VA News Archive
| 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... |
| 04/26/2009 |
| The Fitness Warehouse locating to Suffolk Shopping Center |
| SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- The Fitness Warehouse will soon open shop in the Suffolk Shopping Center in downtown Suffolk, Virginia. This will be the well-managed fitness club's fourth gym to be opened since the company's establishment eight years ago... |
| 04/26/2009 |
| March for Babies in Suffolk |
| SUFFOLK VA -- The Virginia Chapter of the March of Dimes held its 2009 Spring March for Babies walk. Suffolk's citizens successfully took part in the community sponsored 3.5 mile walk to raise funds for March of Dimes programs to prevent premature birth. Included in this article is a current list of March of Dimes funded projects in Virginia... |
| 04/24/2009 |
| James City County Gets Economic Expansion |
| SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Owens-Illinois, Inc. (O-I), a manufacturer of glass containers for food, beer, wine, spirits and non-alcoholic beverages, will invest $20 million to upgrade equipment at its manufacturing plant in James City County. Strauss Group and PepsiCo, to open a food manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County, creating 260 jobs. Three foreign companies pleased with business success in Virginia... |
| 04/11/2009 |
| U.S. Armed Services Veterans Spells Sales |
| SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Hampton Roads possess the largest concentration of active, reserve, and veteran military personnel in Virginia, and it is common knowledge that Suffolk also demographically provides for a large percentage of these patriots. Moreover, community oriented businesses' recognize the impact and contributions that this social group provides. Many of these businesses provide discount programs to show their appreciation and support for active and veteran military service personnel and their families sacrifice to our nations defense... |
| 04/09/2009 |
| Suffolk Virginia Unemployment Rising! |
| SUFFOLK VA NEWS - The seasonally unadjusted February 2009, unemployment rate is currently 7.0 percent, a 3.0 percent increase since February 2008, and also equal to overall Virginia's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate (7.0%). However, Suffolk's unemployment rate is median compared to other areas in Hampton Roads and it is much lower other troubled area's of Virginia... |
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