Staunton News

24 Violations: 0 No violations were observed during this inspection. Comments: There were forty-one children present with seven teachers working directly with them.

Did you know that the city of Staunton once hosted the site of the commonwealth's largest lunatic asylum? Did you know that it will again soon? Of course we don't refer to the mentally handicapped ... er, mentally deficient ... er, those with intellectual capacity challenges as being lunatics anymore.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will be on hand for the groundbreaking Tuesday on a new psychiatric hospital that continues a long Virginia tradition.

STAUNTON - Jeremy S. Cason was a 23-year-old part-time baseball coach at Riverheads High School in March 1999 when a 14-year-old girl from the school snuck away from her parents house and met with Cason.

The Boy Scout Recruiting Center will be opening Friday next to Peebles in the Staunton Mall.

Enhancing access to health care by locating outpatient clinics close to where veterans reside is a key goal for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

HARRISONBURG - A Fishersville man was sentenced to 40 years in prison today after pleading guilty in the slaying of 20-year-old Michael Tolsdorf of Staunton.

STAUNTON _ Tyler S. Spencer, 23, a 2008 U.Va. graduate, was named as a 2010 Rhodes Scholar.

The Staunton City Hall was evacuated Friday afternoon after a carbon monoxide alarm went off.

STAUNTON - Workers were evacuating City Hall due to high levels of carbon monoxide gas that set off an alarm in an area of the Police Department about 5 p.m. Police dispatch functions were being shifted to the Augusta County Emergency Operations Center.

Shelby Owen's call to the ministry began early, but she managed to brush it off until she was settled into life as a wife and mother of three.

Zachary Christian Gill and Caitlyn Ann Ashton, both of 2106 Trailridge Court, Raleigh, were married Oct.

In Colton Berry's first directorial production since his return to the Shenandoah Valley, he re-imagines his highly successful 2005 production of Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast.' Berry has made major revisions from his earlier version.

Birds chirped Monday afternoon from inside the home at 330 Drury St. in Staunton.

STAUNTON - The Staunton Braves have received their first contracts for the 2010 summer, including deals with a pair of local standouts.

Mother Ami Keatts and her family like life in the Queen City. Keatts and her husband, Michael, have been raising their three children in the city they've grown to love.

STAUNTON - A former Staunton auto shop owner accused of filming a Robert E. Lee High School student as she performed oral sex on him pleaded guilty Monday to soliciting a minor for pornography.

STAUNTON - The city school administration has released its timeline for preparing and publicizing the 2010-11 budget.

Wind Chill: 41 F Dickie Bell's win for 26th District Delegate leaves the Staunton City Council with a soon-to-be vacant seat.

City officials released notification Friday regarding how they are accepting applications for candidates wishing to fill Dickie Bell's soon-to-be-vacated City Council seat.