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Virginia State Republican Party fights to suppress votes that may prove critical in the battleground state this November.   Republican lawmakers in Virginia announced Monday that they were filing a lawsuit against Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe to block an executive order he introduced in late-April which would restore the voting …

“I think Donald Trump would be best for the job.” The Imperial Wizard of the Rebel Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Virginia said the group is no longer a hate group, despite being one of 32 active groups in the state identified by the Southern Law …

Four Virginia Beach police officers will not be charged in the shooting deaths of two people – one of whom was unarmed – inside a car in a convenience store parking lot, the city’s chief prosecutor said Wednesday. The decision comes after a six-month investigation by the Virginia State Attorney’s …

It has been a wildly tumultuous campaign for Donald Trump these past six months, and at this point, I don’t think anybody except Mr. Trump himself can really predict what exactly he is aiming for at each speaking event. Nonetheless, I think we can probably safely assume that what ensued …

Alpha Natural Resources, a bankrupt coal company headquartered in Bristol, Virginia, outlined a plan to pay top executives up to 11.9 million in bonuses over six months as a “reward” for slashing benefits for workers and simultaneously sidestepping environmental remediation obligations during its bankruptcy proceedings. As one of the four largest …

Raw Story: “A bill filed by a Virginia lawmaker this week would require schools to be certain that children are using the restroom corresponding to their “correct anatomical sex.” The legislation, which would prohibit transgender students from using the bathroom matching their gender, is being sponsored by Republican Del. Mark Cole. House Bill …

Via Filming Cops:   City police used unwarranted deadly force when they shot and killed the mentally ill man while attempting to evict him from his apartment, the man’s estate administrator claims in court. Lawrence Faine, a schizophrenic, was a resident in Calvary Towers, an affordable housing complex serving low …

Students in a world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton, VA were asked by their teacher to practice Arabic calligraphy with a passage from an Islamic text.  The teacher says she was demonstrating the artistic merit of calligraphy.  Parents claim she was attempting to convert their children to Islam…. …

First, Detective Abbot was leading a teen sexting case and wanted to take photos of teenage genitals as evidence… Then boys from the youth hockey program the detective coached in his free time came forward to the police department on Monday with inappropriate text messages and allegations of inappropriate contact …