Top Story
Rape, abduction charges against former UVA Football player Jahmal Edrine dismissed
The rape and abduction charges against former UVA Football player Jahmal Edrine have been dismissed, less than a month before Edrine was set to go before an Albemarle County jury for a scheduled four-day trial.
Top News
John McGuire offers new defense of ‘no’ vote on 2024 child marriage bill
Fifth District MAGA Congressman John McGuire took to his socials on Wednesday to try to explain why he was the only member of the State Senate to vote against a 2024 bill to raise the minimum marriage age in Virginia from 16 to 18.
Oops: Waynesboro bus driver drops off IEP student on a busy highway a mile from home
Top Waynesboro Public Schools administrators are not talking about a troubling incident in which a student at Kate Collins Middle School was dropped off by a bus driver more than a mile from home on the heavily trafficked Rosser Avenue.
The Latest
Featured
Which one of us is the ‘other’ Chris Graham? I’m saying it’s the attorney
My name popped up today in reporting on the fraud trial involving former Nexus Services execs Michael Donovan and Richard Moore, and let me be clear here – I am not the Chris Graham who is the defense attorney in that one.
News & Views View all
Virginia State Police trying to track down family of deceased Colorado man
Virginia State Police have been trying for going on three weeks to locate relatives of Edward James Donegan, 74, of Colorado, who was found deceased on Oct. 4 in Richmond.
Waynesboro: Jim Wood, who survived ‘Pete Buttplug’ by laying low, is running out of time
The one thing that Waynesboro City Councilman Jim Wood, the MAGA slur-flinging chairman of the Waynesboro Republican Committee, might have going for him in his re-election run is, Ward D is the last remaining Republican ward in the city.
ICYMI
Sports
UVA Football: What the now-dismissed Jahmal Edrine case did to the 2026 season
UVA Football coach Tony Elliott was done with transfer portal season when Albemarle County Police charged Virginia’s top returning wideout, Jahmal Edrine, with the rape and abduction of a former girlfriend, beginning a nearly nine-month legal saga that ended on Thursday, with the charges being dismissed, less than a month ahead of a scheduled four-day jury trial.
Sports News View all
UVA Football: Update on the injury list, with notes on key guys who are ‘out,’ ‘doubtful’
Good news: only 24 guys are on the injury list for UVA Football this week, ahead of Friday night’s game with Duke; that’s down from the 25 that were on the list last week for SMU.
ACC Football: Seven-game schedule for Week 8 begins with UVA-Duke
The UVA-Duke rematch of last year’s ACC Championship Game kicks off a two-day, seven-game ACC Football schedule for Week 8.
The Latest
Rape, abduction charges against former UVA Football player Jahmal Edrine dismissed
The rape and abduction charges against former UVA Football player Jahmal Edrine have been dismissed, less than a month before Edrine was set to go before an Albemarle County jury for a scheduled four-day trial.
Spanberger on Louise Lucas indictment: ‘Presumed innocent until proven guilty’
Gov. Abigail Spanberger is taking the closest thing to the high road that she can take with respect to the news that her political nemesis, Louise Lucas, has been charged in a multi-count racketeering indictment by the Trump DOJ.
Featured Video
AFP is funded by readers like you.
We have reached 57 percent of what we need to fund critical operations for 2026. If you have been waiting for the right time to support AFP, this is it.