The low-security facility at the Federal Correctional Institution in Petersburg will be shut down "to address decades of deferred maintenance and extreme staffing challenges."
- DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch
Chesapeake Bay blue crab numbers in 2023 were half the 2011 total, and officials aren't exactly sure why.
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The FBI logged 124,319 gun background checks in Virginia in June — an all-time record since the agency began publishing state-by-state data in 2001.
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250 years ago, the United States severed its bonds with Great Britain. But it didn't forsake everything. At Maggie's in Charlottesville, the Sunday roast lives on.
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Albemarle County man Tahim Mayo faces multiple drug charges after a targeted local and regional narcotics operation earlier this week.
- ANNA BRYSON Richmond Times-Dispatch
Hours after Virginia's new ban on assault weapons took effect, the Trump DOJ filed suit against the commonwealth.
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