First order of business: Trump directs federal employees to return to office
Of the executive orders signed by newly inaugurated President Donald Trump yesterday, he ordered federal employees to stop remote work and return to offices.
Of the executive orders signed by newly inaugurated President Donald Trump yesterday, he ordered federal employees to stop remote work and return to offices.
A commercial poultry flock in Virginia has tested positive for H5N1 Avian Influenza, more commonly referred to as the bird flu or HPAI.
Jay Matthew Kenyon, 47, of Harrisonburg, was sentenced earlier this month to 15 months in prison for brandishing a knife at police during the Jan. 6, 2021, putsch that Kenyon and thousands of fellow self-styled citizen-patriots led on behalf of Donald Trump.

Glenn Youngkin and Jason Miyares are doing everything short of shouting the n-word in their responses to President Biden’s move to grant clemency to two innocent Black men serving life sentences for a murder a jury said they didn’t commit.
A Virginia man was sentenced to more than five years in prison and ordered to pay $98,000 in restitution for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP since 2017, will speak Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the University of Mary Washington.
Virginia, in 2020, became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the effort led by Jennifer McClellan, then a state senator, now a congresswoman.
A Harrisonburg man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $2,000 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
The sweeping wildfires in Los Angeles are just another horrific manifestation of the rapidly increasing and deadly effects of climate change.

A drug-ridden house known as “The Yellow House” in Richmond’s Union Hill neighborhood was forfeited today and will be sold.
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