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Chris Graham talks UVA-Duke with AFP Digital Editor Crystal Graham.

Chris Graham talks UVA-Duke with AFP Digital Editor Crystal Graham.

The year 2020 has been filled with major ups and downs, but nowhere has the good news been clearer than in the Virginia legislature.

The Staunton-Waynesboro-Augusta area is the only one among Virginia’s 10 metropolitan statistical areas to experience job growth over the past six months.

Virginia gas prices have fallen 1.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.09/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 stations.

State Sen. Emmett Hanger is forming a PAC that will work toward the passage of a constitutional amendment to mandate non-partisan political redistricting – and also allow him to explore a run for governor in 2021.

In a paper published Friday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers released data showing an alarming surge in opioid-related overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier will host the Breakthrough Car Show on Sept. 26.

Gov. Ralph Northam today voted early in person at the Richmond general registrar’s office on the first day of Virginia’s 45-day early voting period.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has denied Kanye West’s appeal of Richmond Circuit Court Judge Joi J. Taylor’s Sept. 3 ruling that removed West from Virginia’s ballots for November’s election.

A group of parents and student-athletes were scheduled to hold a “Let Them Play” rally in Richmond on Monday aimed at getting the Virginia High School League to reconsider its decision to move the start of the sports year back to December.
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