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How Virginia paid more than $250 million for a road that never got built
The failed toll road in the southeast colors the state’s view on how to add lanes on I-66 in Northern Virginia.
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USDA Blog » Urban Garden Tackles Hunger, Boosts Nutrition
A really interesting article about urban gardening, food deserts, and an initiative in Richmond, Virginia.
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A Brutalist Wonderland in the South
A personal take on the first post-war planned community in the U.S
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Virginia Finally Drops America’s ‘Worst Voting Machines’
If you voted in a Virginia election any time between 2003 and April of this year, your vote was at serious risk of being compromised by hackers. That’s the assessment reached by Virginia’s board of elections, which recently decertified some 3,000 WINVote touchscreen voting machines after learning about security problems with the systems, including a poorly secured Wi-Fi feature for tallying votes.
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Deadly shooting during live TV news report in Virginia
Gunman kills 2 in shooting that happened during CBS affiliate's live report
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Virginia high schoolers suspended for wearing Confederate flags
More than 20 students at a Virginia high school were suspended Thursday after wearing clothes emblazoned with Confederate flags in protest of a school ban, officials said. Montgomery County Public Schools spokeswoman Brenda Drake said 25 students arrived at Christiansburg High with clothes violating the Confederate flag ban. Twenty-one of the 25 refused to comply when challenged by school officials and were issued...
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Virginia Republicans Admit They Rigged The State’s Congressional Districts To Elect GOP Lawmakers
The GOP's goal was to render congressional elections little more than political theater, an annual ritual that would produce the same 8-3 delegation every single time.
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Flooding Sweeps East Amid 'Mind-Boggling' Rains
Flash flooding intensified in some areas of the East on Sunday as unrelenting torrential rain and high winds blamed for at least five deaths swept across much of the battered region.
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No, John Kasich, I don't want Taylor Swift tickets
My hand was raised, my body half-way out of my back-row seat, when Gov. John Kasich finally acknowledged me. "I'm sorry, I don't have any Taylor Swift concert tickets," he said, his eyes meeting mine. The older members of the audience chuckled as my friends' jaws dropped to the floor. It was astonishingly clear that Gov. Kasich did not come to Richmond for my vote.
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Thomas Jefferson's Lost Chemistry Lab Found
A worker renovating the Rotunda at the University of Virginia made an unexpected discovery.
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A College Romance That Led to Murder
Decades ago, two young lovers were convicted of a brutal slaying. Years later, why has the case become a cause? By Nathan Heller.
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Virginia to end concealed carry reciprocity with other states
Officials will announce that the state will no longer recognize concealed carry handgun permits from 25 states that have reciprocity agreements. The move also means Virginians with a history of stalking, drug dealing or inpatient mental-health treatment cannot obtain a permit in a state with comparatively lax laws and carry a handgun legally at home.
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Construction crew unearths remains of ‘corduroy road’ in Fairfax
Remnants of cedar-log highway could date to the Civil War era, historians say.
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Virginia’s Cold History: Have You Heard of the “Washington & Jefferson” Snowstorm?
Our Founding Fathers were notorious weather watchers. Their diaries detail Virginia's harsh winters, giving NOAA 18th-century records.
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Former Columbia high school track star charged with abduction and murder of Virginia teen
A Virginia Tech student from Columbia has been charged in Virginia with the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl who had been missing since last week, Blacksburg police said.
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How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field
After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain. By Jennifer Billock.
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Prince William County officer killed on first day on street
A Virginia police officer was killed while responding to a domestic-related shooting a day after she was sworn in, authorities said. Prince William County police officer Ashley Guindon was killed Saturday night in Lake Ridge. She was sworn in Friday. Two other officers were injured in the shooting, authorities said. One was in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds and another officer was stable, according to Corey Stewart, chairman of the board of county supervisors.
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Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard
“Annie Dillard wasn’t sure she was going to like me, she says, not long after I arrive at her cabin near Cripple Creek, Virginia, in the dark vastness of a November evening.” By John Freeman.
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Ham to Ham Combat
The Tale of Two Smithfields. By Emily Wallace. (Dec. ’15)
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Governor Issues Sweeping Order to Let Felons Vote in Virginia
Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, is using his executive power to allow more than 200,000 convicted felons who have served their prison time to vote, circumventing the Republican-run legislature.
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