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Virginia DMV launches anti-distracted driver campaign that it’s calling ‘Open Your Eyes’

Looking at your phone while driving is akin to driving with your eyes closed, is the message of a new driver-safety program from the Virginia DMV, titled “Open Your Eyes.”

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Local/State News

How much are we spending to add an extra lane to I-81 in Staunton?

Remember how I’ve told you that our congressman, Ben Cline, likes to brag about how he was able to convince the Trump administration to sign off on $17 million in new money for I-81 improvements in Virginia?

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Charlottesville: If it smells bad where you live, here would be why

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority has issued an alert to residents in the area of the Moores Creek Advanced Water Resource Recovery Facility regarding potential odor concerns over the next two weeks as infrastructure work takes place in the site’s holding ponds.

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VADOC kept close tabs on sex offenders on Halloween, to keep kids safe

Waynesboro: School Board at critical juncture in search for new superintendent

Developing: Plumber charged in abduction, death of Waynesboro man

Staunton: Justice for Puff and Leroy, two dogs left to die in squalor

UVA Health acquires former State Farms operations center on Pantops

Westwood Hills community honored for heroism during Sept. 2 school shooting

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Politics

Trump does election denial again: ‘Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest’

So, we’re to believe, for example, that Texas, which as of Election Day, run 100 percent by Republicans, allowed its votes to be somehow manipulated to throw the elections there to Democrats.

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Why were there no votes reported from Bedford County in the Sixth District race?

An eagle-eyed reader pointed out to me that Bedford County, population: 83,651, has a voting precinct in the Sixth District, and that the Virginia Department of Elections is reporting that exactly zero votes were cast there in the 2026 election.

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PR firm sends us release touting MAGA’s DEI hire, Harmeet Dhillon

We need to convince Beth Macy to try again in the Sixth District in 2028

Trump names Stephen Miller chief of staff: Bold strategy, Cotton

Don’t misunderstand: 2026 wasn’t about Republicans sitting this one out

Augusta County voters: A resounding ‘no’ on the school construction tax

Waynesboro corrects its 2022 Jim Wood mistake, returns Sam Hostetter to City Council

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Go ‘Hoos

UVA Basketball: Kalu Anya, shaking off the court rust, is a ‘key piece’ in the frontcourt

UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom remembered Kalu Anya from the Jan. 28, 2025, VCU-Saint Louis game, won by the Billikens, 78-69. Anya only shot the ball three times in 29 minutes, but his two points on the night weren’t what Odom remembered about the 6’8” forward’s contribution.

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UVA Football: What is the issue with all the guys on the injury report each week?

We already knew that this Saturday’s UVA Football home game with Cal will kick off in the 3:30 p.m. ET quarter hour. Today we learned that the Nov. 21 home game with North Carolina has a 12:30 p.m. ET quarter hour kickoff.

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UVA Basketball: Inside the numbers from #9 Virginia’s win over #12 Arkansas

UVA Basketball: Win in heavyweight matchup wasn’t one for the birds

Live Coverage: #9 ‘Hoos get early KO of #12 Arkansas in 91-72 win in DC

What I’m hearing about what the UVA Football money people are thinking

Where the mess that UVA Football is seems headed over the next few weeks?

UVA Football: Who gets to decide if Tony Elliott is our guy going forward?

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Sports

College Football Playoff expanding to 24: ACC Championship Game going bye-bye

The College Football Playoff is expanding to 24 teams beginning next season, meaning, among other things, no more ACC Championship Game, which, hey, at least Virginia made it to one ACC title game before it went into mothballs.

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ACC Basketball: Conference expands partnership with RefMasters eval company

You’ll be happy to know the basketball refs that we all assume are out there to screw our favorite team have to answer to somebody.

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Richmond basketball player Jack McCaffery diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma

VCU drops heartbreaker at Memphis on free throws in final seconds, 89-88

Broadway, Virginia Tech grad had a Rocky Mountain summer with the Rockies

Fort Defiance, Virginia Tech hoops great Dell Curry made his NBA debut 40 years ago

Pro Wrestling Power Rankings: This week’s Top 10, post-‘Crown Jewel’

Ray Petree | The greatest world heavyweight champions in NWA history

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