WAYNESBORO — A baby bald eagle is recuperating after a two-hour surgery Saturday morning to remove remnants of a golf ball-sized growth and fix its criss-crossed beak.

Baghdad’s presidential palace loudly echoed with rocket fire during the 10 months that Staunton’s 116th Brigade Combat Team was stationed there to provide support for Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander of Operation Iraqi Freedom troops. 

Alleged Interstate 64 sniper Slade Woodson was indicted by a Waynesboro grand jury today on six felony charges stemming from two early-morning shooting incidents in the city. 

The 16-year-old juvenile who plead guilty in an Albemarle County court Wednesday to participation in the string of shootings on and near I-64 in March is now facing charges in Waynesboro as well, police said.

Dave Morris and his wife, Elizabeth, of Waynesboro, received a $1.35 million settlement Wednesday in a case stemming from the September 2001 birth of their son.
Asphyxiated at birth, Hunter has cerebral palsy and brain damage. He will never live independently.

Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old Afton man facing charges for a string of shootings in Waynesboro and on Interstate 64 last month, appeared in a Waynesboro court this morning for an advisement on two new charges in the city.

Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old Afton man facing indictments for a string of shootings in Waynesboro and on Interstate 64 last week, appeared in a Waynesboro court Monday morning..

Several shots were fired at the Dupont Community Credit Union on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro early Thursday morning, hitting a window and exterior wall, as well as a sign and a repossessed van parked in front of the building, police said.

The Virginia State Police shut down more than a 20-mile stretch of I-64 in either direction after shootings wounded two people shortly after midnight.

Driven by steady winds, a fire spread across 1,000 acres of isolated, steep, rocky terrain Wednesday in St. Mary’s Wilderness near Steeles Tavern as federal park officials and anxious residents looked on.
“I stayed up all night last night watching it,” said Lawrence Phillips, 62, who lives along Spy Creek Lane in a residential area near the blaze. “When there’s a fire nearby, you’re always worried.”

VERONA - Augusta County’s Board of Zoning Appeals narrowly approved a special use permit for a controversial motocross track at Augusta Expoland on Thursday, clearing the way for the track’s possible opening by late spring.

Incumbent ‘Best Chef’ to defend her title at annual Taste of the Town.

Alex Lebenstein won’t be sleeping much tonight.  Every day he tells his story of surviving the Holocaust, it’s another night reliving haunting memories.

Krial faces misdemeanor and felony indictments.

2:42 p.m. The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Augusta County area from March 9 through March 14.

10:40 a.m. Handley High School in Winchester went into lockdown for over two hours while police searched for a student said to have a gun.

“I feel like we have done everything the Board of Zoning Appeals has asked us to do,’’ Argenbright said Wednesday. “I feel we’ll have a postive outcome [today].”

“I think people realized that she is ready to be president from day one,” Spruill said, referring to Clinton’s argument that Obama lacks the experience to be president in time of a crisis.

The state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that will impose one-year suspensions on the driver’s licenses of convicted underage drinkers. They also will pay a $250 fine or serve 50 hours of community service. A violation would be classified as a Class 1 misdemeanor.

In addition to the delicious eats, there will be a silent auction and live music by local favorite Scruffy Murphy, playing Irish tunes to get you in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day.

5:47 p.m. Officials approved today a proposed motocross track at Augusta Expoland.

1:47 p.m. The obscenity case against Staunton adult video store owner Rick Krial and one of his employees, Tinsley W. Embrey, will go to trial June 17, attorneys and the presiding judge decided in circuit court hearing this morning.

1:10 p.m. The co-owners of Waynesboro Galleries hope their road trip to the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Conference in Las Vegas will be a springboard to raise money for The Waynesboro Family YMCA.

1:17 p.m. A small bomb caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above “the crossroads of the world.”

12:57 p.m. Two accidents about two miles apart on southbound Interstate 81 forced lane closures earlier this morning, but VDOT reports that all lanes have been reopened.

9:50 a.m. A trial date in the obscenity case against a Staunton adult video store-owner and one of his clerks will likely be set this morning in a 10:30 am circuit court hearing.

“There’s always a chance that if she was wearing her seat belt she might have survived,” said Sgt. Michael Rossetti of the Virginia State Police.

11:00 a.m. A 16-year-old Fishersville girl was killed Tuesday night when her Jeep Wrangler flipped over on a narrow gravel stretch of Barren Ridge Road about one mile west of Route 250.

At least 32 jailed crack-cocaine offenders from the Shenandoah Valley, including three from Staunton, have received notices from the U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg that they are now eligible for reduced prison time, according to court records.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine plans to visit Staunton on Monday seeking support for a $1.6 billion higher education bond package that Republican rivals vow to topple.