By Meg Hibbert
CRAIG COUNTY – From drought and flooding, forest fires and local efforts fighting drugs, to good accomplishments by the county’s kids and adults, Craig County and its people made news in 2012.
Here is a recap of top stories month-by-month, as reflected in articles and photographs published in The New Castle Record.
January 2011
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By Staff Writer
RICHMOND—Virginia State Police are investigating a police-involved shooting that occurred in Rockbridge County Tuesday, December 20, 2011.
The incident began Tuesday morning when Virginia State Police were notified by the Town of Vinton Police of a reported stolen vehicle possibly being in the area of Natural Bridge. Troopers responded to the area to search for...
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By Meg Hibbert
NEW CASTLE – A New Castle woman died as the result of a Sept. 13 fire in her second-floor apartment, which investigators believe was caused by a cigarette.
Friends are remembering Bonnie Williams as a thoughtful woman who was known for her chocolate fudge brownies.
Williams, 62, died at the University of Virginia Medical Center on...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Virginia State Police closed a 10-mile stretch of I-81 Wednesday between Montgomery County and Salem to reconstruct events related to the Memorial Day shooting of an officer and an off-duty deputy charged with murdering his ex-wife.
Northbound lanes between Exits 118 and 128 were closed for about four-and-a-half hours, until 2 p.m. They...
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By Staff Writer
SALEM — A woman is dead and her former husband is charged with murder in an incident that occurred on Memorial Day in Roanoke City and ended in Montgomery County. State Police reported that Jennifer Agee, 30, of Salem, died at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital from gunshot wounds.
Agee’s former husband, Jonathan Ashley Agee, 32, of...
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By Meg Hibbert
CRAIG COUNTY – Two women were arrested when Craig County deputies and other officers busted what Sheriff Clifford Davidson and Virginia State Police Special Agent Mike Bowman are calling “the largest active meth lab ever discovered in Craig County.”
The task force executed a search warrant on Tuesday, April 26, at 26616 Craig Creek Rd....
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By Meg Hibbert
GLENVAR – Roanoke County Police busted a methamphetamine lab on Fort Lewis Church Road in Glenvar in the early morning hours of March 26.
The bust and subsequent arrests were announced late today by police.
The meth lab bust came about after police stopped a car on West Main Street near the intersection with Fort Lewis...
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By Meg Hibbert
NEW CASTLE – Local residents thought it was another massive drug bust when dozens of members of the Virginia State Police Tactical Team met up to assist Craig County Sheriff’s Deputies last week.
Instead, it was to arrest one man, who was identified as Richard Todd Will in the Paint Bank area.
According to Sheriff Clifford...
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By Meg Hibbert
ROANOKE COUNTY – The man accused of abducting 12-year-old Glenvar girl Brittany Smith and a suspect in her mother’s murder is expected to arrive back in Virginia within hours from California where he fled with the Glenvar Middle School seventh grader.
Jeffrey Easley waived extradition from San Francisco in a court hearing Tuesday morning, Roanoke...
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By Meg Hibbert
Did she leave voluntarily or was she abducted by the boyfriend of her mother who apparently was murdered in their home?
That’s the question some people are asking each other after seeing surveillance video from the Salem Walmart the night of Dec. 3, when 12-year-old Brittany Smith is shown walking out of the store about...
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