Hanover County News

Flames and smoke rose from a grill as hotdogs and hamburgers broiled, and friends shared memories of a dedicated officer who died in the line of duty.

A Tazewell County native is among 59 fallen Virginia State Troopers who were honored today during a special ceremony in Chesterfield County.

Credit card thieves are on the prowl in Central Virginia. Deputies need your help finding a trio-of thieves who stole from a Hanover County woman - racking up thousands of dollars on her card.

Four women were nominated to represent the South Anna District, and three men were nominated to represent the Cold Harbor District.

"We didn't know anything about it. It's not the kind of publicity we'd like to have," said Caroline County Administrator Charles Culley.

The Hanover Sheriff's Office needs the public's assistance with identifying three individuals suspected of the theft and fraudulent use of a credit card, which resulted in several thousands of dollars in losses.

An increase on taxes levied on smokes and hotel rooms will help balance the proposed Ashland budget.

Hanover Citizens for Liberty, a new grassroots group, wants local residents to know this is an option to raise revenues for county services.

Hanover County supervisors have rejected a private zoo owner's request to obtain permits for four chimpanzees in his backyard zoo.

Good fences may make good neighbors, but apparently primates don't. Hanover County's Board of Supervisors is voting on whether Curtis Shepperson can keep his chimpanzees.

Two students hit by a vehicle Wednesday afternoon outside Lee-Davis High School in Hanover County have been taken to the hospital.

A Hanover man is fighting the county to keep his six chimpanzee's, and now the county is allowing the public to weigh in on this decision.

The roads are improving from the recent rounds of storms and high water closed down a portion of Shady Grove Road, near the Chickahominy River.

The projects are part of a total $68 million investment in road repair by the Virginia Department of Transportation as it prepares to resurface 984 lane miles of state-maintained routes in the Richmond region between April and November.

Time may be running out for six chimpanzees living in Hanover County. By June 23rd, county officials insist that four of the six chimps on Windy Oaks Animal Farm, must be relocated.

In 2011 Delegate Albo of Fairfax said, "If I had one vote in my 18 years to take back, it would be elected school boards, because they just don't work." The Friends of Hanover Schools recently voiced, and then reconsidered, an effort to move Hanover County to a referendum on elected school boards.

A judge on Friday dismissed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against three current and former Grafton High School administrators that alleged they did not stop the bullying of a student who committed suicide in 2010.

The Hanover County Planning Commission endorsed a rezoning request that would allow 172 apartment units on the southwest corner of Atlee Station and Kings Acre roads.

Kimberly K. Shepperson, 30, of the 8200 block of Bultaco Trail, has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding and arson.

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