Earlier this month, an ex-boyfriend held Sammi Jo Burkhart hostage for several hours and then shot her to death when she tried to flee, court documents say. The ex, Mark O'Leary, is now charged with killing her. Records filed in courthouses across Hampton Roads show O'Leary had a history of harming and threatening to harm women, and Burkhart's family believes the system failed to protect her. Just months before Burkhart was killed, O'Leary was charged with assaulting her in Virginia Beach. A magistrate let him out on bond, and weeks later, Burkhart was dead.
Read more in this Sunday's Main News section. Looking at some Confederate officers, with tributes ( names on schools and infrastructure) in their honor, who fought hard to keep slavery, but post-Civil War helped Virginia Blacks advance and so fall in the middle on a spectrum of staunch segregationist. Two examples come to mind: Gen. William Taliaferro, a plantation owner who fought along with Stonewall Jackson. He has a residence hall named for him at W&M and help fund and educate T.C. Walker, a man born a slave, who became Gloucester's first Black lawyer. Another segregationist, William Mahone, led Confederate troops into battle during the Civil War against Black Union troops during a bloody massacre. Post war, he led a bi-racial coalition under the Readjuster Party in Virginia that help shrink the state's debt and fund education and create jobs, which also helped Blacks. Mahone has all but been erased from Virginia history books because he was seen as a threat to by whites. During an age where tributes of any kind to segregationist are toppling everywhere, Taliaferro and Mahone leave murky legacies. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section.
Printed in big, bold letters on the sides of Premium-PPE's newest boxes is the companyâs plea â to the government, to health care industries, to consumers: âPick American.â The Virginia Beach-based company was among those to shift to mask-making less than a year ago at the pandemic's start. Now, it's hoping to stay in that business so long as public policy can be changed to encourage American-made masks take priority over Chinese-made ones.
Read more in this Sunday's Main News section.
The oldest African-American oyster community in Hampton Roads is still alive in Hobson. Read more in the Sunday Break section. The Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University has a trio of prized dolls by folk artist Leo Moss. Read more in the Sunday Break section.
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