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July 4 shooting plot suspect pleads to immigration charge

A Guatemalan immigrant whom police have accused of helping to plot a mass shooting in Virginia's capital has pleaded guilty to an immigration charge

The Independent UK

Robin Abcarian: 4,000 abused beagles were liberated from captivity. This one found a home in California

You would hardly guess that for most of her 5½ years, Nancy was kept in a cage at a notorious Virginia beagle breeding facility owned by Envigo, producing litter after litter of puppies destined for research laboratories around the country.

Los Angeles Times

Dems have momentum: Take it down-ballot

Our analysis shows a narrow path for Democrats to win back state-level power. It's crucial — but it won't be easy

Salon

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Brickbat: Ticket to Ride

For Bob and Angie Shepherd, the news kept getting worse. First, Angie's car was stolen from their Alexandria, Virginia, home. Next, police in Prince Georgia's County, Maryland, told them it was used in a murder. And now, District of Columbia officials are demanding the Shepherds pay $400 in tickets accumulated…

Reason

Utility: Guarantee for large offshore wind farm 'untenable'

Dominion Energy Virginia says a ratepayer protection that state regulators included in a recent order approving the utility's application to build and recover the costs of a massive offshore wind farm will lead to the termination of the project

The Independent UK

The Black Coaches Who Should Be on Decision-Makers’ Radars This College Football Season

To expand common avenues for Black coaches to receive more prominent coaching positions, the powers-that-be must be actually willing to give them a look.

Sports Illustrated

Twins who married twins and have identical kids who are brothers AND cousins

Sisters Briana and Brittany Deane, 25, from Virginia in the US, tied the knot with twins Jeremy and Josh Salyer before giving birth to Jax and Josh - who are technically genetic brothers and cousins - just three months apart

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Today in Supreme Court History: August 22, 1998

8/22/1998: On August 22, 1998, Barry Black led a Ku Klux Klan rally in Carroll County, Virginia. The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of his prosecution for cross burning in Virginia v. Black (20030.

Reason

Critics say Virginia Republicans are using test scores to further politicize education

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It’s been a busy summer for Deborah DeJesus.

Tribune News Service

Edinburgh pub issues sharp response to bad review from wedding party who insulted staff

The Virginia native said their group of 12 had been denied seating at the Rose Street Brewery in Edinburgh.

Daily Record

Glenn Youngkin Says NIMBY Regulations Are Making Virginia an Impossibly Expensive Place To Live

The governor blamed local restrictions on new development for the state's rapidly rising rents and home prices.

Reason

Manchin dismisses critics, embraces 'hero and villain' role

Sen. Joe Manchin says he pays no heed to criticism when making decisions what’s best for West Virginia

The Independent UK

Islamic State militant gets life in U.S. prison over killing of American hostages

A U.S. federal judge on Friday sentenced a member of an Islamic State cell known as "The Beatles" to life in prison for involvement in a hostage-taking plot that led to the killings of American journalists and aid workers in Syria.

Reuters

ISIS ‘Beatle’ Faces Life Sentence for Us Hostage Deaths

A member of the notorious ISIS kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," is to be sentenced in a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria. El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison after being convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, in…

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Reason

The Failed Campaign To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird

Recent moves to censor the book have come from Virginia, Mississippi, and California.

WEKU

A post office closes over an historic exhibit showing signs for 'White' and 'Colored'

The U.S. Postal Service has closed a small Virginia post office over concerns about its location inside a historic train depot that also serves as a museum about racial segregation.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A QAnon follower who showed up to Philly’s 2020 vote count in a Hummer filled with guns is now facing Capitol riot charges

PHILADELPHIA — One of two Virginia men awaiting trial in Philadelphia for driving a Hummer filled with weapons to the Pennsylvania Convention Center during the counting of the 2020 election vote has been arrested again — this time for taking part in the Capitol riot.

Tribune News Service

Policies that notify Virginia parents of ‘sexually explicit content’ in school materials are on the way

NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia school boards have until the end of the year to adopt policies to inform parents if any instructional materials contain sexually explicit content, the latest step in the debate over what and how children should be taught.

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Salon

The abortion war in Bristol

A women's clinic moves a mile away — across state lines — as Tennessee makes abortion mostly illegal

Tribune News Service

Renowned researcher Marty Martin, dubbed ‘the ambassador of rattlesnakes,’ dies from rattlesnake bite

William “Marty” Martin, a renowned snake researcher who dedicated his life’s work to the study of timber rattlesnakes, died last week after he was bitten by a snake on the property of his West Virginia home, his wife said. He was 80.

The Independent UK

Virginia police officer who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 sentenced to 7 years

Thomas Robertson was an officer for the Rocky Mount Police Department in Virginia back on January 6 2021 when he stormed the Capitol to try to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election

The Independent UK

Ex-police officer gets 7-plus years in prison in Jan. 6 case

An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a fellow officer has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, matching the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases

The Independent UK

Book has insight, no clear answer on Northam yearbook photo

Another investigative effort to uncover the origins of a racist photo on Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page has ended inconclusively

Tribune News Service

On Gardening: Let the tiger days of summer celebration commence

Today I am here to say, let’s give up the dog days and create a celebration of the tiger days of summer. I am not talking LSU, Auburn or Clemson starting football workouts. I am, however, touting states like Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia coming together for…

Chicago Sun-Times

America’s fittest cities have the blues: how exercise can improve mental health

Arlington, Virginia, was the nation’s fittest community for the fifth straight year, the American Fitness Index rankings found. Chicago was No. 10.

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