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Wegmans To Get Rid of Plastic Bags By End Of The Year Wegmans To Get Rid of Plastic Bags By End Of The Year
Wegmans To Get Rid of Plastic Bags By End Of The Year Customers will soon no longer be able to get single-use plastic bags at Wegmans stores in Virginia, the company announced this week.  The grocery chain said stores in Leesburg, Dulles, Potomac, Lake Manassas, Virginia Beach, and Charlottesville would stop using the bags beginning on July 1. Wegmans in Fairfax and Richmond counties have already phased out single-use plastic bags.  Customers can purchase paper bags for 5 cents each or bring reusable bags for their groceries. The company said it would donate any money generated from the sale of paper bags to local food banks, the com…

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by Josh Lanier
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Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To Cold Case Killings, Including Massachusetts Woman Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To Cold Case Killings, Including Massachusetts Woman
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To Cold Case Killings, Including Massachusetts Woman A man sentenced to life in prison after strangling a single mother has been linked to two cold-case killings, including of a Massachusetts woman, according to police. Charles Helem, 52, is serving life in prison at a supermax state prison for the 2002 murder of Patricia Bentley, a 37-year-old single mother from Chantilly, Virginia. He strangled Bentley with a phone cord and his hands, according to officials. This week, Helem was indicted for murder by a Fairfax County grand jury in the 1987 murder of another woman and is also suspected of killing a third woman in Prince George's County in 2…

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by Joe Gomez