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DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER
Residential Electric Bills to Rise by 4 Percent
Dominion Virginia Power will increase its fuel rate beginning Sunday after receiving approval from the State Corporation Commission. A typical residential customer's average monthly bill for 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity would rise by 4 percent, from $87.18 to $90.59.
The SCC's order, filed Tuesday, allows Dominion to raise its fuel factor to 2.232 cents per kilowatt hour, from 1.891 cents per kilowatt hour. Dominion said the increase is necessary to cover the higher costs of fuel used to generate electricity.
-- Associated Press
LOUDOUN COUNTY
Teacher Faces New Charge Involving Minor
A Herndon Middle School teacher -- arrested in Fairfax County in January on a charge of taking indecent liberties with a 17-year-old girl in his care -- had an additional charge filed against him yesterday in Loudoun County, where he lives.
Richard C. Forsythe, 37, had inappropriate contact in October with the then-16-year-old girl in his home in Sterling, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office alleges. He was charged by Loudoun authorities with custodial indecent liberties with a minor.
Forsythe was arrested in January after an investigation revealed his relationship with the girl, who lives in Reston. No inappropriate contact took place on school property, authorities said.
Forsythe has been suspended from his teaching job at Herndon Middle School without pay since January. He is being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center.
