Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 27, 1993 TAG: 9310270175
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WINCHESTER - A Fairfax County sheriff's deputy who admitted removing a General Assembly candidate's campaign signs in Frederick County has been charged with three counts of petty larceny.
Bruce A. Yost, 34, of Cross Junction, told Frederick County Sheriff's Deputy W.E. Pifer that he took down signs for Democrat Raymond C. Sandy when he noticed signs for Sandy's Republican opponent, Beverly J. Sherwood, had been removed, authorities said Monday. Yost is a supporter of Sherwood.
Sandy and Sherwood are running in the 29th District, which includes parts of Winchester and Frederick County.
Frederick Circuit Court Clerk George B. Whitacre, a Democrat, said he found signs missing Friday night from his Cross Junction property in northwestern Frederick County. He followed a car that had been parked near his home until the driver sped off, Whitacre said Monday.
"By the time I got home, Yost's car was parked in my driveway, and he was standing on my front porch waiting to return the campaign posters he had just stolen," Whitacre said. - Associated Press
Norfolk gives orchestra deadline to pay taxes
NORFOLK - The Virginia Symphony must pay the city nearly $100,000 in back taxes by Nov. 10 or its property could be seized to settle the bill, city officials say.
However, symphony officials and Mayor Mason Andrews said a new fund-raising effort by the symphony is producing results and they expect the debt to be paid.
Andrews said the symphony has raised about $600,000 in recent weeks from area cities and donors to reduce its debt.
The symphony owes the city $94,522 in admissions taxes that were unpaid last year because of a misunderstanding by orchestra officials. They believed the symphony did not have to pay the admissions tax on unused concert series tickets.
If the debt isn't paid by Nov. 10, Barfield said, the city's only legal recourse is to seize symphony property.
- Associated Press
3 dead in FAA plane's crash in Warren County
FRONT ROYAL - A twin-engine plane owned by the Federal Aviation Administration crashed Tuesday in a wooded area near Front Royal, killing at least three people, the state police said.
State police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said searchers recovered identification for a 50-year-old New Jersey man from the wreckage in the High Knob area of Warren County. But she said authorities have not been able to determine the sex, race or identification of any of the bodies.
Caldwell said FAA officials arrived on the scene shortly after dark and began their investigation.
- Associated Press
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