Alleged Fight Leads to Three Felony Charges
By Megan Williams, The BreezeSeptember 24, 2009
Three JMU students have been charged with felonious assault and malicious wounding by mob after allegedly attacking another individual in a parking lot on Port Republic Road last Friday. Junior Markus W. Hunter, 20, from High Point, N.C., Connor J. Long, 19, and Colin Fitz-Maurice, 20, from Newtown, Penn., were arrested shortly after leaving the Liberty gas station around 11 p.m., Sept. 18, following the alleged assault. The victim, whose name was not released because of police policy, allegedly... Read more »
The Pub Faces $1,750 in Fines
By Megan Williams, The BreezeSeptember 21, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — After being charged in June with five alcohol-related violations, The Pub will not have to close its doors for any period of time, according to the Wednesday announcement by the Alcohol Beverage Control Board. Robert O’Neal, chief administrative hearing officer for ABC, dismissed three of the more serious charges, upholding two, which will result in a $1,750 fine for The Pub or a 17-day suspension of its liquor license. Bill Royer, co-owner of the popular bar located off Neff... Read more »
Hit-and-Run Trial Delayed
By Megan Williams, The BreezeSeptember 17, 2009
The three-day trial for the former bartender of The Pub has been postponed from Tuesday to Jan. 11. Bethany Baker Jones is charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony hit-and-run. The charges are in conjunction with a Jan. 6 incident, where Jones allegedly struck jogger Sherry Anderson, a JMU employee. Jones was leaving work in the early morning hours and allegedly hit Anderson on South Main Street near Port Republic Road. She is also now being charged with misdemeanor reckless driving and misdemeanor... Read more »
Three Students Arrested After Party Fight
By Megan Williams, The BreezeSeptember 14, 2009
The victims of an off-campus fight sought warrants for the arrest of three JMU students for alleged assault or battery by a mob. At 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 6 attendees of a party on Snowberry Lane in Copper Beech began spilling out of the building into the front yard, according to Mary-Hope Gangwer, spokeswoman for Harrisonburg Police. A large fight allegedly broke out involving a dozen or more people. Four people were reported injured, although there could be more that have not yet reported injury,... Read more »
One Texting Ticket So Far in Harrisonburg
By Megan Williams, The BreezeSeptember 10, 2009
While driving, freshman Chad Henderson occasionally finds himself steering with his knee. “I know it’s dangerous,” Henderson said. But like many students, he sends text messages while driving. For Henderson, this is made more difficult by the fact that he drives a manual car. “I try not to text as much as possible.” Texting while driving has been illegal in Virginia for a little more than two months now. On July 1, Virginia became one of 19 states to penalize drivers for this distracting... Read more »
Health Care Debate Hits Harrisonburg
By Megan Williams, The BreezeSeptember 8, 2009
What was meant to be a conversation about health care between Congressman Bob Goodlatte and Rockingham County residents on Saturday quickly split into an argument over partisan politics. The two-hour town hall meeting at Turner Ashby High School in Bridgewater turned into booing, heckling and name-calling, and snide remarks from the audience challenged the question-and-answer session. The meeting was one of three the Republican congressman is hosting across his district, which includes Lynchburg,... Read more »
Two Strikes, You’re Out?
By Megan Williams, The BreezeSeptember 3, 2009
New Judicial Policy to Punish Providing Alcohol To Underaged Students When senior Megan Hopkins throws a party she doesn’t consider carding people at the door. “That is so unrealistic,” the 21-year-old said of checking an ID before admitting someone into an off-campus party. “You can’t control what everyone does. You’re not their mother.” But this is what Judicial Affairs is suggesting legal-aged students do to ensure they aren’t serving alcohol to people under the age of 21. A... Read more »
Squatting, Stepping Off Could Mean Steep Fines
By Megan Williams, The BreezeAugust 31, 2009
Additional Officers Assigned to Patrol Parties, Monitor Drinking as Student Partying Resumes The difference between standing on the sidewalk and standing in the road is just a few inches. But add a cup of alcohol and the difference can be up to $250 and an open container ticket. Junior Cora Swider was one of the many students to learn the difference. Last weekend 335 people in Harrisonburg received alcohol violations, 121 of them were for having an open container of alcohol. Swider, 19, hadn’t... Read more »
Candidate Battles Gang Issue
By Megan Williams, The BreezeAugust 31, 2009
Dem. Steve Shannon Addresses Harrisonburg Residents Downtown HARRISONBURG, Va. — Three violent crimes were committed in Virginia during the 15 minutes that Steve Shannon spoke downtown at Old Dominion Coffee on Saturday. That’s why, the Democrat said, he was running for attorney general. He wants to change that statistic. The Fairfax delegate and former prosecutor spoke to Harrisonburg locals and students about gang violence in Virginia and how he would combat it if elected in November. “Every... Read more »
An Interstate Intrusion
By Megan Williams, The BreezeAugust 27, 2009
J.P. Gorski arrived at his new dorm room in Rockingham Hall to find it a bit different from those of his neighbors’. He had new carpet, new furniture and a new air-conditioning unit. A month ago, though, the difference between his room and others would have been a lot more noticeable. There is no sign of where a tractor-trailer crashed into Rockingham Hall on Aug. 1. The chain-link fence bordering Interstate 81, on which the big rig was traveling, is now restored; and approximately $50,000... Read more »
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