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Staunton Police Chief issues nothingburger statement on Sept. 22 officer-involved shooting
Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams released a lengthy public statement today on the Sept. 22 officer-involved shooting of a Black man at the Staunton Walmart, and the TL;DR report that I can give you having read it is: we don’t know any more now after the statement than we did before.
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Charlottesville Police investigating attempted home invasion: One intruder wounded
Charlottesville Police are investigating an apparent attempted home invasion in which a man exchanged gunfire with two intruders early Tuesday morning.
Augusta County Sheriff’s Office finally acknowledges ‘escaped inmate’ from last week
The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office is finally acknowledging the “escaped inmate” that we’d been asking about from last week.
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Department of Forestry updates Fall Foliage Report: Looking better than expected
Good news: the year-long drought that we seem to be coming out of, finally, isn’t diminishing our fall foliage season.
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Beth Macy hosting ‘AI and the Workforce’ town hall in Staunton on Oct. 4
The big thing about AI, to me, isn’t so much the supposed 10 percent chance that it will kill us all by the end of the decade, as it is the 90 percent chance that the oligarchs haven’t thought through that it will take all of our jobs.
Augusta County sheriff reverses course on Flock cameras, takes them down
Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith has done a 180 on his Flock cameras, confirming on Monday that he had directed his department to remove the two automatic license plate readers that had been tracking vehicles on Jefferson Highway.
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Game Preview: What UVA Football fans need to know about Florida State
The guy that scares me heading into Saturday, right off, is Ashton Daniels, the QB1 at Florida State.
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First look: ACC Football schedule for Week 5, which kicks off on Friday night
ACC Football enters Week 5 with nine games on Friday and Saturday, highlighted by conference matchups throughout the weekend.
First look: UVA Football gets another Week 5 matchup with Florida State
Heading into Week 5 last season, the UVA Football program was feeling good, not quite great, but good, about itself, with a 3-1 record, and a chance to get some national love with a Top 10 Florida State team coming to Charlottesville.
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Reese Bull | Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline is lost in the woods, again
We are fortunate in the Sixth District to have some of the largest areas of public forest land in the East. We have a responsibility to cherish and protect this resource.
Department of Forestry updates Fall Foliage Report: Looking better than expected
Good news: the year-long drought that we seem to be coming out of, finally, isn’t diminishing our fall foliage season.
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