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Synthetic Drug Problematic for US Authorities

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Virginia – A new synthetic drug, commonly called bath salts, hit America’s streets a couple of years ago, but it went unnoticed until police began reporting cases of addicts with bizarre behavior.  Then, last month, authorities in Miami, Florida accused a man of eating another man’s face. It’s calm now.  But it hasn’t…


2nd Annual Remembering Dave Motorcycle Ride

We lost Dave on 30 May 2010 in a tragic accident as he returned home from the nation’s capitol just having participated in “Rolling Thunder”.  Dave was a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a soldier, a law enforcement officer, a boy scout troop leader, a teacher and a man strong in…


Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial Week

CERTIFICATE of RECOGNITION By virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution in the Governor ofthe Commonwealth of Virginia, there is hereby officially recognized: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS’ MEMORIAL WEEK WHEREAS, the safety and well-being of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia are of the utmost importance to the prosperity and livelihood of Virginia’s families…