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1 week ago |
roanoke.com | John R. Crane
DANVILLE — Owners of a historic downtown building that’s listed as an endangered place still plan to tear down the structure. Preservation Virginia, a state historic preservation group, put the Davis Tobacco Warehouse at 601 Lynn St. on its Virginia’s Most Endangered Historic Places List for 2025 in May. The list includes 10 historic places across the state. Garrett Shifflett, one of the owners of the building, said they still plan to tear down the structure and replace it with apartments.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | John R. Crane
He’s been kicked out of the bedroom. The room where Confederate President Jefferson Davis slept during the last days of the Civil War now houses a permanent exhibit of Danville native and internationally renowned Black opera singer Camilla Williams.
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1 week ago |
godanriver.com | John R. Crane
He’s been kicked out of the bedroom. The room where Confederate President Jefferson Davis slept during the last days of the Civil War now houses a permanent exhibit of Danville native and internationally renowned Black opera singer Camilla Williams.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | John R. Crane
Stuart Yeaman likes helping families of fallen public safety workers and volunteers. Being a member of the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard enables him to provide assistance to those families. Whether it’s law enforcement, EMT service or fighting fires, working in public safety comes with sacrifice, so an honor guard plays a vital role in remembering and honoring those personnel who have died.
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2 weeks ago |
godanriver.com | John R. Crane
The man charged in connection with an October homicide has made a plea deal with prosecutors. Tyree Rafael Brandon, 29, pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon in Danville Circuit Court to voluntary manslaughter and discharging a firearm in a public place causing injury. He had been indicted by a grand jury in February on charges of second-degree murder, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and discharging a firearm in public to cause injury in the shooting death of 33-year-old Azra Jermann Keene.
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