Front Royal Mayor Hollis Tharpe was present with wife Debbie to hear a misdemeanor warrant issued for solicitation of prostitution by a Warren County Grand Jury...
What might the mayor of Front Royal and the owner of the New England Patriots have in common? If you said criminal scrutiny involving massage parlors,...
FRONT ROYAL – If it was a boxing match it would have been ruled a split decision – on Wednesday evening, April 10, just over an...
On Tuesday evening, April 9, Warren County’s elected officials found themselves between a rock and a hard place: a room full of people – estimated at...
Shortly after 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 9, Tabitha Zimmerman took the stand in her own defense against charges she was willfully negligent of signs of a...
While divided philosophically and criticized constituency for fiscal indecisiveness, the Front Royal Town Council unanimously approved a Real Estate Tax Rate of 13.5 cents Monday night....
The trial of Tabitha Zimmerman for negligent complicity in the death of one of her 22-month-old twins and physical abuse of the other on November 8,...
As referenced in our second story on ramifications of the investigation into financial wrongdoing and alleged embezzlement of FR-WC Economic Development Authority assets, the rationale used...
Today we add three more elected county officials to our record of public reactions to the escalating and seemingly never-ending story about the forensic audit of...
As noted in our story on approval of a half-million-dollar increase (to $760,000) in County funding of the financial investigation (forensic audit) and consequent litigation resulting...
At the April 2, 2019, Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting Shenandoah Supervisor Tom Sayre, who is engaged in dueling defamation lawsuits with Jennifer McDonald, raised...
FRONT ROYAL – Following an hour-and-a-half closed session discussion Tuesday morning, April 2, the Warren County Board of Supervisors upped authorization on the cost of the...
In a rare open meeting discussion of EDA financial anomalies on Monday evening, April 1 – we know, who’s the fool? – the Front Royal Town...
The day before the EDA financial corruption story began dominating last week’s news cycle several citizens confronted the Front Royal Town Council on the proposed solution...
On Friday, March 29, Earth Right Energy Solar Commercial LLC issued the second statement of denial of any involvement in money laundering, embezzlement or theft of...
Following a tumultuous five-day period culminating with the Tuesday, March 26 filing of a nine-defendant, 199-point civil suit filed on behalf of the Front Royal-Warren County...
The nine-defendant, 199-point civil suit filed Tuesday, March 26, on behalf of the “Warren EDA” as it is referred to in the lawsuit has broken the...
In the wake of recent revelations about ITFederal principal Truc “Curt” Tran’s decision not to relocate his IT solutions company to the remediated former Avtex Superfund...
The specter of slavish acceptance of misinformation from the Economic Development Authority and the handing over of a $60-million EDA-financed loan to tax-exempt Valley Health for...
Mark this day on your calendar – on Tuesday afternoon, March 26, the first legal hammer fell in the wake of a six-month, quarter-million-dollar-plus investigation of...
On Monday, March 25, Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. denied a defense motion to suppress the confession of Tabitha Rose Zimmerman to neglectful complicity in the...
During the regular EDA meeting of March 22, Interim Executive Director John Anzivino briefed his board of directors on ongoing business recruitment; the recruitment process for...
After four hours of pre-sentencing testimony and arguments on Friday afternoon, Chad Ritchie was ordered to serve 20 years of a 55-year sentence imposed by Warren...
While the big news to develop out of the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority’s second hour-plus closed session of Friday, March 22, was the resignation...
Both Greg Drescher and Ron Llewellyn announced their resignations, effective Saturday, March 23, following a second EDA Board of Directors closed session of Friday, March 22....
A Front Royal man accused of distribution and manufacture of methamphetamine just four blocks from the Jackson Street Front Royal Police headquarters was denied bond on...
FRONT ROYAL – “This will be a damaging loss for whoever loses,” Judge Ian Williams observed Wednesday of the time, effort and expense being put into...
Royal Examiner sat down with Warren County Sheriff Daniel McEathron Monday afternoon in the wake of his announced retirement effective May 1, 2019. Sheriff for the...
FRONT ROYAL – On Monday, March 18, Circuit Court Judge Clifford L. “Clay” Athey ordered a June trial in the 25-count case against former commercial breeding...
About 20 people, including 26th District Democratic State Senatorial candidate April Moore, gathered at Front Royal’s Town Gazebo at noon on Wednesday, March 13, to join...