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Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.
From news to sports, here’s a look at what stories and videos had the most views on Augusta Free Press in the past year.

We had already laid out a plan for where we’d wanted things to go from where we were. We’d shoot some videos with a back-and-forth between Marvin and Ricky, then end with the insertion of Nash into the feud.

I haven’t seen Hank Fawcett since the night of the pay-per-view, technically the early-morning hours the day after the pay-per-view, when he met my wife and I to give us a really big check to catch up on what he’d owed us for our work.

Kevin Nash, we didn’t know at the time, will do anything if his price is met, and his price wasn’t out of reach on this one, not with Hank fronting the money.
A man who went into cardiac arrest after a taser was deployed by a Lynchburg police officer on Christmas Eve died Tuesday.
It’s starting to dawn on the general public that what I’ve been reporting since the spring about Abigail Spanberger having the legal authority as governor to fire en masse the MAGAs on the UVA Board of Visitors was spot on all along.
Shocker, right, that I got emails from a trove of White guys who think a young Black man named J’Mari Taylor should consider it a privilege to entertain them.
A Virginia man is dead after a shootout with a State Police trooper after a pursuit on Route 29 in Pittsylvania County early Monday morning.
In case you missed them, Crystal Graham prepared a roundup of her top stories from 2025 on Augusta Free Press.
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