Mark Hand
Senior Reporter at Patch
Reporter, News & Advance. UVA grad. Covering Lynchburg. [email protected]
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4 days ago |
newsadvance.com | Mark Hand
The 14th annual Lynchburg Wine & Music Festival at the City Stadium complex on Saturday featured 17 Virginia wineries, cideries and distilleries — the most in the history of the event. The festival attracted more than 2,000 people, who also got to enjoy craft beers, food and live music. Throughout the venue, local merchants sold artwork, t-shirts, soaps and other handmade products.
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6 days ago |
newsadvance.com | Mark Hand
A Lynchburg woman charged with two counts of felony child abuse in the shooting death of her 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Wednesday to two years in jail. Karita Winston, 36, allowed her children to play with guns inside her home, making her responsible for the circumstances that led to the shooting death of her daughter, Malayshia Solomon, in February 2023, Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Bethany Harrison argued at Winston’s sentencing hearing. Lynchburg Circuit Court Judge F.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | Mark Hand
Early Thursday morning, fire heavily damaged a vacant Lynchburg house that the fire department believes used to be a group home. A passerby noticed the house fire on Hurdle Hill Road, near the intersection with Link Road, early Thursday morning and immediately called 911, the Lynchburg Fire Department said in a news release Thursday. The passerby then tried to alert anyone who might be inside the home.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | Mark Hand
A Lynchburg man found guilty in an August 2023 jury trial of assaulting a woman and forcing sex acts on her was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday afternoon. At trial, Donald Lee Banks, 59, was found guilty of two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of abduction, and one count of assault and battery of a woman. At Wednesday’s hearing, Lynchburg Circuit Court Judge F.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | Mark Hand
A Lynchburg judge accepted a plea agreement on Wednesday in a case where a man chased down a woman and stabbed her in the forehead, leaving her face covered in blood. At the plea hearing, Circuit Court Judge F. Patrick Yeatts heard the details of the case of Shaquielle O’Neil Booker, 31, of Gladstone, who agreed to plead guilty to one count of malicious wounding and one count of breaking and entering with intent to commit an assault and battery, larceny, or other felony.
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"With Thursday’s dropping of the retaliatory firing case, and the earlier dropping of a charge of giving false information to a publication, the Miyares investigation netted no convictions." https://t.co/YR8Xu6muyu
Richmond Department of Public Utilities Director April Bingham resigns a week after the failure of the city’s water treatment plant that caused a weeklong water crisis. #RichmondWaterCrisis https://t.co/lqMFkAAx7y
Ashley Burks, the new director of special education for Lynchburg City Public Schools, on special needs students: “I see potential, and I see where they could be.” https://t.co/WPUNLfO2uu