North Tazewell News

TAZEWELL, Va. - Several Tazewell County elementary schools could be air-conditioned as early as next month.

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Canoy of Shelby and David and Becky Ritter of North Tazewell, Va., announce the engagement of their children, Jill Marie Ritter and Robert William Canoy Jr.

Two North Tazewell people are in custody after a chase that ended in McDowell County.

As utility companies continue to ask for rate increases, consumers look for ways to cut back as higher costs increase the strains on their household budgets.

TAZEWELL, Va. - A 2-year-old child has died as a result of an automobile accident in Tazewell County, police said Monday.

A 16-year-old driver was killed in a crash yesterday in Essex County. Police said Justin Bevan Erwin of Dunnsville was driving a pickup truck east on state Route 611, 1 mile west of U.S. 17, when the vehicle ...

A man died late Thursday following a single-vehicle accident in Tazewell County.

From the Angry Teachers Drunk With Power files, we bring you the story of a boy, his rather long bangs and a pair of scissors.

From the Angry Teachers Drunk With Power files, we bring you the story of a boy, his rather long bangs and a pair of scissors. According to 11-year-old Alexander Allen Brown, his teacher at Hidden Valley Middle School in Roanoke, Virginia had a problem with his haircut. Or, rather, his lack of haircut. Alexander says that one day last September, his teacher stopped him in the hall, pinned him to his locker, and "growled" about his hair. Alexander's mother, Dominique Brown, says that at first her son wasn't bothered by the incident. "However, it grew within him and made him enormously self-conscious and was disturbing him emotionally," she said in a lawsuit filed against the Roanoke County School Board. Apparently, the teacher couldn't let it go, either. According to the suit, the very next day the teacher brought Alexander up to the front of the class and, despite his protests and struggles, forcibly cut his bangs "in such a manner that she utterly and completely butchered his hair and his appearance." Since the forced haircut, Alexander's mom says her son's grades have suffered as he has become depressed and withdrawn. In suing the school board, the family is seeking $1,000 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages. "You know how kids are at 11 years old. There are two things in his life: his hair and the shoes he's got on," said the family's attorney, Harvey Lutins. "We're talking about individual rights," Lutins said. "I don't want my kids touched that way. It's an invasion of privacy. It's an assault. It's a civil assault upon that child." I absolutely agree and if this teacher did was she is accused of doing, she deserves to lose her job.