http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/ Burkeville, VA News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/fe424e8ccefa1c5dc6512c2c49c3207b.html Associated Press October 11 2008 11:45 AM ET BLACKSTONE Va AP Virginia cockfighting operations are shutting down because of new federal and state laws http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/fdc4dabbc5d3fb001b368f2d0314e982.html Scheduling conflicts will likely prevent a hearing set for Wednesday from taking placeIt took some doing but a replacement prosecutor is in place to try the civil court cases of four Gloucester County Supervisors facing a citizen effort to have them ousted from office http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/ef812193280ab273a7194dedf7dcab58.html CONCORD NC The winningest car in NASCAR Cup history will be on display at the new NASCAR Hall of Fame when it opens in 2010 Seventime points champion Richard Petty won 36 races in 196667 including a record 10 straight on the way to his 1967 championship in his blue No 43 Plymouth Petty agreed to lend the car from his own museum to the Hall of Fame set to open in 2010 in downtown Charlotte http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/8d896fd6fb340ece8546b42a1420bb28.html SARASOTA Fla 8212; Robert Dallas Bobby Irby 63 of Sarasota died March 7 2008 at home after a long illness He was born Jan 2 1945 in Blackstone Va He was raised since infancy by Frank and Marguerite Ryder Bogan Doyle formerly of Rocky Ridge Bath County Va Before moving to Florida he lived in Long Island NY and Landover Md http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/b1a84fc994d1f6e2490c9b655c3c725f.html Some families who have invested generations into cockfighting have gotten their feathers ruffled by new lawsBLACKSTONE Rooster crows fill the humid afternoon air as Billy Britton meanders through a field of about two dozen pens holding gamecocks and hensChickens generally live no more than 12 years or so but Britton's family has maintained some of these birds' bloodlines for more than 100 years http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/df2c0aa3563e00dddc133cd45edc31cf.html A Lake of the Woods security guard died at Mary Washington Hospital Tuesday following a singlevehicle wreck early Sunday morning http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/7ba956688e3b5278d64641f832451955.html A group of state and local clergymen today urged Virginia's governor and state police chief to reverse a decision prohibiting state police chaplains from using religious words like Jesus and Christ in prayers at department events To ask these brave men to be silent about the one in whom they have committed their faith undermines all that they are about and diminishes their ability to serve their fellow troopers the Bishop Gerald O Glenn senior pastor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield County said during a news conference this afternoon at the General Assembly building at the State Capitol http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/virginia/burkeville/content/c715f12f15ada37108fa50ac75b56553.html A fight to keep Jesus' name in prayers at Virginia State Police functions got an Amen yesterday from more than a dozen Virginia clergymen