Month: January 2024

January 8, 1891 — During the last week in Christmas, a child of Mr. B.F. Sours, who lives near Grove’s Mill, this county, died under circumstances indicating that it had been poisoned. Two days later […]

January 7, 1993 — Valuable reptiles stolen last month from the Luray Reptile Center on U.S. 211 West are still missing and investigators are chasing leads in what may be part of a larger crime.  […]

January 6, 1966 — Luray Police Officers Bryant Burke and Eugene Brubaker, working in corporation, picked up two boys Dec. 30, and charged them with taking a cigarette machine from the Tastee Freez Puppy Palace […]

January 5, 1989 — A smoke detector saved the lives of a Newport family Thursday in an early morning blaze and a Luray family lost all of their belongings in a fire Thursday night. The […]