Two high schoolers were killed in a Goochland County crash Saturday night.Preview: A southwest Virginia man is facing charges after allegedly driving around with a dead woman in his car for more than eight hours. The Washington County Sheriff's Office says 57-year-old Sanders Chad Barrett was arrested Thursday in the parking lot of a Sam's Club in Bristol. Investigators found the body in the rear seat of Barrett's vehicle and determined the woman had been dead for several hours. Barrett was charged with a felony for transporting and concealing a dead body and for possession of crystal meth.
The Loudoun County school system will not delay the start times of classes on more than a dozen days during the next school year. School district officials have decided to drop the idea of delaying classes for two hours on 16 different days. The plan would have allowed more time for teachers to focus on professional development and training. School board members say the idea received a lot of negative feedback from parents. They want to examine other ways to give district staff more time to complete training while minimizing the impact on students and families.
Americans still say real estate is the best long-term investment as of 2024. A new Gallup survey shows it's the 12th year in a row that respondents ranked real estate as the top long-term investment at 36-percent of those asked saying so, although the number has gone down compared to a few years ago. Stocks and gold follow real estate in the survey.