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Richmond real estate promoter pleads guilty to mail fraud


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 4:18 p.m.

A Richmond real estate promoter who cheated 22 private investors out of more than $2 million and three banks out of $252,000 pleaded guilty to mail fraud in federal court today. Robert S. Capehart, 54, is facing up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 when sentenced May 24 by U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. The plea agreement calls for him to make full restitution of $2,305,000 ...

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VCU needs lots of help to get a bye


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 4:06 p.m.

    Hard to see a situation where VCU doesn’t finish either fifth or, more likely, sixth in the CAA standings. The Rams have unfavorable tiebreakers in most scenarios.    Which leads to the what if? question. What if VCU ...

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Ex-cop charged in Katrina bridge killing probe


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 1:36 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS—Federal officials have charged a former New Orleans police lieutenant with conspiracy to obstruct justice, accusing him of helping to cover up police shootings that killed two and wounded four others as they crossed a bridge in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina. Former Lt. Michael Lohman is also accused of making false statements to the FBI, according to a federal bill of information unsealed today ...

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All teachers to be fired at underperforming R.I. school


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 12:02 p.m.

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I.—A Rhode Island school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school. The Central Falls School Committee voted last night to fire every educator at Central Falls High School at the end of the school year. It’s the only school in the tiny, impoverished city north of Providence. Only about half its students graduate, and only 7 percent of 11th-graders were proficient in math in 2009 ...

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Blackwater suspect in Kabul shooting due in Norfolk court today


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:26 a.m.

A former Blackwater contractor charged in the shooting deaths of two Afghans is due in federal court in Virginia ...

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Fishermen rally in Washington today against catch limits


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:02 a.m.

WASHINGTON—Thousands of fishermen from around the country are gathering today in front of the Capitol to demand changes to a federal fisheries law they say is killing jobs and eroding fishing communities. Organizers of the “United We Fish” rally want to loosen federal catch restrictions they say severely damage their industry. A rally organizer, Jim Hutchinson Jr. of the Recreational Fishing Alliance, says the 2007 Magnuson-Stevens fishery law sets unrealistic fish stock recovery goals

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Prison, payback ordered in Va. mortgage fraud scheme


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 5:42 a.m.

NORFOLK—A Virginia Beach man has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution after pleading guilty to wire fraud in a mortgage scheme. The government says 44-year-old Wayne Marlon Benedic Lezama was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. He entered his guilty plea in November ...

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General Assembly Briefs for Feb. 24


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.

The nine-term delegate confirmed his plans yesterday in a news release touting support for his candidacy from fellow legislative Republicans. The release was sent to reporters on letterhead that read “Morgan Griffith for Congress.“ He is the first Republican to express interest in the race so clearly. The 51-year-old lawyer lives in the 6th District, just a few feet outside the boundary of Boucher’s 9th District, a mountainous, coal-country swing district. Virginia law requires only that a

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Residents try to save two Ginter Park Historic District homes


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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.

Residents of Richmond’s North Side are rallying to save two homes on Chamberlayne Avenue, about two months after they were recognized in an expansion of the Ginter Park Historic District. The Robins Foundation filed for permits to demolish the homes at 4200 and 4202 Chamberlayne Ave. and said it will proceed promptly unless a buyer steps forward ...

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Ohio man bulldozes $350,000 home facing foreclosure


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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 8:38 a.m.

MOSCOW, Ohio—An Ohio man says he bulldozed his $350,000 home to keep a bank from foreclosing on it. Terry Hoskins says he has struggled with the RiverHills Bank over his home in Moscow for years and had problems with the Internal Revenue Service. He says the IRS placed liens on his carpet store and commercial property and the bank claimed his house as collateral ...

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