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Rearranging the deck chairs in the Fifth, Sixth after the Supreme Court ruling
All those people who rushed to switch their endorsements to Tom Perriello in the Sixth District Democratic race are feeling mighty stupid right about now.
Update in Augusta County stabbing case: Victim was only one at the scene
Odd twist to the stabbing case in Augusta County from Thursday, with investigators now saying “that no one else was in the home at the time of the stabbing.”
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One charged, one sentenced in Roanoke court in massive Oxycodone conspiracy
A story that seems ripped from the pages of Beth Macy’s bestseller Dopesick had its day in a federal courtroom in Roanoke on Friday.
Rockingham County: Work to begin on mile-long sidewalk on Route 11
A $2.4 million project to install a mile of sidewalk along Route 11 in Rockingham County is scheduled to begin on Monday.
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10-1 doesn’t have to be dead, if Virginia Democrats could just show some courage
If Jones, Scott et al in the Virginia Democratic Party leadership really want the 10-1 map that 1,604,276 voters approved last month, there’s this scenario laid out by Quinn Yeargain, a constitutional law professor at Michigan State.
Leave the trans kid alone: If you want to protest, there’s plenty worth protesting
What frustrates me the most about the holy war being waged by a local MAGA pastor over supposed trans kids in school bathrooms is, the guy is doing what the billionaires want people like him to do.
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Another week of viewer decline for AEW with Darby Allin as champ
I’m the heel here, again, for telling you that Week 3 of the Darby Allin-as-AEW champ era saw yet another decline in the ratings for “Dynamite.”
ODU Football alum Taylor Heinecke announces NFL retirement
ODU Football alum Taylor Heinecke announced his retirement from the NFL on Thursday, which, it’s notable that Heinecke ever had an NFL career to be able to retire from, when you think about it.
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Alon Ben-Meir: The global epidemic of violence in an age of impunity
Global violence today is metastasizing, not contained; over 180,000 violent events reported globally by the International Institute for Strategic Studies signal a world in which conflict has become a baseline condition rather than an exception.
Virginia Tech scientist addresses what we need to know about hantavirus outbreak
Donald Trump, saying he has been briefed on the recent outbreak of the Andes hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship, is trying to downplay any concerns about possible disease spread, telling reporters that the situation is “under control.”
