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Friday Read 280,000 eggs disappeared from America’s top producer. Then came a ransom note.
“I’d like to report a crime,” said the man who called a Maryland sheriff’s office on April 16. There was a theft, he explained, involving a freight truck. “So they stole the whole freight?” a dispatcher asked. “Only took the cargo,” the man answered. It was valued, he said, at about $100,000. The dispatcher asked what was stolen. The caller hesitated. “They took … basically … they took a whole trailer full of eggs.”
John Reid would vote ‘no, no, no’ on in-progress constitutional amendments
After Tuesday’s primary election cemented state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, her opponent Republican lieutenant governor candidate John Reid on Wednesday laid out his goals if elected to the state’s second-highest office. He also announced plans to assemble work groups to study key issues and pledged that if Democrat-led efforts to enshrine reproductive rights, voting rights and same-sex marriage rights into Virginia’s constitution met a tie in the Senate chamber, he would break it by voting them all down.
Virginia Democratic lineup set, with Hashmi declared winner of lieutenant governor race
Virginia state Sen. Ghazala F. Hashmi of Richmond won a six-way Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, according to election results projected by the Associated Press, completing the party’s lineup of nominees for November statewide elections in which Republicans and Democrats alike have a chance to make history. ... Hashmi, 60, an Indian immigrant and former literature professor and community college administrator, would become Virginia’s first statewide officeholder who is Muslim or South Asian if elected in November. She faces Republican John Reid, who would be the state’s first openly gay statewide elected official if he wins.
They fell in love on WhatsApp. The travel ban means their wedding is off.
They had sent out invitations, bought their rings, and arranged travel logistics: Mohamed Abdo, the groom-to-be, would fly from Virginia to Egypt, where he would marry his fiancée, Hana Abdalaziz, in a traditional Sudanese wedding. The ceremony in Cairo scheduled for next month was supposed to be a festive, in-person introduction for the couple, who had fallen in love over WhatsApp after each of them fled armed conflict in Sudan and landed on opposites sides of the Atlantic Ocean. For months, they talked every day over video calls about building a life together in the D.C. suburb where Abdo, 44, had made a home and started a career.
Part 3: He saw his dad ostracized for reporting on civil rights. She grew up to be the Register’s first Black reporter.
David Womack was told to avoid downtown Danville during the summer of 1963. His parents instructed him to stay away, he recalls, though countless other kids his age were there daily — and the only difference between them and David was the color of their skin. He knew they were participating in civil rights demonstrations, but he was 14 years old and it was summertime. “I knew there were things going on that were impactful, but at first, I had other priorities in my life at the time,” David said, looking back on that summer 62 years ago. But the demonstrations began to feel very real to David when he saw how much his father cared about them — and how their family was treated as a result.
Part 1: Civil rights protesters trusted one Danville paper — and it wasn’t the daily
There was a routine to Sundays in the Moore household. A big breakfast and the morning paper, followed by church service. It was June 1963, and the cool mornings warmed up quickly into long, sticky days. Eighteen-year-old Dorothy Moore sat with her parents and her sister at the kitchen table of their home in Camp Grove, a historically Black neighborhood in Danville. Like usual, Dorothy’s father passed around different parts of the daily local newspaper, the big Sunday edition of the Danville Register.
Stoney concedes to Hashmi in lieutenant governor primary
Former Richmond mayor Levar Stoney conceded the lieutenant governor race to State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi Wednesday morning. Both the GOP and Democratic ballots in November are now set to be among the most historically diverse tickets in Virginia history. The AP called the race for Hashmi Wednesday morning after Stoney's concession. "I'm incredibly proud of the campaign we ran and the many Virginians who supported our efforts to fight for a fair shot for all Virginians," Stoney said in a statement. "Unfortunately, in this primary we came up a little short."
The surrendered sword that gave birth to America returns to Virginia
Paul Morando lifted the lid on the wooden crate that had been shipped to the National Museum of the U.S. Army from England the night before. He paused, took a pair of blue gloves from a coat pocket, and put them on. He and an assistant, Lisa Noll, removed the crate’s two inner covers. They pulled out the white packing paper. And Morando, the museum’s chief curator, lifted out the 275-year-old sword.
VPAP Visual House Primary Turnout: 2025
See which House of Delegates primary elections had the highest voter turnout on June 17. Select a district to see the candidates in the race and the other local or statewide primaries on the ballot that may have influenced turnout.
Winsome Earle-Sears outlines pathway to GOP victory in Virginia that will defy the odds
Four years after winning statewide office in Virginia, Winsome Earle-Sears is back in the political arena. But this time around, the lieutenant governor hopes to succeed her boss, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), as the Old Dominion’s chief executive. It won’t be easy. Youngkin and Earle-Sears flipped Virginia red in 2021 by running a campaign built on backlash toward former President Joe Biden's leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.