Verona News

VERONA - John Randolph Lee Coffey, 57, husband of Wilma Chastain Coffey of 88 Augusta St., died Wednesday, Nov.

STAUNTON - Helen White, affectionately known as "Ladybug," formerly of 401 Greenwood Road, Staunton, went from the loving arms of her family to the safety of God's warm arms on Oct.

VERONA - Resident Charles Simmers describes himself as an old-school conservative.

The father of a man charged with voluntary manslaughter in the beating death of a Verona man said Monday he feels his work as a police drug informant in the 1980s might have triggered the deadly feud.

VERONA - The Augusta County Sheriff's Office arrested a Waynesboro man Friday on charges he molested a 14-year-old girl 25 years ago, Sheriff Randy Fisher said this morning.

The longtime girlfriend of a man jailed Thursday over a fatal fight said the victim's account of the brawl - written two days before a hemorrhage killed him - doesn't tell the full story.

When the fight broke out in the Dollar General parking lot, Chad Fields caught a fist to his face and a can of chili to his head, witnesses said.

Authorities this morning jailed a Verona man on a charge he killed an acquaintance in a fight earlier this month.

FORT DEFIANCE - Wind-driven rain early may have dampened the competitors, but not their spirits at the Elementary Cross Country Run for Fun hosted by the Blue Ridge Road Runners ON Saturday morning at Clymore Elementary School.

The band, Metallica is adding $50,000 to the reward fund, of a student that went missing at one of it's concerts.

A Stuarts Draft man will appear in court for a plea hearing today on charges stemming from his alleged attempt to hire a hitman to kill his ex-wife and her boyfriend.

STAUNTON - A Stuarts Draft man who earlier this year hired a sheriff's investigator posing as a hitman to kill his ex-wife and her fiance - only to give the hired hitman the wrong address and license plates of his targeted victims - pleaded guilty Monday in Augusta County Circuit Court to two counts of attempted capital murder for hire.

VERONA - Angela Faith Kania, 16, of 52 Limestone Road, daughter of Phillip M. Kania and Kathy VanLear, passed away Wednesday, Oct.

VERONA - Augusta County will build a fire and rescue station near Greenville, an area supervisors said is under served by emergency responders.

Angela Kania, the 16-year-old crash victim on Dam Town Road, has died. Virginia State Police say the teen died at 12:51 Wednesday morning at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

A single car crash in Augusta County leaves a teenage girl in critical condition, struggling to survive.

Congressman Bob Goodlatte speaks at GOP rally in Verona. With just a little over three weeks until election day, the GOP brought out the party big wigs in Augusta County to keep that part of the commonwealth "red." Party members say they anticipated about 500 guests for todays rally and even with that in and out drizzle plus Saturday football, they ...

VERONA - Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell told a crowd of more than 200 local supporters that there is a key ideological and philosophical difference between how he and his Democratic rival Creigh Deeds would fix the state's budget situation.

VERONA - Middle River Weekday Religious Education will present An Evening of Christian Music on Oct.

STAUNTON - The Rev. Burt Sare leaned over Gabbie, who will soon go under the knife for a hysterectomy, and performed a quiet prayer for her in the grassy courtyard of St.