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According the this story from Channel 6, Roper Lumber is closing a number of its location two weeks before Christmas. If you read the comments attached it looks like the company may have declared bankruptcy – wonder if that means the Petersburg location will also be affected. From some of the comments, there are very [...] NABBED! Police in Washington, DC arrested Terrence Jamar Coleman, recently listed as Central Virginia’s Most Wanted, on Saturday in connection with the double murder of two women in a local rooming/boarding house. Full story from the WTVR Channel 6 website. I first posted something about this about 12 AM or 1 AM Thursday morning on Facebook but didn’t quite have all the details as far as the specific businesses and such but, here’s the full story from Channel 12 evening news. Here’s coverage of the same story from the Progress-Index. Virginia State University’s women’s basketball team, off to a 7-0 start, has broken into the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll for the first time in the program’s history. The Lady Trojans are ranked 24th in the nation in the latest USA Today/ESPN Poll, released on Monday, December 1. VSU jumped six spots and surpassed the program’s previous [...] Keith T. Miller, president of Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania, will become the 13th president of Virginia State University effective July 1. For the full story, check out the article from the Richmond Times Dispatch. CentralVirginiaMostWanted.com is listing Terrence Jamar Coleman as Central Virginia’s Most Wanted fugitive of the week. Coleman is wanted in connection with the weekend slaying of two Petersburg women who were residents of a boarding house in the 900 block of West Wythe – about half a mile from the Appomattox Regional Governor’s School. Petersburg Police [...] The groundbreaking yesterday afternoon for the Claiborne Square Apartments was about more than the future arrival of a new senior community. It was about revitalization throughout Petersburg. “We expect it to serve as a catalyst to these remaining areas,” said City Manager David Canada, mentioning development in such neighborhoods as Gillfield and Harding Street. For the full article, [...] WTVR is reporting that an office manager for Petersburg East Apartments was set on fire this morning on the way from her vehicle to the apartment complex office, by an employee who was dismissed yesterday. Kudos to PPD, the attentive neighbors and the PAT driver for nabbing the suspect in 30 minutes!! Full story [...] Apparently Oliver Lawrence, a rather notorious slum lord in Richmond, has problems here in Petersburg too. According to an article in today’s Progress-Index, 10 of his properties in Petersburg are being foreclosed on and are scheduled to be sold at auction. Lawrence was recently ordered to do time in one of his rental properties in [...] In the inbox from OTMG: Did you know that there is a special request hearing scheduled for Tues, Nov 17 regarding a special use permit for ANOTHER group home on Centre Hill Ct (by Centre Hill Mansion)? If you have an opinion on this issue or if you feel that this is not the best use [...] |
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