Halloween Happenings: Your guide for Halloween 2022 local events
Halloween is being celebrated in the region with haunted houses, hayrides, pumpkin picking and lots of events involving spooks, mazes, candy, crafts and fun for all ages.
Halloween is being celebrated in the region with haunted houses, hayrides, pumpkin picking and lots of events involving spooks, mazes, candy, crafts and fun for all ages.
VDOT road work schedules in the Staunton District, Culpeper District and Lynchburg District for the coming week.

A Hampton man was sentenced last week to 27 months in prison for a fraud scheme to obtain unemployment benefits made available because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
You can’t call Kenny Lee an outsider. Lee, running for the Ward C seat on Waynesboro City Council, was born and raised on Shiloh Avenue in the Port Republic Historic District.

Two more Roanoke men involved in a fatal shooting at an Eastern Avenue drug house in Roanoke pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for their roles in the shootings and related drug trafficking activity.

The final two defendants in a four-man robbery team that threatened both an Albemarle County woman and a Charlottesville man at gunpoint pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court.

The Virginia Department of Corrections contracts with GEO Group to run the Lawrenceville Correctional Center, which houses around 1,250 state prison inmates.
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia seeks input from retired law enforcement, firefighters, educators, federal employees, and other public sector workers who were denied Social Security benefits.
“With the onset of COVID-19, the already strained mental health system was hit by a perfect storm of personal fear and anxiety, societal and political upheaval, forced isolation, loss of life, and an economic downturn,” according to a Blue Ridge Health District 2022 Mapp2Health report.

The virulently anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List has endorsed Yesli Vega in the Virginia Seventh District congressional race.
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