News Stories Tagged "courts"

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Teen Says He Witnessed Fatal Beating, Helped Destroy Evidence

Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009

A 17-year-old Loudoun County youth told police in April that he witnessed portions of the beating death of William Bennett along a Lansdowne parkway in February, that the two men who killed Bennett laughed about the crime as he drove them away, and that he helped them burn their blood-soaked clothes after the random attack. Read story and 59 comments »

Leesburg Plans Utility Rate Change

Out-of-Towners to Pay Less; Residents, More

Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009

The Leesburg Town Council proposed new utility rates last week that would gradually reduce the water and sewer bills of out-of-town customers but slightly increase those of residents. Read story and 1 comment »

Guilty Plea, No Jail Time In Erotic Services Killing

Thursday, July 16, 2009

An Arlington County man who killed another man he met through an erotic encounter advertisement on Craigslist pleaded guilty yesterday to manslaughter, but he will not serve any jail time. Read story and 4 comments »

Violinist Fighting Extradition to Va. on Solicitation Charge

Thursday, July 2, 2009

One of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's top violinists is fighting extradition to Virginia on charges he used the Internet to try and entice a 14-year-old girl into having sex. Read story »

Assistant Principal to Be Repaid for Legal Fees

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Loudoun County School Board decided last night to pay in full the legal fees for an assistant high school principal who had faced charges related to child pornography that were dismissed in March. Read story and 41 comments »

Seabrook Sentenced For Ashburn Burglaries, Criminal Record Revealed

Monday, June 8, 2009

On June 4, the woman who pled guilty to a series of daytime burglaries in Ashburn was sentenced to 15 months in prison, as her 27-year criminal history seemed to be finally catching up to her. Read story and 1 comment »

Leesburg, Dominion Agree on Easements

Town to Get $2 Million In Deal on Power Line

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Dominion Virginia Power has agreed to pay Leesburg $2 million in exchange for easements that the utility needs to build a transmission line. Read story and 6 comments »

Ashburn Strangling Case Will Go to a Grand Jury

Boyfriend Confessed, Investigator Testifies

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

An Ashburn man confessed that he strangled his girlfriend in late March after a heated argument, then kept her body hidden under a bed in his apartment before authorities discovered it more than two weeks later, according to testimony yesterday. Read story and 2 comments »

Loudoun News Briefs

Thursday, May 14, 2009

News briefs in Loudoun County. Read story and 1 comment »

Leesburg Seeks More Time on New Water Fees

Judge Is Asked to Extend Deadline Until December

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Leesburg officials have asked a Loudoun County judge to extend until December his deadline for the town to reduce its controversial water and sewer fees. Read story and 1 comment »

Convicted Rapist Charged in Another Sexual Assault

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A man sentenced to life in prison last week for raping a 75-year-old woman in August in her Sterling Park home has been charged with a similar sexual assault that occurred several months earlier, Loudoun County authorities said yesterday. Read story and 57 comments »

Judge Cuts Award in Mold Case

Lacks of Permanent Injury Cites; Couple to Get $1.4 Million

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A $4.75 million jury award to a Loudoun County couple who said an extensive mold problem in their new home made them sick was excessive and will be reduced to $1.4 million, a Loudoun judge has ruled. Read story and 31 comments »

HCA Sues to Overturn Broadlands Vote

Hospital Fight Returns to Court

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

HCA Virginia has sued the Loudoun Board of Supervisors for denying its application to build a 164-bed hospital in Broadlands, saying that the board’s vote was “arbitrary, unreasonable, capricious and illegal” because the state health commissioner already had approved the hospital’s location. Read story and 5 comments »

Transcript: Weingarten on the Death of Children in Cars

Monday, March 9, 2009

The case of Miles Harrison of Purcellville forgetting his son in his car, where the toddler died in the sweltering July heat, is not so uncommon. Gene Weingarten will be online today at noon to discuss his story about parents who have left their babies to die in hot parked cars. Read story and 1 comment »

Housekeeper Sentenced to Prison for Stealing from Clients

Monday, March 9, 2009

The housekeeper who stole tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry and valuables from those whose homes she cleaned across Northern Virginia has been sentenced to more than 2 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution. Read story »

Fatal Distraction

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake. But is it a crime? Read story »

Bias Claim In Child Porn Case Is Rejected

Bid to Remove Prosecutor Fails

Saturday, March 7, 2009

A judge ruled last week that Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney James E. Plowman has not displayed bias in his prosecution of a high school administrator charged with possession of child pornography, rejecting a defense motion to have Plowman removed from the case. Read story and 2 comments »

Va. Judge Selection Process Criticized

Group Challenges Lack of Public Input

Monday, March 2, 2009

A group of more than 200 Virginia residents, calling themselves the "Pitchfork Rebellion" and frustrated with the way the state selects judges, wants the public to have more say in who sits on the bench and for how long. Read story »

Latino Lawyer Among Candidates for Bench

Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009

Of the 175 circuit, appeals and Supreme Court judges in Virginia, not one is of Latino or Asian descent. Read story »

Va. Doubts Arise On Spending of Tobacco Windfall

Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009

The tobacco farms had already begun to disappear from the state's landscape when Virginia officials started funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to the depressed southern region to try to boost the economy. Read story »

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