From the Associated Press:
Virginia regulators have ordered the state’s second largest local telephone company to gradually reduce the charges it imposes on other phone companies to connect to its network.
The State Corporation Commission said Friday that Embarq’s intrastate access revenues are inconsistent with a state policy promoting competition in the telephone marketplace.
Audie Murphy picked a crazy time to ask Shades, “Hey, Rueb, since you can travel back and forth in time, what you want to be when you grow up?”
“Murph, I don’t have time for this, why in the world would you ask me that now?”
“I don’t know, the question just came to mind that’s all.”
“Let [...]
From Verizon:
On Saturday, May 30, for the first time ever, local former Alltel customers will have access to the nation’s largest, most reliable wireless network as Verizon Wireless opens for business in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Madison Heights, Martinsville and South Boston, Virginia.
Virginia’s unemployment rate fell in April from 6.9 to 6.6 percent. Nationally, the U.S. unemployment rate is 8.6 percent. Arlington County has the lowest rate in the state at 4.1 percent and Martinsville has the highest at 20.2 percent.
How many times growing up as a child did someone taking a picture of you tell you to say “cheese?” This practice is still common because people want to be seen in a photograph with a smile on their face.
Now consider, there’s going to be a new “no smile policy” that will be in place [...]
City Council met Tuesday where Vice Mayor Kimble Reynolds was absent and Councilman Danny Turner voted against the new city budget, but the other 3 council members were enough to pass the plan on first reading due to start July 1.
The Henry County Board of Supervisors met yesterday where they discussed the noise ordinance and what they’re going to do about it. Just when they thought they had it worked out the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the Virginia Beach noise ordinance is too vauge and unconstitutional. All the other localities in Virginia with noise [...]
Representatives from Henry County and the City of Martinsville will meet jointly Thursday night to receive the Master Plan for each of the area’s two newest business park locations.
The Master Plans for the Roma property and the Bryant property will be unveiled Thursday beginning at 6 p.m. to an audience of County and City officials. [...]
Delegate Danny Marshall petitioned Governor Tim Kaine to invoke executive order if needed, while working with the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) and the State Attorney General’s Office to help local laid-off workers who are being asked to repay unemployment benefits that had been miscalculated. Delegate Marshall asked that the overpayments not be collected until the [...]
As reported by the Greensboro News & Record:
Virginia man escaped a possible death sentence Tuesday when he pleaded guilty to the 2006 murder of a Reidsville man.
Kevin Devon Morrison, 41, of Martinsville, Va., pleaded guilty in Rockingham County Superior Court to second-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon for killing Robert Lindsey Johnson III. [...]
