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Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, we live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit.
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A Buffalo Gap High School student died in a Feb. 18 shooting on Maple Leaf Drive in Augusta County that the county sheriff, Donald Smith, said, per a news release, was “an isolated incident involving the illegal sale of handguns.”
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Twenty-four years ago today, July 2, 2002, Augusta Free Press was breathed into being. Looking back on July 2, 2002, it’s safe to say, we didn’t think we’d make it 24 years. My goal was much more modest – to just make it three months.
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Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith needs to be made to understand that he doesn’t get to choose what laws he enforces, and what laws he doesn’t want to enforce.
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When people picture a bad wreck on Interstate 81, they imagine the dramatic stuff: the closed lanes, the helicopter, the line of brake lights stretching back miles.
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The Daily Progress published a story on Monday headlined “Morale on decline within Albemarle County Police Department,” in which the local paper made a survey conducted in May/June 2025 into a present-tense thing.
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The Trump regime has launched an open-ended investigation into California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebell Newsom, with the news of this coming from, Gavin Newsom himself.
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A current resident of Waynesboro who heads up a local animal-care nonprofit was arrested on Thursday on an animal-cruelty charge related to an incident reported in Albemarle County.
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The MAGA craft beer company that Glenn Youngkin gave $300,000 of our tax money to is now suing the local “woke mob” that it claims led to its failure for $50 million, because why not.
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The City of Staunton is going to waste $15,000 of the money that we pay in state taxes for a digital documentary series that will “showcase the passion and craftsmanship of its local artisan community.”
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