Was a stillborn. The mother, 24 yearold katherine dellis, is in jail tonight, charged with a felony count of unlawful concealment of human remains. The investigation started when dellis was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital with symptoms consistent with recently giving birth to a third trimester baby. Dellis denied giving birth. Investigators search her home and interviewied her family. That led police to Franklin County dumpster site, where the newborns body was found. Rocky mount assistant town manager Matthew Hankins finding the body in the dumpster was a difficult circumstance for all of our officers, thats not a siutation you want them to be in or want a family to be in investigators say they were tipped after a relative tossed soiled linens at the dump site. Hundreds of family, friends, and people from the community remembered the life of Nicole Lovell this evening. The 13yearolds visitation was eariler tonight at the mccoy funeral home in blacksburg. Lovells funeral is
Business Owners Oppose Cigarette Tax Proposal Published on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 12:00am
There are no tax increases in Rockbridge County’s budget for fiscal year 2022 that was approved Monday by the Board of Supervisors. Consideration is being given, however, to a cigarette tax that, if approved as presented, would take effect halfway through the fiscal year.
Several owners of county retail outlets that sell cigarettes have come out in opposition to a proposal to establish a 30-cents-a-pack tax starting next Jan. 1. The tax, said Ubaid Kazi, owner of two local convenience stores, “will drastically affect my businesses.”
When customers learn cigarettes are more expensive here than in neighboring localities, said Kazi during a public hearing Monday on the proposal, they’ll take their business elsewhere, including their purchases of nontobacco products. He urged the supervisors to “