CHARLOTTESVILLE — A jury says a former University of Virginia lacrosse player should serve 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend.

DALLAS (AP) — The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold for about $3.5 million.

Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, says Billy Wright's 1939 copy of Detective Comics No. 27 that features the debut of Batman got the top bid at the New York City auction Wednesday. It sold for about $523,000, including a buyer's premium.

With legislation to deter scrap metal thefts likely a year away, the Henry County Sheriff’s Office has decided to require certain metal sellers to get licenses and be accountable for their sales.

Henry County Sheriff Lane Perry said existing state law allows him to require people to get a license if they sell 600 pounds or more locally, and/or make more than 26 trips per year to local scrap metal dealers.

Authorities will charge those meeting that criteria $50 a year for the license, Perry said.

Construction on the Garden Club of Virginia’s landscape project at the former Henry County courthouse should begin “as soon as weather permits,” said landscape architect Will Rieley, who created the design.

Rieley talked about the project during a joint meeting of the Martinsville Garden Club and the Garden Study Club on Tuesday morning at the former courthouse.