The Fredericksburg Police Department expects to receive formal accreditation this weekend from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. City Police Chief David Nye told City Council earlier this fall that the process has been rigorous. Nye says 900 of the department's policies were reviewed and revised. Chief Nye will travel to Salt Lake City for final approval this weekend. He says the city department has met all the standards. He says accreditation should increase community confidence in the police department. Nye says it's taken three years of work to get to this point. He says everyone in the department knows what is expected. He says the next review will occur in three years.
The head of the Fredericksburg area Food Bank says they are still trying to get more turkeys for Thanksgiving. Oya Oliver says they had to buy 2-thousand turkeys this week because the number of donated turkeys coming in was not keeping pace with the demand....
Operation Christmas Child--the project where you fill a shoe box with school supplies, toys, candy and a letter--hopes go collect 11-thousand boxes in the Fredericksburg area ...
A former financial analyst for the Patent and Trademark Office has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from a government account. A former boyfriend who helped her received an identical sentence....
Health professionals say your best bet against catching H1N1 is getting a shot, when they become available. In the meantime, Dr. Lia Shorter with Women's Health and Surgery Center in Stafford says keep your hands clean...
A new report says that recycling rates remained steady in Virginia last year. The annual report by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality logs recycling rates of 324 cities, counties and towns and some businesses...
The wife of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after hitting a parked car in northern Virginia. Fairfax County Police say an officer stopped 76-year-old Charlene Lugar Wednesday evening at a McLean intersection after seeing damage to her car and smoke coming from the hood...
The Lincoln Memorial is expanding beyond its marble temple for those who may not get to visit the site on the National Mall. The National Park Service has launched a new, interactive Web site with videos, panoramas and oral histories...
Fatal hunting-related shootings in which a nonhunter is a victim are rare in Virginia. Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries spokeswoman Julia Dixon says none of the 39 firearms-related fatalities recorded since 1998 involved a nonhunter...
Civil rights organizations are asking Gov. Kaine to sign an executive order restoring the rights of nearly 300,000 felons before he leaves office in January. Virginia and Kentucky are the only states that permanently strip felons of their civil rights, such as voting, serving on juries or holding public office...
Can u play Heartless? And say its 4 Kylie from Morgan?
