The Latest Breaking News from Virginia

Commentary: The price of censorship

Education has always been a battleground in the culture war, but the fight over what can or should be taught in schools has escalated to the point where, as in Virginia, it can determine who is elected to high public office.

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2022

Jeremy Roach scores season-high 15 as Duke basketball beats Virginia to split series

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Duke teammates who won a Virginia high school state championship together two years ago, Jeremy Roach and Trevor Keels put the Blue Devils in position to win at John Paul Jones Arena Wednesday night.

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2022

Virginia’s Tony Bennett honors Mike Krzyzewski in classy pregame moment

What a heartwarming moment.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Feb 24, 2022

Churchill Downs Agrees To Acquire Peninsula Pacific Entertainment Assets For ~$2.5B

Churchill Downs Inc (NASDAQ:CHDN) has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Peninsula Pacific Entertainment LLC (P2E) for $2.485 billion. The acquisition will include all of P2E's assets in Virginia and New York and the operations of its Sioux City casino property. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2022. "This…

Benzinga · Feb 22, 2022

Jushi To Launch Various Cannabis Brands And Products In Massachusetts

Jushi Holdings Inc. (CSE:JUSH) (OTCQX: JUSHF) is launching a series of branded cannabis products in Massachusetts, beginning with the debut of its flower brands, The Bank and Sèchè.

Benzinga · Feb 22, 2022

Editorial: The ERA, hotly controversial in the 1970s, should be an easy lift today

After all the epic upheaval in the 1970s over the Equal Rights Amendment, some are arguing that the constitutional amendment declaring, simply, that women must be afforded the same rights as men officially became law last month — two years after Virginia ratified it and put it over the 38-state…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 22, 2022

Born without legs, Virginia HS wrestler Adonis Lattimore wins championship

Adonis Lattimore has no right leg and only a partial left leg, but the Virginia high school wrestler capped his season with a championship.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Feb 22, 2022

Tyler Cowen: Wokeism has peaked

I’m calling it: Wokeism has peaked. Yes, it will remain a highly influential movement, and it will probably continue to spread globally. But in the U.S. at least, wokeism and the woke will ebb.

Tribune News Service · Feb 19, 2022

Virginia attorney general moves to withdraw from ERA lawsuit

Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants the state to withdraw from a lawsuit that seeks to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2022

Virginia House passes five public-sector union bills

On Feb. 15, the Virginia House of Delegates passed five Republican-sponsored bills dealing with public-sector union policy. The bills are now in committee in the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority. 

Ballotpedia · Feb 18, 2022