'Beefy' Brown gets 20 years for role in cop's death
Nearly two years after he was arrested in a Briarwood house, Douglas Michael “Beefy” Brown Jr. received a sentence of 30 years with 10 suspended for his part in the death of a Colonial Heights police officer. Chesterfield County police in high-speed pursuit of Brown, when a cruiser struck the vehicle of the off-duty Colonial Heights officer. Brown had a long rap sheet in this area, the most unusual item of which was a 2003 assault conviction for, among other things, throwing his urine and feces at a correction officer while in custody in at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. At the time of the Chesterfield chase, Brown was AWOL from his Albemarle probation officer. # (0)
Nordin discusses '69 disappearance
Charlottesville journalist Barbara Nordin was on Rick Moore’s Sunday morning “Wake-Up Call” program on WNRN radio yesterday discussing the never-solved case of Judy Jones, a 21-year-old mother of four who disappeared from Stribling Avenue in 1969. In the podcast of the show, Nordin also talks about two other unsolved crimes, the 1986 disappearance of Pat Collins and the 1996 double murder in the Shenandoah National Park. (0)
Snap o' the day: Annie by Black Box
Yesterday’s 3pm performance of the musical Annie by the Black Box Players filled the auditorium of Burnley-Moran Elementary School. The show continues two weeks from now, May 16, 17, and 18. (0)
Snap o' the day: la familla goose
On private Loch Leigh, a water body that appears to be filling with sediment as surely as is the community’s main reservoir, a Canada goose family strolls along the lake’s western end yesterday afternoon. # (0)
Snap o' the day: Inside Kegler's
Momentarily ducking away from today’s sunny skies and warm temperatures (which topped out at 79 at 3pm), a 6-year-old bowler contemplates a split at Kegler’s on Route 29 North. (0)