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06/09/2009
Charlottesville Virginia - Blair Guilty to Bank Fraud
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Mary Ann Blair, while in District Court, waived her right to indictment and instead pled guilty to a one-count information charging her with bank fraud. Blair, or others, would obtain checks from local banks belonging to accounts that had been closed or contained no funds....

06/08/2009
Virginia Granted Neighborhood Stabilization Funding
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- The City of Suffolk will receive $971,444, a portion of an award of $17.5 million that has been issued to Virginia through federal neighborhood stabilization funding, for purchasing and rehabilitating foreclosed homes in certain economically troubled localities, so that they can be resold to low-to-moderate income families...

06/07/2009
Sankofa Festival - Celebrating African American Heritage
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- What can be said about Suffolk VA's 4th Annual Sankofa Festival? More music, more vendors, and more people! This festival was a pure delight. Everyone was friendly and outgoing. However, do to the poor weather it did not draw as many folks as it should have...

05/31/2009
12th Annual Regional Virginia Festival of Flight Complete Success!
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- This year's 12th Annual Virginia Regional Festival of Flight hosted by the Virginia Aviation Council was truly a successful event with perfect weather and plenty of interesting exhibits. According to Suffolk Executive Airport manager, Kent Marshall, Yesterday's event broke a historical record when the flight tower recorded more than 240 planes on the airfield at one time than at any other given time in the history of the Suffolk Executive Airport...

05/27/2009
Criminal Enterprise Illegally Employed Hundreds of Aliens at Hotels
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- RICO indictment alleges $6 million criminal enterprise illegally employed hundreds of aliens at hotels and other businesses across the country. Charges include Human Trafficking...

05/19/2009
Virginian Sentenced to 63 Months for Catfish Conspiracy
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Former president of Virginia Star Seafood Corporation, Peter Xuong Lam, has been sentenced to 63 months in federal prison. Lam a resident of Fairfax, VA, participated in a conspiracy that led to more than 10 million pounds of frozen catfish being imported from Vietnam, fraudulently labeled, and then sold in the United States as sole, grouper and other species...

05/19/2009
VA Joins Two Lawsuits Against Wyeth
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- The United States and 16 states including Virginia have joined in two whistleblower lawsuits against the drug manufacturer, Wyeth, alleging that the company knowingly failed to give the government the same discounts it provided to private purchasers for certain drugs, as required by laws governing the Medicaid program...

05/17/2009
Virginia to Receive Recovery Funds
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- In Washington, the United States Department of Labor certified for the release of $62,817,683 in unemployment insurance modernization incentive funds to Virginia under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Currently, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and South Dakota have been certified to receive funds. Now, Virginia has been added to the recovery list...

05/14/2009
Virginia Fugitive Captured in Georgia
VA NEWS -- A Virginia fugitive who escaped prison 27 years ago has been captured in Eton, Georgia. Richard Boucher, now age 56, escaped from the Virginia Department of Corrections Prison in Chesapeake, VA. Boucher was serving a 10-year sentence for robbery...

05/11/2009
Franklin 2009 March for Babies Scheduled
FRANKLIN VA NEWS -- In Franklin VA, the Virginia Chapter March of Dimes will conduct the Western Hampton Roads 2009 March for Babies on Sunday, May 17, 2009. citizens who may have missed the Suffolk VA's 2009 Spring March for Babies walk, are encouraged to attend this weekend's event...

05/10/2009
Shake Rattle and Roll - Car Show!
SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Shake Rattle & Roll antique and classic car show in downtown Suffolk, Virginia was a blast! More than 80 antique and classic cars from all over Hampton Roads and throughout the East Coast attended this festive event. The Shake Rattle & Roll antique and classic car show was dedicated in honor of the racers, records and fans of the old quarter-mile concrete track at Suffolk Airport, which closed in 1991...

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06/07/2009
Washington Ditch Dismal Swamp
SUFFOLK VA MEDIA -- The Washington Ditch provides the main entrance for visitors hiking to Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. The Washington Ditch provides the main entrance for visitors hiking to Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. This video is typical of an average hike along the ditch in the month of May...
Suffolk VA News - Dismal Swamp Washington Ditch Hike

06/07/2009
Sankofa Fest Video
SUFFOLK VA MEDIA -- The 4th Annual Sankofa Festival at Constant's Wharf Park in downtown Suffolk VA!
Felix Paco Valderrama, drummer who plays with the band JuJu

05/10/2009
Rhondels
SUFFOLK VA MEDIA -- The Rhondels performing at Shake Rattle and Roll in downtown Suffolk VA!
The Rhondels

05/03/2009
E-Z Street Band
SUFFOLK VA MEDIA -- E-Z Street Band performing at Whaleyville Community Day!
E-Z Street Band


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