{"id":14803,"date":"2015-12-27T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=14803"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:30:05","slug":"quickhits-122715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/27\/quickhits-122715\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickHits! (12\/27\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What? No QuickHits yet in the month of December? Let&#8217;s get that fixed right now by taking a look at some of the stories that have caught my eyes over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The QuickHits Big Board has got cobwebs on it. Let&#8217;s clean those off and roll it out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesnews.com\/article\/20151226\/NEWS\/151229473\" target=\"_blank\">A probably-drunk mother kills her 7-year old daughter in a Christmas night Alamance County wreck. The impact split the car in half.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefranklinnewspost.com\/news\/rocky-mount-man-sentenced-to-months-for-hanging-noose-in\/article_7508309c-9ddb-11e5-97df-cb2752e1aa7b.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Franklin County man who hanged a dummy in his front yard to intimidate his black neighbors gets six months in jail. The &#8220;Black nigger lives don&#8217;t matter. Got Rope?&#8221; sign that he put in his yard when he was out of jail on bond didn&#8217;t help his case one bit.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovanow.com\/index.php?\/news\/article\/did_police_mislead_investigators_about_deadly_hospital_tasing\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Linwood Lambert wrongful death lawsuit against the South Boston Police Department continues looking worse on the police department and the officers.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefranklinnewspost.com\/news\/harvester-ahead-of-schedule-for-profitability\/article_aba00a74-a990-11e5-9a5c-ff47097e549c.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Harvester Performance Center proves that you can make a profit booking high-quality talent to a small arena. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/news\/budget-lacks-funds-for-medical-school\/article_46aa9a6c-ac4c-11e5-be6a-735f234af288.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t bet on that Martinsville medical school to open in the next 10 years (at least).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesvirginian.com\/news\/article_5214e06a-a35a-11e5-a40c-1b424deb5dab.html\" target=\"_blank\">The property from Appomattox County&#8217;s Lindenburg (which coincidentally rhymes with Hindenburg) Job Bust sells for $1,000,000 at foreclosure.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southhillenterprise.com\/news\/article_1efe424a-a402-11e5-b070-8b003768ce32.html\" target=\"_blank\">South Hill&#8217;s YMCA is closing due to back taxes and bad money management.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/news\/article_4b7c5312-a406-11e5-8e40-0313e61b165b.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Pittsylvania County teacher in the &#8220;sexting with a student&#8221; case checks himself in for psychiatric care.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunionstar.com\/news\/article_bd63f7a8-a8e5-11e5-8530-5bd7be1faa7b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brookneal&#8217;s police department came very close to averaging two calls for service per day in November. 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