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Courts

  • Judge reviewing Keepers' interrogation

    CHRISTIANSBURG — Natalie Keepers’ motions hearing came to a conclusion late Wednesday in the Montgomery County Circuit Court, but Judge Robert Turk reached no decision on defense requests.

    Keepers, a former Virginia Tech student, stands accused of being an accessory before the fact to first-degree murder and concealing a dead body in the January 2016 stabbing death of 13-year-old Blacksburg teen Nicole Lovell. Keepers was 19 at the time of the incident.

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  • Confession questioned at Keepers' hearing

    Staff Reports

    CHRISTIANSBURG — Testimony on the first two of four days hearings was mainly concerned with statements Natalie Keepers made to police after the stabbing death of 13-year-old Nicole Lovell last year.

    The defense team for Keepers — who is charged with being an accessory to murder — has filed five motions in the Montgomery County Circuit Court. Four days of motions hearings began Tuesday.

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  • Public record for 1/18/17 edition

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    Land Transfers

    These land transfers were recorded in March in the office of Susan M. Herrington, clerk of the Grayson County Circuit Court, Independence:

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  • Public record for 1/11/17 edition

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    Land Transfers

    These land transfers were recorded in February in the office of Susan M. Herrington, clerk of the Grayson County Circuit Court, Independence:

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  • Court to hear motions in Lovell murder case

    Staff Report

    CHRISTIANSBURG — As Natalie Keepers prepares for four days of motions hearings this month, her attorney wants a judge to throw out incriminating statements she made to police during the investigation of Nicole Lovell’s death.

    Lovell, 13, of Blacksburg, was killed in January 2016 and her body was found just outside Grayson County.

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  • Public record for 1/4/17 edition

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    Land Transfers

    These land transfers were recorded in February in the office of Susan M. Herrington, clerk of the Grayson County Circuit Court, Independence:

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  • Will pot law go up in smoke?

    Landmark News Service

    RICHMOND — A month after saying he was open to studying the decriminalization of marijuana, the top elected Republican in Virginia has formally asked a key legislative commission to look into the issue.

    State Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment had opposed decriminalization in the past.

    But during a Nov. 1 appearance in Norfolk, he said: “I think it’s absolutely crazy that we continue to lock people up for possession of a modest amount of marijuana.”

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  • Public record for 12/28/16 edition

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    District Court

    These sentences were recorded in July in the Carroll County General District Court office, Hillsville. Sentences may be appealed:

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  • Public record for 12/21/16 edition

    Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record.  
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    District Court

    These sentences were recorded in July in the Galax General District Court office, Galax. Sentences may be appealed:

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  • Fries woman pleads guilty to federal drug charge

    Staff Report

    ROANOKE – A Fries woman, who reportedly conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine in and around the Hillsville and Galax areas, pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke.

    A news release from U.S. Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr.’s office confirmed that Bianca Victoria Aroche, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess 50 grams or more of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, and to distributing drugs.

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