Gun trafficking report concludes background checks key to saving lives
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A study of criminal drug trafficking found that background checks save lives by preventing dangerous people from hurting others.
Search Results for fire
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Temperatures of 15 degrees below zero predicted in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
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A Cold Weather Advisory has been issued for portions of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland with dangerously low temperatures predicted.
Mark your calendar: New Dominion Bookshop announces winter event schedule
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New Dominion Bookshop has released its winter schedule which includes several acclaimed poets, an author of young adult novels and more.
Michael Schoeffel: Keeping a walking routine in the dog days of winter
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Now we enter the dog days of winter, as it were, with no Thanksgiving warmth or Christmas joy to save us from the bitter cold, and no holiday of significance to pull us through to the warm promise of spring (no, Valentine’s Day doesn’t count).
Fun with flags: Youngkin orders flags at full-staff for Trump inauguration
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin has Virginia joining the chorus of red states that will be flying their U.S. flags at full-staff for the Trump inauguration, interrupting the 30-day mourning period put into effect by Joe Biden in memory of former President Jimmy Carter.
Virginia father arrested, charged with felony child endangerment after search called off
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The father in a missing-persons case in Lynchburg has now been arrested and charged with felony child endangerment.
Albemarle County Police make arrest in North Garden armed robbery
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Albemarle County Police have made an arrest in the Dec. 23 armed robbery at a North Garden business.
Republicans cite insurance profits as excuse to fight effort to rein in prescription drug prices
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I love the excuse that Todd Gilbert, who holds the title House Minority Leader, meaning, he’s the top Republican in the Virginia House of Delegates, has for opposing an effort to rein in the cost of life-saving medicine.
Alon Ben-Meir: Addressing climate change strengthens economic growth
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The sweeping wildfires in Los Angeles are just another horrific manifestation of the rapidly increasing and deadly effects of climate change.
End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act: House Democrats at least trying to combat climate change
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The federal government provides $757 billion – billion, with a b- – in tax breaks and subsidies to the oil and gas industry. (And Republicans whine about the Green New Deal.)
