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Interim UVA President Paul Mahoney and Rector Rachel Sheridan pushed back over what the university officials called a “m...
10/30/2025

Interim UVA President Paul Mahoney and Rector Rachel Sheridan pushed back over what the university officials called a “misunderstanding” of the agreement with the Justice Department under President Trump over alleged civil rights violations.

The University of Virginia is defending the “truce” it signed with the U.S. Department of Justice last week against mounting concerns raised by state Democratic legislators who oppose continued fed…

Looking for something to do during the next week? Here are just a few happenings in Hampton Roads.
10/30/2025

Looking for something to do during the next week? Here are just a few happenings in Hampton Roads.

Coming up: Broadway in Norfolk presents “The Wiz,” NekoCon at the Hampton Roads Convention Center and a Fleetwood Mac tribute band is performing in Virginia Beach.

Environmental groups and large-scale fishing operations have sparred for years on how to manage Atlantic menhaden. Now, ...
10/30/2025

Environmental groups and large-scale fishing operations have sparred for years on how to manage Atlantic menhaden. Now, a regional regulatory body has made the decision to cut the amount of menhaden that can be caught next year.

Environmentalists and the fishing industry have debated for years whether or not to have additional limitations on menhaden, a small, silvery, plankton-eating forage fish that serves as an importan…

China has agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually as part of an agreement reached by its lea...
10/30/2025

China has agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually as part of an agreement reached by its leaders, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says China has agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans.

As many as 100 volunteer reenactors from as far away as Massachusetts and New Jersey will join Colonial Williamsburg’s m...
10/30/2025

As many as 100 volunteer reenactors from as far away as Massachusetts and New Jersey will join Colonial Williamsburg’s military program staff for a weekend of events that tie into the nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary.

The 2nd Virginia Regiment will be recreated as part of a reenactment both Saturday and Sunday on the same ground where they mustered 250 years ago.

JD Vance called for a significant reduction in legal immigration, saying it threatens the social fabric of the United St...
10/30/2025

JD Vance called for a significant reduction in legal immigration, saying it threatens the social fabric of the United States.

Vance called for a significant reduction in legal immigration, saying it threatens the social fabric of the United States.

A North Carolina man accused of killing four of his children after human remains were found inside the trunk of a vehicl...
10/30/2025

A North Carolina man accused of killing four of his children after human remains were found inside the trunk of a vehicle at their home appears to have spread the slayings over several months, a sheriff said.

Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, was charged Tuesday with four counts of murder. The sheriff’s office said investigators believe Dickens killed three of his biological children, ages 6, 9 and 10,…

Watch: Abby Zwerner will be one of two witnesses to take the stand before the former teacher and her lawyers rest their ...
10/30/2025

Watch: Abby Zwerner will be one of two witnesses to take the stand before the former teacher and her lawyers rest their negligence case against former Richneck Assistant Principal Ebony Parker.

Here is the live steam for Day 4 of the civil trial in the case of a former Newport News school teacher who is suing her former assistant principal.

Tense scenes immediately following Abby Zwerner's shooting — captured on body camera footage — were played Wednesday dur...
10/30/2025

Tense scenes immediately following Abby Zwerner's shooting — captured on body camera footage — were played Wednesday during a civil trial in Newport News Circuit Court in which Zwerner is suing Richneck’s assistant principal, Ebony J. Parker.

The scenes — captured on Detective Amber Ruhlen’s body camera footage — were played Wednesday during a civil trial in Newport News Circuit Court in which Abby Zwerner is suing Richneck’…

Hurricane Melissa’s maximum sustained winds had increased to 105 mph as the restrengthening storm made its way past the ...
10/30/2025

Hurricane Melissa’s maximum sustained winds had increased to 105 mph as the restrengthening storm made its way past the Bahamas early Thursday.

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to gain strength as it moves toward Bermuda after lashing the Bahamas and Cuba and carving a deadly swath of destruction in Jamaica and Haiti.

On Thursday night, Michael Vick will be back with his former teammate DeSean Jackson, but this time they'll both be on o...
10/30/2025

On Thursday night, Michael Vick will be back with his former teammate DeSean Jackson, but this time they'll both be on opposite sidelines with headsets, not headlines.

Vick’s Norfolk State Spartans and Jackson’s Delaware State Hornets will clash Thursday night in a fitting place: Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Virginia lawmakers have been considering a proposed constitutional amendment that, if ultimately approved by voters woul...
10/30/2025

Virginia lawmakers have been considering a proposed constitutional amendment that, if ultimately approved by voters would allow lawmakers to temporarily bypass a bipartisan redistricting commission and redraw congressional districts.

Republicans in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina already have revised districts.

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