Roanoke Commonwealth s Attorney Donald Caldwell seeks 11th term wsls.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsls.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Locals pushing for changes in nursing homes across Virginia after neglect investigations
Commonwealth’s Attorney, family talking to lawmakers about changes they say are needed
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ROANOKE, Va. – Some locals are pushing for changes in nursing homes at the state level.
As we told you first on 10 News, charges aren’t being filed after an investigation into a Roanoke nursing home but that’s not stopping some people who want more.
Changes could be coming for how your loved ones are taken care of, if Donald Caldwell and Julie Parsons get what they want.
“Virginia apparently is among many other states that provides little guidance within the law about the standards of care that are required for nursing homes or assisted living facilities. That presents a problem for criminal prosecution in that you don’t have a standard in which to gauge what has been done or not done,” said Caldwell, Roanoke City Commonwealth Attorney.
Nearly a half-century later, marijuana martyr sees hope in Virginia newsadvance.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsadvance.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In March 1974, Roger Trenton Davis was sentenced to 40 years in prison for 9 ounces of marijuana, an unusually harsh punishment that would make him nationally known as the âmarijuana martyr.â
Today, possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal in Virginia. Davis is a free man. And the Southwest Virginia native, now 75, is making the best of both things.
âThat martyr? Thatâs who I am,â Davis said in an interview Thursday. âI believe that every person on the face of the earth should be allowed to enjoy Godâs herb.â
Davis spent hard time in prison for possessing an amount of marijuana that, under laws that took effect July 1, in most circumstances would be punishable by no more than a $25 fine.
Julio Cortez, Associated Press
John Hessler, 62, the patio section manager at Valley View Farms
in Cockeysville, Md., poses in his showroom.
COCKEYSVILLE, Maryland â People used to go to Valley View Farms to buy five tomato plants and end up with $5,000 in patio furniture.
This year is different. After a record burst of sales in March, the showroom floor is almost empty of outdoor chairs, tables and chaises for people to buy.
The garden supply store in suburban Baltimore has been waiting six months for a shipping container from Vietnam full of $100,000 worth of wicker and aluminum furniture. Half of the container has already been sold by showing customers photographs. The container should have arrived in February, but it reached U.S. waters on June 3 and has just docked in Long Beach, California.