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Augusta County: Former Nexus Services CEO arrested on child sodomy charge
We have the basic details on the Oct. 20 arrest of former Nexus Services CEO Michael Donovan on a child sodomy charge.
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Albemarle County: Deer collision causes chain-reaction crash, death
A driver on Interstate 64 in Albemarle County is dead from injuries in a chain-reaction crash late Monday night that started with another driver hitting a deer.
Fox Sports runs America Next TV ad ‘Full of Hate’ on weekend football broadcasts
A shady outfit calling itself America Next ran a TV ad with the title “Full of Hate” on Fox Sports – of course it was Fox Sports – on the Indiana-Michigan game on Saturday and the Detroit-Green Bay game on Sunday.
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Valerie Hayes case: Judge sorting through legal issues in Mennonite kidnapping
Another status hearing in U.S. v. Valerie Hayes took place in Charlottesville federal court on Tuesday, with multiple motions and replies from both sides since the hearing held earlier this month.
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Virginia set to get $52 million from feds for Hurricane Helene restoration efforts
Two years after the remnants of Hurricane Helene caused more than $600 million in damage in Virginia, the Trump administration is giving us a trickle toward restoration efforts.
How we got here: Summary of U.S. v. Valerie Hayes, the ‘Mennonite kidnapping’ case
In the late hours of July 29, 2018, a young Old Order Mennonite couple were getting ready for bed. The government says that’s when a long, drawn-out plan to kidnap five Old Order children from two respective families and execute their parents came to end.
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Tony Elliott offers odd defense of QB: What about the left tackle, who’s awful?
We’ve reached peak Tony Elliott, who in his weekly presser on Tuesday mused aloud why, with respect to his team’s demonstrated, obvious struggles, “everybody’s asking about the quarterback, but nobody’s telling me to replace my left tackle who, you know, didn’t play great, right?”
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ACC Football: Players of the Week for Week 8, courtesy the select media panel
The anonymity of the ACC Football select media panel continues to be a concern, for me, because I report on this panel’s voting for players of the week each week, and I don’t even know that the panel is made up of real people.
UVA Football: Still trying to figure out the Tony Elliott buyout terms, if, you know
I wrote to the FOIA office at the University of Virginia on Saturday to request a copy of UVA Football coach Tony Elliott’s most recent contract, in line with my effort to try to determine what the buyout would be.
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