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Staunton: Justice for Puff and Leroy, two dogs left to die in squalor
A reader wrote to us this week concerned that a Staunton woman, Kimberley Diane Shepard, who had faced felony charges in the deaths of two dogs found decomposing in her apartment in 2024 was, in effect, going to get away with it, after learning that the charges had been dismissed earlier this month.
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UVA Football: 51-7 is karma, and, bad news, karma ain’t done with us yet
We usually get our biggest postgame traffic after a UVA Football loss, because people know, after all these years, that we don’t sugarcoat it.
Go figure: State Police leaks details of Staunton Police shooting to friendly reporter
The details of the Virginia State Police investigation of the Sept. 22 officer-involved shooting of a Black man at the Staunton Walmart were supposedly being withheld as the investigation continues.
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Sales tax referendum explainer: What would our schools do with the money?
Voters in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro will be asked on Tuesday if they want to approve a 1 percent local sales tax to provide local money for new school construction and renovation projects in their individual localities.
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Virginia Hunger Symposium opens on Monday at Blue Ridge Community College
Blue Ridge Community College and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank are partnering to present the 20th annual Virginia Hunger Symposium, which opens on Monday.
UVA Health acquires former State Farms operations center on Pantops
UVA Health announced on Friday that it has acquired the 365,000-square-foot former State Farm operations center on Pantops, which will allow the health system to free up additional capacity at University Hospital to expand inpatient care.
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Florida State fires football coach Mike Norvell, whose last win came over …
Florida State, four weeks after blowing out Virginia, 38-7, to, briefly, get its season back on track, has fired head coach Mike Norvell, effective immediately, amid a three-game losing streak that has the program on the verge of its third straight losing season.
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A-10 women’s hoops preview: Richmond expected to drop under new coach
With former University of Richmond head coach Aaron Rousell now in charge of women hoops at Virginia, the preseason experts expect a big dropoff this season by the Spiders.
UVA Football: Is Tony Elliott thinking about a change at QB? Maybe
You knew that UVA Football coach Tony Elliott would use the final Beau Pribula statline from the 51-7 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday – 20-of-29, 219 yards – against us.
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Earl Zimmerman | The latest news on our environment, the climate crisis
State Corporation Commission staff is recommending that the commission deny the proposed $67 billion merger of Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy.
Yvonne Surette | It has been a grand week for democracy across the world
Across the world last week, democracy was victorious. So many people voted in presidential elections that their will could not be denied.
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