Va Gov. Bob McDonnell backs Romney in spite of Dog Scandal

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell crosses over to the dark side animal-wise, endorses Mitt Romney, the guy who strapped his little dog to the top of his vehicle and high tailed it across Canada

This is a James River News short take filed from the field via electronic means

Beautiful Women of the Mid-Atlantic, 2012 Edition

Well, a Brand-New Year, and time for the first in our 2012 series of of beautiful women of the mid-Atlantic, a James River News exclusive. Our operatives spotted this one out at Hanover County Courthouse today. She's a reporter for a broadcast television station in central Virginia. More to come.

Broadcast News Reporter Sarah Bloom at Hanover County Courthouse, Hanover County Virginia

Gov McDonnell speaks about Patrick Henry Charter School

A James River News short take, filed from the field via electronic means.

Will the Richmond School Board like what he has to say, considering their position on the Patrick Henry venue?

VCU students reportedly robbed in the 500 Block of West Broad Street

A sobering reminder that danger can lurk around any urban campus such as that at Virginia Commonwealth University and students ignore the potential dangers at their own risk.


A JAMES RIVER NEWS short take filed from the field via electronic means.

Posters are still up by the canal for a missing man

Drained the canal in River City, Police found a body here yesterday

Killing Deer on Sunday, the Virginia General Assembly might say "yes"

The Commonwealth of Virginia is one of only a handful of States that ban the killing of animals via hunting on the Lord's Day, that is, on Sunday.

 But those who practice this deadly trade want to change that and to that end last year they were in league with a Democrate who goes by the handle of State Senator Chap Petersen (D-34).
 This fella "Chap" Petersen had arranged for the Conservation and Natural Resources Committee of the Virginia General Assembly to take up his Senate Bill 850 sometime in late January of 2011.
 Senate Bill 850 was a bill that would have  introduced hunting into the forests and wooded areas of the Commonwealth of Virginia on Sunday.

According to published reports, that cat never hit the floor.

 Sunday in Virginia is a day when the woods are full of hikers and the nearby farms are able to relax without fear that their livestock will be gunned down by errant bullets fired in haste by hunters seeking a trophy Doe or Buck to decorate the wall above their mantle piece and perhaps put some meat on the table.
 Of course the backers of Senate Bill 850 would have given you all kinds of reasons why going afield with shot and shell and filling the air with gun smoke on the Lord's Day is a Holy thing, but for the most part their arguments are obvious and  short on credibility and so we will not address them on these pages.

Livestock wearing Blaze Orange to protect them from Deer Hunters in the Mid-Atlantic

How much support there is for hunting on the Sabbath in Virginia is questionable. The hunters themselves seem to be divided on the issue.
But one thing is for sure, if some form of this bizarre piece of so-called "legislation" returns for consideration in the upcoming 2012 session of the Virginia General Assembly and if it passes, we will surely see more of these, livestock of all description outfitted in the latest of Blaze Orange gear during hunting season in Old Virginia.



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Horror on the Mountain, Flying Saucers invade the Blue Rdge

In Part One of this opii,  the reader learned that Bob Trent, news director for a medium market broadcast television station in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States dispatched myself and ace reporter August Wallmeyer to a small county nestled in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of Flying Saucers.

This journey was prompted by a phone call from the High Sheriff of said county claiming he has captured and secured an alien craft of unknown origin

Before James River News, there were Flying Saucers

Before James River News, there were Flying Saucers.

A couple of days ago, I promised to share my experiences on the UFO beat many years before  James River News. 

You can find that article, which was prompted by the  sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects and the resultant law enforcement mobilization to search for downed aircraft and/or pesky aliens in Dinwiddie County the other night at this link.

 Now for this weird and wacky tale.

The day started routinely enough. I was working day-watch out of a medium market broadcast television station situated in the mid-Atlantic region of the  Eastern Seaboard of the United States of America.

My partner for the day  was crack reporter I'll just identify as August Wallmeyer. The News Director was... Bob Trent.

Crime Scene Photography, exclusive

This is a James River News exclusive photograph of the Christmas Eve crime scene in the East End Richmond, Virginia.
Basically a man Richmond Police say was fleeing a murder scene grabbed a SUV a citizen had left on the street with the motor running and his or her child in the back seat.
Police are quoted in other publications as saying that they did not believe the fella knew there was a child in the car.
In anycase, the fella abandoned the SUV in this cemetery with the child asleep in the back unharmed.

Police are for looking for Jamal Louis Clemons in connection with this crime. RPD says the man is wanted for abduction and robbery and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony by a convicted felon.
The Virginia State Police had issued an Amber Alert for the boy they said was Kaiden Gage Burnside.
Suspect Clemons is said to be a black male in his mid to late 20s, 5' 8" with black hair, wearing dark jeans and a black zip-up sweat shirt with a hood. He is believed to be armed with a revolver.

Two people were killed in this incident in a house on Richmond's Church Hill.



Filed from the field via electronic means.