{"id":17758,"date":"2016-03-27T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=17758"},"modified":"2016-03-27T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:58:16","slug":"quickhits-32716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/27\/quickhits-32716\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickHits! (3\/27\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at some of the stories that have caught my eye over the past week. Sunday is QuickHits! day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And here comes the Big Board right on schedule&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesvirginian.com\/news\/article_d1b20dda-f0f7-11e5-ac61-93b47ed8763b.html\" target=\"_blank\">A private citizen donates $3500 to the town of Pamplin and saves them from defaulting on their loan payments. Seriously.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovanow.com\/index.php?\/news\/article\/18-year-old_charged_in_assault_of_bluestone_student\/\" target=\"_blank\">An 18-year-old Bluestone High School students picks up a felony charge for punching out another student that had to be airlifted to a Richmond hospital.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesvirginian.com\/news\/article_ee41d1ec-f0f7-11e5-9ae0-b3950de7d0b1.html\" target=\"_blank\">An Appomattox County man takes a plea deal of at most 15 years for shooting &amp; killing his mother.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/news\/del-matt-fariss-pleads-guilty-to-misdemeanor-hit-and-run\/article_5965e796-1a89-521c-8715-0a77758851e3.html\" target=\"_blank\">House of Delegates member Matt Fariss pleads guilty to misdemeanor hit-and-run.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefranklinnewspost.com\/news\/webb-mountain-brush-fire-grows-to-acres\/article_6623e4fe-f1e6-11e5-b575-eb9f6394b858.html\" target=\"_blank\">Backyard brush burning gets out of control and the resulting fire expanded to 150 acres in Franklin County.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theenterprise.net\/2016\/03\/11\/rebuilding-of-bridge-supported-by-board\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Patrick County Board of Supervisors endorses rebuilding the Bob White Covered Bridge that was destroyed in September floods (as long as it&#8217;s rebuilt with private funds).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovanow.com\/index.php?\/news\/article\/naacp_new_prosecutor_should_take_police_probe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Chandler, the president of the Halifax County\/South Boston NAACP continues to blast away against Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Tracy Martin (with his usual zero results).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/news\/local-officials-warn-against-smoking-near-oxygen-tanks\/article_d914e77a-f16d-11e5-95e5-074740d38653.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patients shouldn&#8217;t smoke while using oxygen tanks. This has to be the &#8220;slow news week&#8221; story of the year, folks.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greensboro.com\/news\/unlicensed-teen-driver-hits-graham-house-charged-in-series-of\/article_143fe16c-c7bf-5961-be3d-3d1e162da789.html\" target=\"_blank\">So you crash into the rear-end of a mail truck. Then you run a stop sign and crash into a jeep. You then finish your driving day by running into a house. Tada!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And with that crashing story, we&#8217;ll freeze at nine Sunday reading assignments for you. We&#8217;ve got more coming soon here on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/HdKuMCl.jpg?resize=376%2C211\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at some of the stories that have caught my eye over the past week. 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(12\/28\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"December 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's take a look around the internet and see some stories that have caught my eye. It's QuickHits! time. Get that Big Board ready! Let's hear it for the Rocky Mount Police Department! The bizarre South Boston YMCA board of directors \"rents\" a CEO. It's not Marcus Hargrave. He's still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;QuickHits!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"QuickHits!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/quickhits\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/HdKuMCl.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11634,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/21\/quickhits-12212014\/","url_meta":{"origin":17758,"position":1},"title":"QuickHits! (12\/21\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"December 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Sunday! That means it's time for some QuickHits... stories that have caught my eye over the past week. Let's put them on a Big Board... \"If new chief of schools succeeds, we all win\" - Thank you, Captain Obvious. A horse is a horse, of course of course... unless\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;QuickHits!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"QuickHits!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/quickhits\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/HdKuMCl.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12717,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/17\/quickhits-51715\/","url_meta":{"origin":17758,"position":2},"title":"QuickHits! (5\/17\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"May 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday is the famous QuickHits! day on SouthsideCentral. Let's take a look at some stories that have caught my eye this past week. If there are QuickHits!, there's a Big Board! Remain calm. All is well. The bear foot found in Martinsville has been conclusively determined to be a bear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;QuickHits!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"QuickHits!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/quickhits\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/HdKuMCl.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13430,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/19\/quickhits-71915\/","url_meta":{"origin":17758,"position":3},"title":"QuickHits! (7\/19\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I find them, you read them. Let's take a look at some of the stories that have caught my eye over the past week. Sunday is QuickHits! day. Please notice a Big Board coming out from backstage... 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