THE INDEPENDENT NEWS COURTHOUSE — Police Officer John Jordan III, who works the evening shift in the First Precinct, was recognized last month as
Category: Public Safety
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – People in the city’s rural reaches are urged to be extra vigilant in the wake of thefts from cars
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – Pungo Strawberry Festival officials and city police have done outreach on the parking and traffic game plan for
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS COURTHOUSE — An adult beagle suffering from a tumor on her side was discovered in a crate left in a ditch along
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – A grand jury on Monday indicted a Virginia Beach emergency medical services officer on a count of reckless driving
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – Rescue officials helped Terry Huss, 63, of Holland Pines ashore at the Dozier Bridge ramp near the 2500 block
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE CREEDS — The herbs were in place, and the bird was almost ready, but Master Firefighter Joe Grandison, 63, wanted to secure
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE — City animal control responded to a call earlier this year about an injured or possibly rabid raccoon in the Malibu area
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS COURTHOUSE — Police discussed the planned introduction of body-worn cameras, which may come in 2017, during a meeting of the First
Charges in hog operation off Salem Road, but wider use of public land for unauthorized farming shown
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE — A retired city employee who is facing animal cruelty charges was involved in one of three separate agricultural operations that used public