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...West Virginia United Veterans National Cemetery Committee and urged the Veterans Administration to enlarge the Grafton cemetery. Instead, the federal agency decided to save money by digging up 627 unknown Civil War dead and reburying them in separate plastic urns in a mass grave. Over this grave, said the VA, it would erect an imposing common headstone with an inscription stressing the theme "Now We Are One." The VA actually opened up eleven graves and found only a few relics inside. Says Albright: "The dead had no uniforms, no identification, no nothing. So what's wrong with a common...
...imply that judges could close not only hearings but also actual criminal trials if a defendant agreed. Indeed, only a week after the decision, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed Judge Richard H.C. Taylor's decision to bar two reporters from a murder trial in a courtroom in Hanover, Va., where Patrick Henry had once orated in defense of freedom. Although several Justices later said publicly that their judgment had been misunderstood, more than 200 instances occurred in which various local judges attempted to bar the press from their courts. Last week a Supreme Court that appeared embarrassed...
Even routine activities like brushing teeth or reflex actions like sneezing and coughing can knock the back out of whack. The horror stories abound. In Alexandria, Va., Anne Moffett, 37, a mother of three, found herself stricken while bending over to make a bed: "Minutes passed, but I was too terrified to straighten up, even to withdraw my hands from the covers. Finally my mother came and coaxed me, inch by painful inch, into...
Gannett officials said the chain had to take a more active role in running the paper because McKinney, who lives in Middleburg, Va., was in Santa Fe so infrequently. Gannett Chairman Allen H. Neuharth said the decision was "outrageous" and "based on politics and provincialism rather than fact or law." McKinney declined to comment. The trial is set to resume next month to determine how the paper should be returned, and Gannett plans to appeal its loss. Groused one New Mexican staffer: "We'll be in a state of limbo for years...
Henry was indicted for the 1972 robbery of a Norfolk, Va., bank and, pending trial, held in a cell block with a forger named Edward Nichols. A secret FBI informant, Nichols had been told to "be alert to" any statements Henry made about the robbery. The two became so friendly that Henry confided facts that helped convict...