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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Jay Jones wins Democratic nomination for attorney general
Jay Jones emerged victorious in Tuesday’s primary election as the Democratic nominee for attorney general. He will face incumbent Republican Jason Miyares in November. With 95% of votes counted, The Associated Press called the race for Jones. Jones, an attorney who previously represented Norfolk in the Virginia House of Delegates, had 51% of the vote compared to Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor, who had 49%.
Youngkin set to headline annual Iowa GOP dinner
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is headed to Iowa. The term-limited Republican is set to headline the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln Dinner on July 17 in Des Moines. The appearance will add to the speculation that Mr. Youngkin, a former businessman, is considering running for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination. Iowa has traditionally been the first stop on the Republican Party’s nomination calendar.
Greg Gorham wins GOP primary in western Prince William House of Delegates race
Gregory Lee Gorham, of Sudley Springs, has handily won today’s primary for the Republican nomination in the race for the 21st District House of Delegates seat, defeating the two other candidates with more than 66% of the vote. With all 17 precincts in the western Prince William County district reporting, Gorham, 65, won 970 votes. Sahar Smith, 57, of Catharpin, came in a distant second place with 395 votes, and Xanthe Larsen came in third with 95 votes, according to still unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections. Gorham will face incumbent Del. Josh Thomas, a Democrat, in the November election. Thomas is vying for his second term in the seat.
ResetUVA, Wahoos4UVA express polar views on UVa leadership
Two conflicting initiatives led by University [of Virginia] alumni, faculty, parents and students have launched within a month of each other at the University. They each express opposing views — ResetUVA, launched first, calls for the removal of University President Jim Ryan, and Wahoos4UVA, launched in response, is in support of Ryan. The groups emerged after a tumultuous year for both higher education more broadly and the University community.