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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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Where the mess that UVA Football is headed over the next few weeks
The rest of you are now seeing the writing on the wall with UVA Football that I started warning you about after the West Virginia game.
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Ray Petree | Terry Funk vs. Leatherface: Two sons of Texas facing off in Japan
For the last century, the Lone Star State has been the world’s leading producer of great professional wrestlers.
ACC Basketball season tips off on Sunday with Notre Dame-Villanova in Rome
ACC Basketball is here, with a 9:30 a.m. ET Sunday tipoff for Notre Dame-Villanova, from Rome, to get the 2026-2027 season under way.
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