The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is advising individuals in need of disaster assistance to contact your insurance agent before you register with FEMA for help. Although it is not a requirement to contact your insurance agent first, it may speed up the assistance process. [more]
The extended deadline is July 28, 2008, for returns and payments due after May 24, 2008, and before June 26, 2008.
Affected taxpayers will not be subject to any penalty for failing to file or pay. In addition, interest will not be due on payments made by July 28, 2008 [more]
Always a Marine By JUSTIN HILL, HAMPTON CHRONICLE
It was cold and gray and softly raining when Lance Corporal Cody Wanken finally came home to Hampton Tuesday, April 8. Still colder, with a temperature in the upper 30s, nearly 20 degrees below average, and gray and rain blowing in sheets when he was laid to rest two days later.
It was the polar opposite of Cody’s personality, the irony of it not lost in the sorrow.
“Yeah,” Brian Sutter, as close to the Wanken family as one could be without carrying the name, said with a grin, “he’s laughing at us.” [more]
