STRASBURG -- Not only is Jody Lynn Bradley a murderer, he's also a hypocrite. Those are the charges his daughter and his ex-wife leveled against Bradley, convicted last week by a Shenandoah County Circuit Court jury of second-degree murder. They are outraged the jury recommended he only serve nine years in prison for shooting to death Brendon Manning Barker, 16, plus three years on a gun charge.
WOODSTOCK -- Ambulances are spending longer periods out of the county as patients are being taken to hospitals in Winchester and Harrisonburg, Shenandoah County Department of Fire and Rescue Chief Gary Yew said at the Board of Supervisors' public safety and code committee meeting Tuesday.
FRONT ROYAL -- A 17-year-old boy who helped four other juveniles orchestrate an armed robbery of a 7-Eleven in March must serve seven years in prison for his role in the plot, a Warren County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday.
STRASBURG -- In the coming years, Strasburg needs the flexibility to attract and accommodate different types of development, several members of the Planning Commission said Tuesday.
WOODSTOCK -- Bob McDonnell's visit to the Volunteer Farm of Shenandoah on Tuesday might have been low-key, but the surrounding political environment was anything but.
WINCHESTER -- A man driving on U.S. 11 Monday afternoon took his eyes off the road, causing a collision that sent three people to the hospital, state police said.
WINCHESTER -- Lisa Miller isn't going to jail. For her legal team, that's a win. But bucking another court order in her ongoing custody fight with former civil union partner Janet Jenkins could prove costly.
STRASBURG -- County officials and Strasburg Volunteer Rescue Squad leaders will meet this afternoon to discuss the squad's recent proposal for providing EMS coverage.
FRONT ROYAL -- The Town Council voted unanimously on Monday to advertise for public hearing an ordinance that would prohibit solicitation on town streets.
FRONT ROYAL -- Warren County residents who fear they will be adversely affected by a rezoning request to allow 320 homes also are concerned that some town officials have come to support the proposal before a vote has been taken.
WINCHESTER -- Two armed suspects broke into a home early Sunday morning and threatened a mother of four, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
EDINBURG -- A man wanted for manslaughter in Maryland was apprehended by a Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office deputy following a routine traffic stop, Maj. Scott Proctor said.
FRONT ROYAL -- One lane of the Shenandoah Avenue bridge over the South Fork of the Shenandoah River will be closed to north and southbound traffic during the day today through Thursday.
(10:40 a.m.) WINCHESTER -- Justin Shane Slater is incompetent to stand trial for the June murders of his brother and ex-girlfriend, a doctor has found.
Area schools will be stressing common sense as the academic year begins. In preparation of another year and the normal flu season, local school divisions are also readying themselves for the other illness hanging over their heads -- Novel Influenza A H1N1, commonly known as swine flu.
FRONT ROYAL -- Warren County Administrator Douglas P. Stanley says the money Front Royal Limited Partnership is offering to offset the impact of a 320-home development bears further review.
WINCHESTER -- The Winchester Regional Airport Authority directed the facility's manager Thursday night to look into making the airport's gates more secure.
FRONT ROYAL -- A longtime Warren County resident is asking local officials for permission to expand her rest home facility and provide more adult care units in the community.
Interstate 81: Shoulder repair, sign and fence repair, brush cutting, and litter and debris removal Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Also, bridge cleaning could result in lane closures Tuesday, 8 p.m.-7 a.m. Interstate 66: Bridge deck maintenance in Warren County, with...
WOODSTOCK -- Two members of the Shenandoah County Circuit Court jury that recommended on Thursday that Jody Lynn Bradley serve nine years in prison for murdering a 16-year-old boy said Friday that his sentence was too light. One of the jurors claimed another "blackmailed" the rest of the panel into a decision they didn't want to make.
STRASBURG -- Moving from Strasburg's current water plant to a new $14 million facility will be "like going from a Volkswagen to a Suburban," Public Utilities Director Ron Tewalt said.
FRONT ROYAL -- A Warren County man will spend 14 years behind bars after admitting that he sexually abused a girl under the age of 13 over nearly a 14-month period.
FRONT ROYAL -- Town Planning Commission member Therese Brown hopes to have a number of her questions answered Tuesday in regard to a rezoning application that could allow for more than 300 homes.
STRASBURG -- More than eight years of work paid off Friday morning when a group of town officials, staff members and others officially broke ground at the site of Strasburg's new water treatment plant.
WOODSTOCK -- A Shenandoah County Circuit Court jury recommended Thursday night that Jody Lynn Bradley serve nine years in prison for murdering his daughter's boyfriend.
HARRISONBURG -- A U.S. District Court jury has convicted the last defendant charged in a large-scale 2006 drug raid on Cartwright's Recreation Center in Winchester.
FRONT ROYAL -- For the past 27 years, at the end of summer, children have flocked to the Northern Virginia 4-H Center outside of Front Royal for camp. Despite the standard fare of horseback riding, canoeing, and arts and crafts classes, this is not an average summer camp -- all of the 103 children at Camp Fantastic are cancer patients.
Sex offenders in Virginia should be barred from using social networking Web sites like MySpace and Facebook, according to the Democratic nominee for attorney general.
WOODSTOCK-- The Town Council's water and sewer committee will reconvene next week to further discuss a hotel owner's request for lower water and sewer tap fees.
FRONT ROYAL -- Representatives of Front Royal and Warren County agree that it would be a good idea for the planning commissions of both jurisdictions to meet.
NEW MARKET -- Nothing is as timeless as griping about the weather. The threat of inclement weather led the New Market Area Chamber of Commerce to move the town's annual festival, Heritage Days, from October to August last year.
(Updated 8:55 p.m.) WOODSTOCK -- A Shenandoah County Circuit Court jury has found Jody Lynn Bradley guilty of second-degree murder in the slaying of his daughter's boyfriend, and recommended that he serve a total of 12 years in prison.
WOODSTOCK -- Jurors will resume deliberating the fate of confessed killer Jody Lynn Bradley when they return to Shenandoah County Circuit Court this morning.
Virginia's financial picture has continued to deteriorate, requiring another $1.5 billion to be cut from the fiscal 2010 budget, Democratic Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Wednesday.
FRONT ROYAL -- The Front Royal Planning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to table a vote on a rezoning request to build up to 320 single-family homes on roughly 150 acres near the intersection of Happy Creek Road and Shenandoah Shores Road.
NEW MARKET -- The Town Council is prepared to approve an annexation agreement with the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors as early as next month, Mayor Larry Smith said Wednesday.
WINCHESTER -- The fate of the old Taylor Hotel remains uncertain even as a developer met a deadline to give city officials his plan to restore the building.
WOODSTOCK -- One of the bigger headaches tied to going to the polls may soon go away. The long lines that face voters as they wait for their identification and other information to be checked on Election Day can be eliminated through electronic pollbooks, Shenandoah County Registrar Lisa McDonald said Wednesday afternoon. The pollbooks are not vote-counting equipment.
FRONT ROYAL -- A Warren County man charged with misdemeanor assault and battery arising out of an incident in which he was the victim of an alleged malicious wounding received a deferred disposition Wednesday in General District Court.
WINCHESTER -- Rep. Frank Wolf says health insurance needs to be reformed but Congress should not "throw the baby out with the bath water" in the process.
FRONT ROYAL -- Former Town Councilman Fred P. Foster Jr. says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is dragging its feet on cleaning up the Avtex SuperFund site.
WOODSTOCK -- Though Woodstock Police Chief Jerry Miller will retire at the end of the year, his successor will likely not start work until spring, Town Manager Larry Bradford said.
FRONT ROYAL -- Warren County Public Schools plans to provide online streaming video of School Board meetings in the coming months on the system's Web site.
FRONT ROYAL -- The Warren County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday night against a request to change the Blue Ridge Shadows residential housing development's building requirements for single-family homes.
FRONT ROYAL -- Attorneys involved in an open records lawsuit filed against the director of the Warren County Department of Social Services and the agency's board chairman are each crying foul.
WOODSTOCK -- A slow-moving thunderstorm that drenched the region Monday night flooded part of Woodstock's wastewater treatment plant and the town office building, Town Manager Larry Bradford said Tuesday.
WOODSTOCK -- Murder suspect Jody Lynn Bradley had threatened to shoot 16-year-old Brendon Manning Barker many times before he actually pulled the trigger, the defendant's daughter testified Tuesday, the first day of his trial in Shenandoah County Circuit Court.
(4 p.m.) FRONT ROYAL -- About half of the Virginia Inland Port's work force was laid off earlier this month due to declining cargo volume throughout the Port of Virginia system.
(10:55 a.m.) WOODSTOCK -- A slow-moving thunderstorm that drenched the region Monday night flooded Woodstock's wastewater treatment plant and town office.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has joined a local congressman's effort to learn more about why the Justice Department withdrew from a case of alleged voter intimidation.
BERRYVILLE -- A little more than 48 hours after an explosion at Berryville Graphics, the company is poised to return to operation, a company official said Monday.
WOODSTOCK -- Given the means, Shenandoah County Public Schools will get all the safety money can buy. Until then, schools will operate as they basically always have, and parents should not have reason to worry, school officials said Monday.
FRONT ROYAL -- The town Planning Commission hopes to hold a public hearing next month on proposed changes to rules for building on steep slopes in new subdivisions.
MT. JACKSON -- Towns within Shenandoah County are always searching for ways to stay unique yet also feed off the opportunities brought forth by others. With three recent decisions, the Mt. Jackson Town Council is doing a little of both.
Fortsmouth company struggling to manage emergency operations By Linwood Outlaw III - loutlaw@nvdaily.com FRONT ROYAL -- The Fortsmouth Volunteer Fire Company will continue its emergency medical services under the Warren County Fire and Rescue Department's agency license. The Board of...
WINCHESTER -- A single-vehicle crash on U.S. 50 in northern Frederick County sent a Stephens City woman to the hospital Monday, according to state police.
WOODSTOCK -- A heavy thunderstorm dumped about 5 inches of rain over the region Monday night, according to a bulletin from the National Weather Service in Sterling.
FRONT ROYAL -- For some in Front Royal, the twin forks of the Shenandoah River are just water under the bridge. But on Saturday afternoon, all the action was "On the River."
BERRYVILLE -- An explosion at Berryville Graphics on Saturday heavily damaged a portion of the plant but caused no serious injuries, fire officials said.
FRONT ROYAL -- A design firm's request for a conditional-use permit for Warren County's new public safety building has gotten the OK from the Planning Commission.
Elizabeth Wilkerson - ewilkerson@nvdaily.com WOODSTOCK -- While agricultural economic development and purchase of development rights programs are desirable in Shenandoah County, funding for them may be hard to find, officials said Thursday. At the county's Community Planning Project steering committee's...
WINCHESTER -- Black robes with long hoods usually aren't the most comfortable attire for an outdoor event in August. But Shenandoah University's graduating class of 2009 didn't seem to mind the heat at all.
Interstate 81: Shoulder repair, sign and fence repair, brush cutting, and litter and debris removal Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Also, bridge cleaning could result in lane closures Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Interstate 66: Bridge deck maintenance in Warren County, with...
The deadly tractor-trailer crashes on the length of Interstate 81 between Woodstock and Strasburg in recent months have caught the attention of Virginia Department of Transportation officials.
FRONT ROYAL -- Several members of the Front Royal Planning Commission are frustrated by a lack of information as they prepare for a public hearing on a significant rezoning in the Happy Creek Road area.
STRASBURG -- The Town Council has unanimously approved a proposal for survey, design and environmental services work for Strasburg's downtown enhancement project.
WOODSTOCK -- Virginia should create a tax holiday for businesses that create new jobs in places with high unemployment, according to a local candidate for the House of Delegates.
STRASBURG -- A Woodstock man walked away from a spectacular crash on Interstate 81 on Friday and has no idea how it happened, according to the Virginia State Police.
WINCHESTER -- A Frederick County man entered Alford pleas of guilty Friday morning on charges he solicited a 14-year-old girl to take nude photos of herself.
BERRYVILLE -- Councilwoman Gail Smith may have known the person who killed her, according to search warrants filed in Clarke County Circuit Court this week.
HARRISONBURG -- A cockfighting pit owner who may have testified against former Page County Sheriff Daniel W. "Danny" Presgraves has died, but prosecutors plan to introduce the substance of Presgraves' conversation with the deceased man through a third person, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court.
FRONT ROYAL -- The number of area public schools that are failing to meet federal standards is on the rise, according to results released by the Virginia Department of Education.
WINCHESTER -- A West Virginia man who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend in the eye, face and back with an ice pick 23 times will be spending more time in a Virginia prison.
FRONT ROYAL -- E. Wilson Morrison Elementary School students will have the option of attending another county school because of the school's failure to meet federal educational standards.
MIDDLETOWN -- Grant money could put the town on track to develop new water sources that are crucial to accommodating future development, according to Mayor Marshall J. "Mark" Brown.
FRONT ROYAL -- A local man accused of shooting at a couple's home in the Shenandoah Farms area in June has been indicted by a Warren County Circuit Court grand jury on three charges related to the incident.
FRONT ROYAL -- Former Ms. America Susan Jeske will speak out about the toxic dangers of cosmetic and personal care products as part of an event being hosted this weekend by the Wellness Health Network.
WOODSTOCK -- Shenandoah County's former chief jailer will seek the Board of Supervisors' District 4 seat as a write-in candidate in November's election, according to a Thursday press release.
Melissa Denson, 13, pulls her goat through a makeshift cave of hay bales Thursday at the sheep and goat olympics held at the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds. Dennis Grundman/Daily
(1:25 p.m.) HARRISONBURG -- Though a cockfighting pit owner who may have testified against former Page County Sheriff Daniel W. "Danny" Presgraves has died, prosecutors plan to introduce the substance of the conversation between Presgraves and the owner through a former Page County Sheriff's Office employee, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court.
STRASBURG -- A proposal from the Strasburg Volunteer Rescue Squad, which wants to resume its service, is now making its way from the agency's attorney to county officials, squad leaders said this week.
STRASBURG -- Though the Strasburg Fire Department has already solicited proposals, the town will request new bids for work on the firehouse roof, officials said Tuesday.
FRONT ROYAL -- The House of Hope's recent designation as an affiliate United Way member is a shot in the arm for the men's homeless shelter on Warren Avenue.
FRONT ROYAL -- A fire that started in the pantry of a two-story home on Wednesday morning has temporarily left a mother and her son without a place to live.
(3 p.m.) FRONT ROYAL -- A fire that started in the pantry of a two-story home on Wednesday morning gutted its kitchen area and caused significant damage to the upper floor levels.
