A Chester Gap man who was teaching his girlfriend how to shoot his pistol and wound up shooting his neighbor in the leg was sentenced in Rappahannock County Circuit Court this week on a charge of reckless handling of a firearm. […]
Until the last couple years, she explained, she didn’t realize that a brain injury her now 29-year-old son suffered when he was a child might have been a factor in his alcohol and drug abuse and the crimes he committed. […]
A 17-year-old student arrested in April by the Sheriff’s office for conspiracy to possess a firearm on the property of Rappahannock County High School was back in juvenile court June 14 for his criminal trial. […]
Culpeper United Methodist Church was the target of anti-Christian vandalism early Tuesday. […]
It looked to be a fairly routine day in Rappahannock County Circuit Court last Thursday — a short docket, no trials — until Kevin Lee Brown sassed Judge Herman A. Whisenant under his breath, earning Brown a serious rebuke and additional jail time. […]
Midway through a hearing that lasted about three hours, the student, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, was seen being led by a sheriff’s deputy out the back door of the Rappahannock County Courthouse. […]
At the request of the Rappahannock County Treasurer, the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s initiated an investigation in March 2017 concerning the County government’s accounting practices. […]
Local realtor of was found not guilty of assault Tuesday in County District Court. Judge Ashwell, ruled that inconsistencies in witness testimony created enough reasonable doubt as to the actual circumstances surrounding the charge. […]
The Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office responded to another perceived threat at the high school Tuesday after “the office of the high school was informed that a young student made a comment about blowing up the school.” […]
Under tight security and a blanket of privacy, a 17-year-old former student of Rappahannock County High School — charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm on the property of the high school — appeared in Rappahannock County Juvenile Court yesterday. […]
Once again Judge Alfred D. Swersky denied Marian Bragg’s petition to the Circuit Court to declare that certain actions taken by the Board of Supervisors violated Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). […]
At least two male students of Rappahannock County, Virginia, High School counted down the days until last Thursday — the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting massacre — when according to a court affidavit they plotted to “make Columbine look like a joke” and “blow this place to pieces.” […]
A juvenile has been arrested following a reported threat to the Rappahannock County, Va., high school. […]
Kenneth Eugene Bennett was present on April 6, courtesy of the Rappahannock Shenandoah Warren Regional Jail. Shortly after his no-show on March 13, he was arrested and incarcerated. […]
The RSW Regional Jail Authority Board voted last Friday to appoint Gilkison as superintendent of the regional jail, which holds County prisoners and others in the region who wind up on the wrong side of the law. […]
A surprising week in court: a no-show defendant in a jury trial; a young man convicted of reckless driving leaves in tears; and the wife of a county supervisor is accused of assault. […]
According to a written witness statement, Jenkins, 53, of Sperryville, was observed on January 24, 2017, in the parking lot of the Union Bank & Trust in Washington striking parked cars with a skillet. […]
Former Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Matthew McCormack of Amissville has issued a plea of not guilty surrounding the alleged felony sexual assault of a child younger than 13. […]
Bryan Daniel Graves, 29, of Rixeyville was sentenced on charges of driving while intoxicated and causing maiming and a second-time DWI offense; and a 19-year-old Amissville resident denied bond for breaking and entering offense. […]
A local attorney who has practiced law in the County for 14 years is the newly appointed judge to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for Rappahannock, Fauquier, and Loudoun counties. […]
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