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Former South Boston finance director Vandie Saunders was killed on Sunday afternoon in a farming accident. Saunders (62) was apparently operating a piece of farm machinery when the accident occurred. We’ll have more details on this breaking news story as we get information.<\/p>\n
Update #1<\/strong>: Saunders’ tractor accidentally went into gear and dragged a bushhog over him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our sources have just got this story in to SouthsideCentral.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,63,36,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-halifax-county","category-south-boston","category-updated","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-1M8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10826,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/28\/breaking-vault-door-falls-on-woman\/","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":0},"title":"UPDATED: Vault door falls on woman","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: Sadly, the victim has died. 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