WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT THURSDAY, 1/17/08.
Storm dumps several inches
on Rockbridge area
Rockbridge County Schools and Lexington City Schools closed for snow Thursday. Parents and children sledded behind Waddell Elementary School all afternoon.
(ABRI NELSON / Rockbridge Report)
As Thursday dawned in Rockbridge County, schoolchildren cheered and grabbed their sleds. A winter storm dumped several inches of snow on the area, causing schools to close their doors for the day.
VMI construction death
triggers investigation
The death of a construction worker at a Virginia Military Institute building site last month has triggered a state investigation into a subcontractor's flawed safety record.
Ray Roland Porter Jr., 39, of Evington, was an employee of Bat Masonry, the subcontractor on the site. Porter died at the scene Dec. 6 after falling 56 feet. According to Lt. Col. Stewart MacInnis, associate director of communications and marketing at VMI, Porter was working on the Third Barracks building site on the VMI campus.
Produced by: Kat Greene, Nicole Mooradian and Abri Nelson
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