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MILLIE ROTHROCK Wytheville Enterprise BLAND COUNTY, Va. — A Los Angeles film company has acquired the rights to “Chasing the Squirrel,” a true-crime book by author Ron Peterson Jr., about one of Bland County’s most colorful characters. The book is in development as a multi-episode documentary series targeted for a streaming service or cable network. “Chasing the Squirrel” tells the story of dashing drug smuggler Wallace Thrasher, a handsome, daredevil o...

The small town of Wytheville, Virginia, sits up against the Blue Ridge Mountains and is at first glance a peaceful, somewhat rural slice of small town America. Not much typically happens here, and it is mostly a quiet place with historical buildings and quaint streets. Yet back in 1987 this normally placid town would be beset with a series of strange sightings of things in the sky that have remained unexplained to this day, peppered with bizarre accounts, tales of cover-ups, and very sinister g...

Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey told CBC News at 6 that he wants the time period between the preliminary police investigation being conducted and an alert being issued to be shortened. "The earlier a public alert is issued, the greater opportunity for public safety and detention of the subjects of those public alerts," he said Wednesday.  Furey said the vehicle was located at 9:30 a.m. AT in Amherst. More than an hour later, at 10:40 a.m., the RCMP tweeted they were requesting an al...

Posted: Jan 06, 2021 4:19 AM AT | Last Updated: January 7 Jansen Bryan Baker, 24, was arrested without incident shortly before noon by the Amherst Police Force.(Katie Simmonds/Facebook) A teacher was the victim of a shooting on Riverview High School property Tuesday, the school says. In a letter posted on its website Wednesday night and attributed to "RHS staff," the school refers to "an incident" that occurred just after 5 p.m. and resulted in a serious but non-life-threatening injury. "T...