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U.S. Repeating Arms Announces Plans To Close Winchester Plant 3:23 PM EST, January 17, 2006 Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- U.S. Repeating Arms said Tuesday it will close its Winchester firearm factory, threatening the future of a rifle that pioneers toted into the Wild West and John Wayne hoisted onto the big screen. "It's part of who we are as a nation just like it's part of who we are as a city. It's the gun that won the West," Mayor John DeStefano said. "What are we going to have, Winchester rifles manufactured in China? Is this what we're...

Winchester Rifle Plant Prepares to Close Tuesday January 17, 4:37 pm ET By Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writer U.S. Repeating Arms to Close Its Winchester Firearm Factory in Connecticut NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- U.S. Repeating Arms Co. Inc. said Tuesday it will close its Winchester firearm factory, threatening the future of a rifle that was once called "The Gun that Won the West." "It's part of who we are as a nation just like it's part of who we are as a city," Mayor John DeStefano said. The announcement touched off a lobbying effort by city officials and union...

Kilgore: Potts’s Candidacy Won’t Distract GOP Voters Local Support Is Clear During Stop at Airport By Michael N. Graff The Winchester Star -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Former attorney general Jerry W. Kilgore stood in Winchester Regional Airport’s lobby on Thursday afternoon — essentially on state Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr.’s front porch — and listened as Winchester-area Republicans whooped and hollered in support of his gubernatorial candidacy. There was a time many in the crowd would have done the same for Potts. But after Potts strayed from the party ranks last month and announced that he would oppose Kilgore as an independent candidate...

Winchester continues its reputation as a wedding mecca in Virginia. Linda Tripp, who caught the nation's attention during the Monica Lewinsky episode of President Clinton’s second term, came to the Winchester Circuit Clerk’s office to obtain a marriage license Dec. 30. “I asked her if she was THE Linda Tripp and she said yes,” reported Will Gardner, deputy clerk of the court. “I was curious about how many people could have that name,” Gardner said. He didn’t recognize her physically but did remember the name when he was typing up the license. Gardner said she seemed a little anxious once...

Confederate Flag Controversy Returns WINCHESTER, VA- A British politician is calling a symbol in the NBC25 viewing area racist. He`s a councilman in Winchester, England and he`s taking issue with the symbol of Winchester, Virginia. The councilman has an issue specifically with the Confederate Flag in the corner. But Winchester, Virginia residents like Jenae Finley don`t seem too worried. "Every couple of years a controversy comes up over the Confederate flag, and it will be a big ruckus about it, until another reason comes up and it will die out again, but nothing ever has been done about it," explained...

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION 11250 WAPLES MILL ROAD FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA 22030-7400 ______________________________________________________________________________FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: For More Information: August 16 , 2002 (703) 267-3820 Vote for Vernon Robinson ¨C the NRA PVF Endorsed Candidate FAIRFAX, VA -- In recent radio spots, mailings and on her website, Virginia Foxx incorrectly states she is the National Rifle Association (NRA) endorsed candidate in North Carolina¡¯s 5th District Congressional race. The truth is the NRA PVF has endorsed Vernon Robinson for the 5th District. Robinson, the son of a Tuskegee Airman and nurse, graduated from the U.S....

Speakers Assail 'Political Correctness' and Explain What Thousands of Soldiers Fought For Sometime around dusk Sunday, people wandered among the plain, age-stained tombstones of Confederate soldiers in Winchester's Stonewall Cemetery.They read from the slates, sending names and dates of births, deaths, and battles fought into the twilight. Most only spoke loud enough for themselves and perhaps one or two nearby to hear.Members of the 33rd Virginia Company D Honor Guard (above) participate in the 138th annual Confederate Memorial Day Service at Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester Sunday. Emma MacBeth, 7, of Stephens City (below) reads the tombstones of Confederate dead...

WASHINGTON, May 28 - With the United States fighting protracted wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, its military faces a shortage of a basic necessity: ammunition. The Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Ill., held an "industry day'' last week to inform contractors of a vast increase in demand for small-caliber rounds, those for rifles and machine guns. Maj. Gary Tallman, an Army spokesman, said the armed services needed 300 million to 500 million rounds this year alone, beyond the 1.2 billion already being produced, to provide enough for a military whose active-duty force had increased because of the...

<p>The world's oldest and now most controversial sport -- big-game hunting -- could be transformed into a provocative quest acceptable to most anyone if a new sport were created: catch-and-release hunting.</p> <p>Imagine the thrill of tracking, spotting, stalking and hunting the world's greatest game animals at close range in Africa -- lion, Cape buffalo, leopard, elephant and rhinoceros -- without killing any of them.</p>

Although the Civil War is a topic of deep interest to many, it remains the source of heated debates within the American culture. Gary Gallagher, a professor of the history of the Civil War at the University of Virginia, told those who attended his lecture Wednesday that the Civil War remains divisive because Americans continue to struggle with different theories and interpretations of its central issues. About 50 people attended Gallagher's lecture, held at the Old Town Events Center on Loudoun Street in Winchester."I'm probably going to say something that will offend almost everybody in here at different points," Gallagher...

<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) yesterday introduced a new, Internet-accessible system that will allow state, local and other federal law-enforcement agencies to share information about bomb and arson cases and related incidents.</p> <p>ATF spokesman Andrew L. Lluberes said the Bomb and Arson Tracking System (BATS) will serve as a library that law-enforcement agencies can use to manage and exchange information. It was developed by the agency's Arson and Explosives National Repository, which Congress entrusted with maintaining all national information on explosives incidents and arson.</p>

High school diplomas misspelled June 10, 2003 7:35 AM The Associated Press Winchester, Virginia-AP -- Critics might say schools should pay more attention to spelling. At least on the diplomas. The diplomas handed out at a Virginia high school Friday night misspelled the name of the school. The "r" in Sherando High School was replaced with an "m," suggesting the students had graduated from "Shemando High School." School officials say the error is being corrected and new diplomas will be sent to all graduates.

Attack may backfire… motivate conservative turnout for Mark Tate on Tue, Jun 10th. (From an email on the Richmond Times/AP story)..... (6-1-03. AP) Sounding a combative, occasionally bitter tone in a June 1st Richmond Times Dispatch article, Sen. Russ Potts pledges, if reelected, to submit a bill to mandate public school SOL tests for home schoolers. Potts says he is conservatives’ “worst nightmare.” In a move sure to ignite howls of protests and questions about his ethics, Potts invites Democrats to vote in the Republican primary to save him. Potts calls conservatives “Johnnies-come- lately…obsessed with abortion.” He acknowledges Mark Tate...

Winchester, Va -- A man trying to beat his dog to death with a gun was fatally wounded when the weapon apparently went off accidentally, police said. Raymond Poore Jr., 43, called his wife Debbie at work Thursday and told her their dog had bitten him and he intended to kill the animal, police Capt. David Sobonya said. The wife came home about 6 p.m. and found her husband unconscious, with a number of dog bites and scratches. Emergency medical personnel discovered that Poore had been shot. He was pronounced dead at Winchester Medical Center. Sobonya said Poore must have...

<p>WASHINGTON - Debbie Poore told police her husband of three weeks called her at work about 6 p.m. Thursday to say that their dog, a 2-year-old Chinese Shar-Pei, had bitten him on the hand - and that he was going to kill it.</p>

Man Fatally Shot While Beating Dog With Shotgun Police: Weapon Must Have Discharged As Man Beat His Shar-Pei WINCHESTER, Va. -- A man was shot fatally while trying to beat his dog to death with a shotgun, Winchester police said. Police say the man called his wife at work Thursday and told her that their dog had bitten him and he intended to kill it. Police say the wife Raymond Poore Jr. found him covered with dog bites and suffering from a shotgun wound to his abdomen. He died later at Winchester Medical Center. Police say the shotgun must have...