HERNDON Fairfax County police say four barnyard animals were attacked overnight at a Herndon area farm park. Police say farm staff at Kidwell Barn at Frying Pan Farm Park discovered Sunday morning that two goats, a calf and a chicken had been cut by an unknown object, but the injuries do not appear to be life-threatening. The attack would have happened sometime after 5 p.m. Saturday.

VIRGINIA BEACH Approximately 150,000 people are expected to gaze skyward from the Oceanfront this Friday through Sunday as the Navy's Blue Angels zip overhead. The event means big plans for public safety officials tasked with making sure air, land and water remain safe during the Virginia Beach Patriotic Festival and other events under the banner of OpSail 2012 Virginia.

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Police surrounded an apartment building searching for a man who robbed a business in the 9500 block of First View St. on Sunday, but came up empty.

FARMVILLE A violent felon who was accidently freed from a regional jail in Farmville is the focus of a manhunt. The Progress-Index (http://bit.ly/LmZA01) of Petersburg reports that 31-year-old Carter Sherrod Tillery was serving a 30-year federal sentence in a high-security federal prison in West Virginia for robbing a Petersburg merchant with a sawed-off shotgun in 2009.

GREENSBORO, N.C. Jurors in the John Edwards campaign fraud trial have the long holiday weekend to think over the case — but not talk about it — as the judge sternly warned before sending them home after six days of deliberations.

SUFFOLK The city has begun seizing rent payments and is exploring other means to recoup nearly $350,000 in delinquent taxes owed by two real estate developers charged in a federal tax-fraud case.

PORTSMOUTH The city's police chief and the top prosecutor are calling on Sheriff Bill Watson to restrict more inmates from work programs and beef up supervision after a prisoner's escape from a lawn crew Wednesday. Watson responded that the complaint from Commonwealth's Attorney Earle C. Mobley and Chief Ed Hargis is politically motivated.

NORFOLK A former Florida police officer will serve five years in prison for a sexual assault that occurred in September 2005 while he was in the Navy. Steven Binsse, 28, is one of four men charged in connection with the assault of a woman at the Navy Lodge on Hampton Boulevard. They were arrested after film of the assault was turned over to police.

CHARLOTTESVILLE A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend is appealing his conviction.

GREENSBORO, N.C. The judge in the John Edwards trial abruptly closed the courtroom Friday to talk to attorneys about an issue with a juror and sent the panel home after six days of deliberations with a stern warning not to talk about the case.