http://www.suffolkvanews.com/news.xml Suffolk VA News en-us Copyright 2006 BlackHorse Web IMC Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:01:00 GMT Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:01:00 GMT http://www.suffolkvanews.com/news.xml editor@357news.com (Crib) editor@357news.com (Crib) http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/agriculture-export.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/agriculture-export.php Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Virginia's agricultural exports grew by $100 million in 2009. Canada is top importer purchasing $198 million worth of Virginia's agricultural products. Virginia's Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Haymore accredited the agricultural sector's economic success to Virginia's farmers, processors, and manufacturers as well as Virginia's strategic mid-Atlantic location, and world-class port system...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/governor-legislation.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/governor-legislation.php Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Governor Bob McDonnell signed of emergency legislation that will immediately reduce the cost of electricity to Appalachian Power's residential customers by approximately 12%. These identical pieces of legislation were a cooperative bipartisan endeavor to respond to the steady rate increases, which led to hardship for the residents and businesses within the western and southern regions of Virginia. The law will no longer allow interim rates in cases like this...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/charlottesville-bank-fraud.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/charlottesville-bank-fraud.php Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Mary Ann Blair, while in District Court, waived her right to indictment and instead pled guilty to a one-count information charging her with bank fraud. Blair, or others, would obtain checks from local banks belonging to accounts that had been closed or contained no funds...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/NSP-funding.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/NSP-funding.php Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- The City of Suffolk will receive $971,444, a portion of an award of $17.5 million that has been issued to Virginia through federal neighborhood stabilization funding, for purchasing and rehabilitating foreclosed homes in certain economically troubled localities, so that they can be resold to low-to-moderate income families...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/sankofa-event.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/sankofa-event.php Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- What can be said about Suffolk VA's 4th Annual Sankofa Festival? More music, more vendors, and more people! This festival was a pure delight. Everyone was friendly and outgoing. However, do to the poor weather it did not draw as many folks as it should have...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/flight-festival.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/flight-festival.php Sun, 31 May 2009 23:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- This year's 12th Annual Virginia Regional Festival of Flight hosted by the Virginia Aviation Council was truly a successful event with perfect weather and plenty of interesting exhibits. According to Suffolk Executive Airport manager, Kent Marshall, Yesterday's event broke a historical record when the flight tower recorded more than 240 planes on the airfield at one time than at any other given time in the history of the Suffolk Executive Airport...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/rico-hotels.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/rico-hotels.php Wed, 27 May 2009 13:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- RICO indictment alleges $6 million criminal enterprise illegally employed hundreds of aliens at hotels and other businesses across the country. Charges include Human Trafficking...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/catfish-conspiracy.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/catfish-conspiracy.php Tue, 19 May 2009 21:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- Former president of Virginia Star Seafood Corporation, Peter Xuong Lam, has been sentenced to 63 months in federal prison. Lam a resident of Fairfax, VA, participated in a conspiracy that led to more than 10 million pounds of frozen catfish being imported from Vietnam, fraudulently labeled, and then sold in the United States as sole, grouper and other species...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/wyeth-lawsuit.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/wyeth-lawsuit.php Tue, 19 May 2009 12:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- The United States and 16 states including Virginia have joined in two whistleblower lawsuits against the drug manufacturer, Wyeth, alleging that the company knowingly failed to give the government the same discounts it provided to private purchasers for certain drugs, as required by laws governing the Medicaid program...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/recovery-funds.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/recovery-funds.php Sun, 17 May 2009 12:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) SUFFOLK VA NEWS -- In Washington, the United States Department of Labor certified for the release of $62,817,683 in unemployment insurance modernization incentive funds to Virginia under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Currently, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and South Dakota have been certified to receive funds. Now, Virginia has been added to the recovery list... ]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/most-wanted/chesapeake-fugitive.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/most-wanted/chesapeake-fugitive.php Thu, 14 May 2009 12:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) VA NEWS -- A Virginia fugitive who escaped prison 27 years ago has been captured in Eton, Georgia. Richard Boucher, now age 56, escaped from the Virginia Department of Corrections Prison in Chesapeake, VA. Boucher was serving a 10-year sentence for robbery...]]> http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/franklin-march.php http://www.suffolkvanews.com/virginia/franklin-march.php Mon, 11 May 2009 19:01:00 GMT cribmaster@mostwantedhoes.com (Cribmaster) FRANKLIN VA NEWS -- In Franklin VA, the Virginia Chapter March of Dimes will conduct the Western Hampton Roads 2009 March for Babies on Sunday, May 17, 2009. citizens who may have missed the Suffolk VA's 2009 Spring March for Babies walk, are encouraged to attend this weekend's event...]]>