A motorcycle rider was badly injured tonight in a wreck on Riverside Drive.

Officer Mike Caver, Fatal Accident and Crash Team investigator, said witnesses reported the Yukon, driven by Edgar McClennan of Kingsport, was traveling south on Riverside and pulled into the left turning lane.

McClennan waited until the traffic light at the intersection turned red and was pulling into the Rhino Mart parking lot when a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was traveling north on Riverside struck the passenger side of the Yukon, Caver said.

The motorcyclist, whose name has not been released and condition is unknown, was taken by Lifeflight helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

"Some witnesses are saying the motorcyclist ran the light," Caver said. The investigation is ongoing.

It is unknown if alcohol or drugs were involved in the wreck. McClennan was given a toxicology test at the scene and Caver said there was no alcohol or drugs involved on his part. Caver will go to Vanderbilt to get a report on the motorcyclist.

The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet, Caver said.

The girlfriend of the motorcyclist was a passerby and saw the Harley Davidson motorcycle lying crushed in the road. She got out of her vehicle in shock and approached Caver.

The Staunton Police Department is allurement for the public's advice to acquisition a missing teenager.

Seventeen-year-old Matthew Wayne Davis has aphotic albino hair that may be absolute atramentous and generally wears all atramentous clothing. He's five-feet-ten-inches tall.

Davis has several facial piercings, including the lower lip, the high lip and his nose.

Police say he has been missing back the alpha of the month.

Anyone with advice about his abode is asked to alarm the Staunton Police Department at 540-332-3842 or Crime Stoppers at 800-322-2017.

Due to a significant decrease in influenza activity in the area, the Rockingham Memorial Hospital Flu Care Clinic will be closed after Friday.

The clinic will reopen when and if flu activity increases, according to Terri Huffman, director, Primary Care Services.

“Flu activity typically hits in several waves,” explains Huffman. “We are especially concerned about the prevalence of H1N1, which has had two significant peaks in our area this year: one in April and the other in October. At this point we are experiencing less flu activity and seeing fewer patients in both the RMH Emergency Department and in the clinic. But we would expect another peak to hit a bit later in the season and we will reopen the clinic if and when the situation warrants.”

RMH constantly monitors the flu situation both locally and statewide, she said. The Flu Care Clinic phone line will be updated weekly, if not more often, and anyone needing information about whether the clinic is open may call 540-437-0440.

Patient with flu symptoms who are pregnant, under the age of four or have underlying health problems should seek care from their primary care provider or, if that is not possible, at the RMH Emergency Department.

Huffman said the community’s response to public health appeals to use good cough etiquette, practice good hand hygiene and keep healthy and sick people apart has no doubt been instrumental in helping to prevent further spread of the flu.

“The community should be commended for significantly impacting the incidence of influenza by practicing good hygiene and social distancing, staying home from work or school when sick,” says Huffman. “We also appreciate community members complying with our requests to limit hospital visitors for the safety of our staff, patients and other guests. All of these efforts make a huge difference in containing a communicable illness such as influenza.”

Huffman cautioned that people need to continue these practices to prevent the spread of flu. She also emphasized the importance of getting both regular flu and H1N1 immunizations when they are available.

“Complacency is our worst enemy,” says Huffman. “We need to keep our guard up as we head into the holiday season to ensure people stay healthy and avoid the flu.”

The man bedevilled of abducting his wife from the Dairy Queen in Crozet is headed to prison.

Kevin Stone was bedevilled to added than 28 years, but the adjudicator abeyant all but six years and a ages of that sentence.

Stone aswell got two years of probation, and already he gets out the adjudicator ordered him to break abroad from his wife.

Morgan Harrington will have been missing for a month on Sunday. Her parents will not let their daughter's name drop out of the news media.

They appeared on Dr. Phil and tomorrow, their daughter will be featured in PEOPLE Magazine. She will appear among several other young people who have seeminly vanished.

Since Jaycee Dugard was miraculously rescued last August after an 18-year disappearance, it has given new hope to anguished families of hundreds of missing children nationwide.

In a telephone interview, Gil Harrington told the Newsplex, "We realize we're in a marathon. We're trying to be disciplined and strong."

Gil admits this is difficult. She wrote in her blog that appears on FindMorgan.com. "We are becoming a family of skeletons. Morgan, are you a skeleton now too?" Gil says that the entry is to prepare herself for the worst but that it also expresses the agony she feels from not knowing where her daughter is.

While the surfacing of Dugard has given family hope, Gil also says that with the recent trend of missing young girls, she worries for her daughter and for others like her daughter.

Harrington was last seen in Charlottesville on the Copeley Road Bridge after leaving the John Paul Jones Arena during a Metallica concert October 17th. Her purse was found in a grassy RV parking area near JPJ the next day.

The NCMEC’s switchboard has been reignited with tips on long-dormant cases since the news of Dugard’s return was reported, with parents of the missing continuing to chase every lead long after law enforcement teams wind down their searches. They post more flyers; they set up Web sites; they rack their brains for overlooked clues. “It creates a kind of suspended animation for these families,” says NCMEC president Ernie Allen. “It hovers over.'

State badge say a car blow in Rockingham County angry into an attack. It happened forth Silver Basin Road, in Dayton, the night afore Halloween. Badge say a white Toyota Camry hit addition car.

After the accident, as the cars were anchored next to the lake, the woman whose car was hit says the added disciplinarian punched her in the face again collection abroad in the Camry. The doubtable is declared as a man with a baldheaded arch in his backward 20s or aboriginal 30s.

Staunton Badge are investigating a citizen whose dog got out of a backyard and bit a being on Springhill Road. The pit balderdash had already been declared a alarming dog, and was not declared to be abandoned outside.

Augusta County assembly address that a visiting assistant at Dejected Ridge Community College had a laptop stolen. The Virginia Tech assistant was at the Plecker Center for a appointment on Wednesday.

Workers at the Walmart on John Wayland Highway say they bent a man aggravating to abduct a Santa clothing Monday night. The man alone the clothing as advisers chased him out of the store.

A citizen in Maurertown letters that anyone bankrupt into his home, while he was asleep, and blanket a bread jar with about $250 inside. It happened on Back Road Friday night.

State Badge are searching for a baseborn motorcycle. A 2008 dejected Kawasaki was taken from abaft a home on Donnagail Drive in Penn Laird on Halloween.

Thursday night some valley parents got an eye-opening look at new dangers their kids face on-line.

At Stonewall Jackson High School in Shenandoah County, law enforcement pinpointed cyber threats during live video game play, and a rise is "sexting" which carries a felony charge.

Social networking websites continue to pose a threat.
Currently their are more than 180 of them, which gives sex predators more opportunities to meet young kids
Educators say parents must keep up with technology to protect their kids

"We can't stop kids from using the Internet and we shouldn't stop kids from using the Internet. We need to make parents aware of what things to look for", says Stonewall Jackson High School assistant principal, Morgan Saeler

The presentation also shed light on computer trespass, and copyright infringements, which is something that could get both kids and their parents in trouble

The case of a amateur annihilation in Hardy County is affective forward.

Nakia Keller and his wife Lorie Taylor, both of Rockingham County, were arrested for the crimes endure month. Anniversary of them is answerable with one calculation of arson and three counts of murder.

Investigators say they dead Dennis "Chip" Taylor, his new wife Allaina Taylor, and Allaina's five-year-old daughter, Kaylee Grace Whetzel. Board aswell say anniversary of the victims was attempt at atomic already afore their home was set on fire.

Lorie had a basic audition on her accuse Thursday in Moorefield. A court beatific the case to a admirable jury.

During affidavit Thursday, board gave new advice about items bedeviled from Lorie's parents' home.

West Virginia State Police Sgt. Chris Siler says a Beretta 9 mm pistol was taken from her father's house. Siler says the gun was beatific to a lab backward endure anniversary for testing. It's cryptic if it was acclimated to accomplish the crimes.

Lorie's aegis attorney, Deborah Lawson, approved to altercate Thursday, "There is annihilation to absolutely anon tie [Lorie Taylor] to the contest at Chip and Allaina's residence."

Hardy County Deputy Brent Fertig talked about two affairs begin in the adept bedchamber of Lorie's home. Fertig alleged them affairs of activity on how to backpack out the crimes.

Based on affidavit at Thursday's audition and at endure week's audition for Keller, it appears neither plan was agitated out. According to Fertig's testimony, one plan alleged for killing Chip and demography him to Franklin. The plan alleged for his barter to be taken about else.

According to Fertig, a additional plan complex killing Chip and Allaina while their kids were at school.

Lawson argued there was no affirmation that Lorie was present at the time of the murders or that she even assisted.

Hardy County Court Craig A. Hose did not arise convinced. He said the agenda begin in the bedchamber was "written to be plural not singular," implying added than one being was complex in planning the murders.

During testimony, attorneys referred to an concealed "state's witness" who board say took photos of the victims' house.

Investigators say that attestant is a 14-year-old girl.

Last week, a babe with the aforementioned description was referred to as "Jane" and was articular as a third suspect. The Hardy County Sheriff's Office has not accepted if a third arrest has been fabricated in the case.

Keller and Lorie's cases are appointed to go afore a admirable board February 2.