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A Virginia school district announced on Friday that they would appeal a judge’s ruling to reinstate a teacher that refused to use transgender students’ preferred pronouns. According to the New York Post, Loudoun County Public Schools plans to take its legal battle before the Supreme Court following federal judge James …

A Virginia teen is utilizing the experience to make a good influence on the lives of others after her father put 80,000 pennies on her front lawn as his final child support payment. When the pennies landed outside of Avery Sanford’s Richmond home last month, she was astonished and hurt, …

You about to lose your job. And that’s exactly what happened to a white Virginia food bank worker that told her neighbor she’s “not the right color.” Video footage of the woman shouting was taken Thursday by Laquetta Good, 30, who was being yelled at by her neighbor as she stood …

Just say no didn’t work for a Virginia elementary school teacher. According to Complex, on Wednesday, cocaine was found in a school teacher’s desk. Cybil Billie, a 46-year-old kindergarten teacher at Lakeview Elementary School, was arrested and charged with felony possession of cocaine, Division Superintendent William D. Sroufe stated. “The …

Caron Nazario, an Army lieutenant, says he was hesitant to pull over when a patrol car triggered its siren and emergency lights behind him in December. That stretch of road, just west of Norfolk, Virginia, was dark, and there didn’t appear to be any safe places to pull over. According …

Virginia has become the first southern state to legalize marijuana. Virginia was the first southern state to end the death penalty, and now it’s the first to make smoking that Mary Jane legal. The new freedom went official on Wednesday following the amendment of a bill by Gov. Ralph Northam. …

A man has been arrested and charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 7-year-old son, who authorities say he beat to death with a hammer in West Virginia. According to police, Rashad Akeem Thompson, 34, “just lost it” around 2:45 am Thursday at an apartment complex located in Beckley. Upon …

Chick-Fil-A is selling 16-ounce bottles of Chick-Fil-A sauce and Polynesian Sauce at grocery stores across the nation. The bottles of sauce are available at Walmart, Publix, HEB, Winn-Dixie, Food Lion, and Harris Teeter in Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The money …

Rep. Gerry Connolly is fighting to get the FBI headquarters renamed because J. Edgar Hoover was a racist and a misogynist. According to Business Insider, Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia said on Saturday that he wants the FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C. to have Hoover’s name removed from it, …

After exchanging gunfire with a security guard at a social security office last month, a Virginia man has died. The violence erupted on February 8th when 44-year-old William Rankin entered Norfolk’s Social Security Administration building. Once inside and armed with weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, Rankin shouted, “I …

A Virginia woman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for recording herself laughingly mocking and sexually abusing her boyfriend, who was dying from a drug overdose. According to the New York Post, Stafford County Circuit Court handed down the sentence to 32-year-old Megan Anne Walthall last Friday. Prosecutors …

A Virginia school district has elected to drop Dr. Seuss from its annual Read Across America event, citing “strong racial undertones.” The event occurs on March 2, which falls on Dr. Seuss’s birthday, causing the event to focus on his popular children’s books. According to Deadline, Loudon County schools will instead focus …

The remains of a missing 17-year-old teenager have been located and recovered after she disappeared seven years ago. Alexis Tiara Murphy went missing on August 3, 2013, when she left her Shipman home to visit Lynchburg. She was seen in a Lovingston gas station’s surveillance footage, which was also the …

A Florida teenager who was kidnapped at gunpoint along with her family has been located safely.  The scary ordeal took place in Pembroke Pines when 18-year-old Nicole Martinez and her parents were forced into the family’s pick-up truck by Jaddier Sanchez early Sunday morning. Investigators said that Martinez’s parents were …

Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin Jr. has died, and according to a statement from his office, he passed after contracting COVID-19. According to CNN, in a statement, the Republican senator’s family thanked the VCU Medical Center in Richmond for “its vigorous care and heartfelt support during his two weeks of …