two-year holiday on meals and lodging taxes for new and expanding businesses in the community. Jan. 9: By a 3-2 margin, the county’s Board of Supervisors votes to...
“A Time To Break Silence” celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sunday with a virtual event centered around election transparency, voting rights and voter suppression. The annual event series was founded at the Castleton Festival in 2012 by activist Orson Maazel, who...
Habitat loss, poaching threaten the ancient reptile in Virginia The next time you see a turtle think of what life on earth might have been like 220 million years ago. Turtles have been around for that long. They saw dinosaurs come and go; survived the Ice Age; and...
“Woodville’s history is a series of layers, and one of those layers was the 1960s and 70s when the hippies came to the community,” said local historian Misty Hitt Wright whose family ties to the village date back to the 1840s. Beginning in the mid 1960s, William Lane...
If not for Ben Raines, the world wouldn’t know one of the most dramatic stories of the last 163 years. In 2018 upriver from Mobile, Ala., this former journalist discovered the wreck of Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach our nation. Moment of...
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