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According to the Virginia Department of Game adn Inland Fisheries webiste, the eastern cottontail is solitary and very territorial. It is mostly nocturnal, but it sometimes Tarcy, 31, who went to Virginia Tech and now lives in Charlotte, said he and Alvis first experienced marathon-style golf when they played 64 holes together six years ago. He said they'd always wanted to see if they could push it further. Palmer said since the charity's founder, Don Fraser, was a friend, they figured they might as well support his cause with the exercise, which he calculated using a FitBit to be 29.9 miles and more than 7,000 calories worth of walking. "It's like walking to Roanoke from Blacksburg," Palmer said.
The group aimed to begin Tuesday's trek at 6 a.m., but was delayed slightly due to the soggy course. By 1 p.m., they were well into their third round and believed they'd have no problem finishing so long as they didn't run into too many other golfers or storms. The latter issue became the group's downfall and it's what Palmer believed kept them from hitting their mark of 90 holes in a single day. "Without the rain we would have got it," he said. will come out in the early morning and at dusk and sometimes during the day if it's dark with clouds or fog.
For more information visit http://www.dgif.virginia.gov GOLF FROM 1 FROM Photos by MATT GENTRY The Roanoke Times Scott Tarcy (from top left), Derek Alvis and Brian Palmer push their clubs up a hill Tuesday. Palmer calculated using a FitBit that participants in the event covered 29.9 miles and burned more than 7,000 calories. Scott Tarcy keeps score under the midday sun Tuesday. Before rain halted play around 8:45 p.m., the trio had tallied 78 holes of golf during a 14-hour period, bringing them just shy of the 90-hole day they hoped to use as a fundraiser to benefit people suffering from multiple sclerosis. Scott Tarcy celebrates making a putt Tuesday.
INDICTMENTS with a felony charge of forging public records. Lamar is also scheduled to appear in court on July 28 for a FROM 1 plea. James Felton Hogan and Nicole Rose Lamar. Hogan, 28, Walter Ray Royal, 61. He is was charged after facing two felony an incident that hit-and-run chargincluded a late- es.
On Jan. 16, Royal night manhunt on allegedly struck a Feb. 5 after Blacks- woman driving a burg police say a moped on North man identified as Franklin Street in the Alabama native Christiansburg. Folfled from Virginia lowing that incident, State Police during a James Hogan Royal was charged routine traffic stop. with hit-and-run Walter Royal The vehicle, which and was released on police determined a $1,000 secured bond.
to be stolen, fled However, less than two weeks toward Toms Creek later, Royal was involved in another Road and eventually hit-and-run on Cambria Street in crashed in the 3500 Christiansburg. block of Meadow- According to police, a vehicle brook Drive. Hogan entered a lane of traffic on Cambria was charged with Street around 8:15 p.m and struck felony eluding after Nicole Rose another vehicle. the incident. He is Lamar The driver of the vehicle that scheduled to appear investigators suspect caused the in court on July 28 for a plea.
crash then fled. The vehicle that Lamar, 28, was Hogan's pas- fled the scene was later identified senger during the Feb. 5 incident, as a rental car, and Royal's name based on a police investigation. was the only name listed on the When she was arrested, Lamar rental agreement, according to the provided police with her sister's police news release. driver's license, according to the Royal is scheduled to appear in investigation.
Lamar is charged court on Sept. 2 for a plea. MANSLAUGHTER titt. He was sentenced to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine on a charge of driving FROM 1 on a suspended license (third released several hours later, or subsequent charge); 12 according to Montgomery months in jail and a $2,500 County Commonwealth's fee for altering or forging a Attorney Mary Pettitt. license plate and a $250 fee Pettitt said the involuntary for driving uninsured.
manslaughter charge will be Novotny was originally presented to a grand jury in charged with driving under October. The charge is a class the influence and failure to 5 felony and carries with it a wear a seat belt, but prosecusentence of at least one year tors dropped those charges and up to 10 years in prison. citing a lack of evidence, PetNovotny was also convict- titt said. ed and sentenced Wednesday According to Pettitt, all of in Montgomery County Gen- those convictions have been eral District Court on three appealed to circuit court. additional misdemeanor Novotny is being held charges that stemmed from without bond at the Western the wreck, according to Pet- Virginia Regional Jail.
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