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VDH on Trump order on MMR vaccines: He doesn’t know what he’s talking about
The Virginia Department of Health is telling us to go ahead and ignore Donald Trump on MMR vaccines, because he doesn’t know anything.
ACC Basketball: UNC alum Seth Trimble taking ‘extra year’ to Louisville
UNC Basketball alum Seth Trimble, who played in the NBA Summer League last month, and has seen that the market for his services at the next level isn’t there, will try his hand at going back to college for another year, but not at UNC.
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Waynesboro man faces multiple child sex charges in Orange County
A Waynesboro man was indicted last month by an Orange County grand jury on multiple child sex crimes.
Arlington County authorities investigating death of inmate at local jail
Arlington County authorities are investigating the death of an inmate at the Arlington County Detention Facility on Monday.
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Trump leaves press, staffers, military on Air Force One to die so he can fly in peace
We shouldn’t have a problem with getting the President of the United States the hell out of harm’s way if there was a credible threat to his life via a threat to shoot down Air Force One.
Spanberger team taking credit for tourism growth that happened on Youngkin’s watch
Tourism-related spending in Virginia has increased 3.1 percent, according to a release from the office of Gov. Abigail Spanberger, which, oddly, didn’t specify the time frame for the increase.
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We never got Sting-Undertaker: What other wrestling matches were we robbed of?
The item from last week about The Undertaker saying that Vince McMahon was the reason we didn’t get the all-time dream match pitting Sting and ‘Taker got me to thinking on the topic of, dream matches that we never got, for various and sundry reasons.
The clock is ticking on UVA, North Carolina getting SEC invites
Texas and Oklahoma were announced as pending members of the SEC in the summer of 2021, though the announcement at the time had them set to join the league three years later, in 2024.
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Waynesboro citizens group prepared for fight with city over Mimosa Farm
Residents in the Alphin Avenue/Hopeman Station/Charleston Park area already impacted by the event business that grew up illegally in their neighborhood are readying themselves for a fight with the City of Waynesboro.
SCC chair, heading up NextEra-Dominion merger review, is a former NextEra attorney
The Virginia State Corporation Commission is in charge of the review of the proposed $67 billion NextEra Energy-Dominion Energy merger. The chair of the SCC, Kelsey A. Bagot, was a senior attorney at NextEra Energy before her appointment in 2024.
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