News Near You for Nov. 11

NEWS NEAR YOU

Henrico The Henrico County school system has set a public hearing tomorrow for next year's budget. The hearing will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Glen Echo Building, 3810 Nine Mile Road. The School Board's monthly meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

Richmond The deadline to apply for fuel assistance this winter through the Virginia Department of Social Services is Friday. Families and individuals must apply through local social-services departments. To qualify for fuel assistance, a one-person household's maximum gross monthly income cannot exceed $1,174. For a household of four, the maximum gross monthly income level is $2,389. The program assists with various types of energy sources, including electricity, natural and liquid propane gas, oil, kerosene, coal and wood. Funded by a grant from the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, the state fuel-assistance program serves about 122,000 households each year. Get more information from local social-services departments or http://www.dss.virginia.gov/benefit/ea/index.html.

Chesterfield The Chesterfield County Budget and Audit Committee will meet tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. in Room 502 of the Lane B. Ramsey Administration Building, 9901 Lori Road.

Richmond Children's Home Society of Virginia recently honored first lady Anne Holton with its Human Spirit Award during the agency's annual meeting. The award is given each year to a person or organization that has embraced and advanced the CHS mission of finding permanent homes for all children. Holton served for many years as a legal-aid lawyer representing lowincome families and then as a judge of Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. Through her work on the bench, Holton became involved in foster care and adoption, and she has worked to improve outcomes for Virginia's neglected and abused children.

Chesterfield Four boys were taken into custody in Chesterfield County during the weekend after businesses sustained as much as $6,000 in damages from windows broken by shots from a BB gun. Chesterfield police said residents alerted them about the vandalism Saturday night in the area of the 7100 block of Hull Street Road. Four boys in their early teens were taken into custody. Charges are pending. The damage occurred at Wilkinson Florist, Manchester Medical Center and to a truck belonging to Fresh to

AROUND THE STATE

Norfolk A Norfolk man whose infant daughter died of starvation will spend 15 years in prison. On Monday, a Norfolk Circuit Court judge sentenced Corey Bryant, who was convicted of second-degree murder and neglect in July. Prosecutors said Bryant's daughter, 10-month-old Miracle Bryant, died April 8, 2008.

Blacksburg A Virginia Tech center for student collaboration in a building wing that was the site of the 2007 massacre has been named for an engineering professor who was slain. The school's board of visitors on Monday approved the engineering faculty's proposal to name the room the Dr. Liviu Librescu Student Engagement Center. The center is one of six rooms in a renovated second-floor wing of Norris Hall, where student gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed 30 people on April 16, 2007, and then took his own life.

Norfolk Law-enforcement officers on motorcycles will be out on interstates in southeast Virginia this week to crack down on speeding and other violations. The Motor Enforcement, Accident Reduction effort, referred to as Project M.E.A.R., will include officers from Virginia State Police along with the Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach police departments. The Portsmouth Sheriff's Office also is participating. Throughout the year, law-enforcement agencies work together on projects to increase enforcement on roads, to track down people wanted on warrants and to identify criminal activity in undercover operations.