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🌱 Rocky Mount stepmother receives decades-long sentence in child’s fatal beating

Rocky Mount, Virginia Patch AM: a 4 min read

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  • Rocky Mount stepmother receives decades-long sentence in child’s fatal beating

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Today's riddle: Whatz the difference between Dubai...and Abu Dhabi? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Wednesday: Hot; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 93 and low of 66 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: Cloudy with a few showers, temps: high: 77, low: 54.
  • Friday: Cloudy, a shower and t-storm, with a high of 63 and low of 52 degrees.

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• Rocky Mount woman sentenced in fatal beating of eight-year-old stepson (wfxrtv.com) — A Rocky Mount woman has been sentenced to decades in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the death of her eight-year-old stepson at a Rocky Mount home in 2025. Prosecutors say medical findings showed signs consistent with long-term abuse, and the child’s father also received a prison sentence for child abuse with serious injury.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: In Dubai, the people don't watch the 'Flintstone's'. But people in Abu Dhabi Do! (Thank you Jerri E. for sending it in!)
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