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    A lawsuit over a Virginia prison inmate's death has raised broader questions about conditions at the lockup and newly obtained records are providing further insights. The Marion Correctional Treatment Center houses predominantly mentally ill offenders. Records obtained by The Associated Press show inmates there were hospitalized for hypothermia at least 13 times in three years. They also show medical providers expressed concern about temperatures and one inmate described ice forming on toilet water. In the pending lawsuit, a judge has paved the way for further discovery over records relating to hypothermia and cold exposure. The Department of Corrections has refused to comment on the AP's findings, citing the pending litigation.

      The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest has crowned a grand prize winner after hundreds of dedicated pitmasters sweated through smoke to be named the best in pork. Brad Orrison and Brooke Lewis, a brother and sister who led a team from Mississippi, won the grand championship on Saturday, the third time they have cooked their way to the big prize. Considered one of the premiere cooking contests in the U.S., teams from around the country and internationally spend days working on huge whole hogs, massive slabs of shoulder and cuts of ribs in the heat and sometimes rain of Memphis, Tennessee. Orrison and Lewis say the “the Super Bowl of Swine” is friendly but fierce.

        Seize the Grey has won the Preakness Stakes for 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. His victory ended Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid. Seize the Grey returned off the same two-week turnaround as Mystik Dan after impressing in a win on the Derby undercard enough to convince Lukas to try the Preakness. Lukas has saddled more horses in the Preakness than anyone else in the race’s 149-year history. He has now won the middle leg of the Triple Crown seven times and is one back of the record held by good friend Bob Baffert. Mystik Dan finished second.

          Scottie Scheffler arrived at the golf course in plenty of time. Once he got there, nothing really worked. A day after he powered through his odyssey to the jailhouse, then back to the course just in time to get to the opening tee box, Scheffler enjoyed a more regular schedule but struggled to keep things together at the PGA Championship. He shot 2-over 73 in the third round to finish at 7 under for the tournament and drop from fourth to a tie for 24th. It snapped a string of 42 straight rounds of par or better.

            Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on a number of GOP presidential campaigns, has died at age 58. That's according to the news network. Police said her body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. Officers believe she suffered a medical episode. No further information about the cause of her death or survivors was available Saturday. Stewart started at CNN just ahead of the 2016 campaign and has served on the communications team of several Republican presidential candidates including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Most recently, she was communications director for Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 campaign.

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            A Wise County man has been charged with malicious wounding and other charges after shooting an individual on Dan Hall Mountain Hall Road.

            A Bristol Tennessee man was arrested Thursday and charged with vehicular homicide and several other charges in connection to a fatal vehicle crash on Highway 394 on Feb. 16, 2024.

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