Today's News

By Jon D. Applebaum, CEO of Twin County Regional Healthcare

RICHMOND — The work to protect state “Samaritan” workers by strengthening the penalties against reckless drivers has ended until the 2015 session of the General Assembly, say family members of a Virginia State Police trooper killed in the line of duty.
Trooper Andrew David Fox died Oct. 5, 2012, of injuries sustained when he was struck by Angelica Valencia’s car. Fox was directing traffic at the Virginia State Fair near Richmond.

HILLSVILLE — When emergency responders fought knee-deep snow to reach a cardiac patient in Hillsville during last month’s winter storm, a citizen not only saved the day for paramedics and firefighters, but also might have saved the patient’s life.
Mike Musser, assistant chief of the Hillsville Fire Department, wrote to The Gazette last week to recognize Orba Semones for his assistance on the call.
He said firefighters “had an occasion to witness something quite extraordinary” in Semones’ kindness.

RICHMOND — Virginia officials hope to save lives on fog-prone Interstate 77 in Carroll through the Active Traffic and Safety Management System project, now fully-funded and scheduled to begin in spring, Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Monday.