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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 of a man who made millions of dollars flying marijuana into Virginia and Florida from Colombia, Mexic...

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 goings on. It all seems to have begun with a man named Danny Gordon, who at the time was a local radi...

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 alert. Furey said the province's Emergency Management Office did not get the approved message and text...

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. "The victims of this violence are teachers here at Riverview High School," the letter states.  "Alt...