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Sheriff’s Office takes homeless kids shopping for clothing and school supplies

On August 29, 2012, about one week before school starts, the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office will treat 25 homeless kids to a shopping spree for clothing and school supplies. For 19 years, the Shop with the Sheriff program has partnered with Target to help needy children get ready for the upcoming school year. The children…


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…