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By GAVIN STONE,
Virginian-Pilot
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Attorneys representing the Newport News School Board and former superintendent George Parker asked the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that allowed former Richneck Elementary School teacher Abigail Zwerner, who was shot during class by a 6-year-old student, to sue for damages. Additionally, the school board and Parker filed a motion asking the circuit court to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming they are immune from liability in the shooting. A Newport News Circuit Court judge ruled in November that Zwerner was not limited to filing a Worker’s Compensation claim and could instead sue for liability.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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At a recent rally to preserve a Black history site entrusted upon Virginia Union University, historian Selden Richardson used the school’s own words as an argument against the demolition of old Community Hospital. “The first 10 words of the mission statement of Virginia Union University are these: Virginia Union University is nurtured by its African American heritage,” he said during the rally at the hospital building on Overbrook Road.
VaNews April 15, 2024
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Editorial
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The warm fuzzies were in full force last week — from the shade-wearing crowds and eclipse-themed picnics on Monday afternoon to the warm, southwesterly breeze blanketing The Diamond on Tuesday for the Flying Squirrels’ home opener. For a moment, at least, the city’s esprit de corps was almost enough to block out the daily political drama: Gaza, Trump-Biden, abortion bans, congressional histrionics, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s seemingly endless vetoes.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By JOHN R. CENCICH,
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Virginian-Pilot
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On Monday, the clock was ticking, and with just three minutes before the stroke of midnight, the governor issued a stay of execution on the long-awaited, so-called “skill games” bill. Rather than dispatching it to its death through his executive veto power, he gave it an 11th-hour reprieve by sending it back to the General Assembly with amendments.
The bill, initially framed under a benignly sounding title, now calls a plum a plum. These are indeed electronic gaming devices. They are no longer veiled with euphemistic terms such as “skill games” or “mom and pop” shops.
Cencich of Luray is a professor and criminologist at Pennsylvania Western University, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh and political science instructor at James Madison University.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By EMILY HEMPHILL,
Daily Progress
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The Albemarle County School Board unanimously passed a resolution Thursday night granting 2,600 of the school division’s teachers, faculty and staff the right to collective bargaining. Albemarle County Public Schools joins eight other Virginia school divisions, including its next-door neighbor Charlottesville City Schools, that have adopted collective bargaining resolutions since 2021, when the General Assembly reversed the Virginia Supreme Court decision that outlawed the public sector unions in 1977.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By CATHY DYSON,
Free Lance-Star
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A Northern Virginia company looking to develop a 500-acre data center campus near the Navy base in Dahlgren is seeking community feedback on the project before the zoning case even hits the county. Based in Chantilly, Potomac Development Group will hold an informational session about the “Dahlgren West” project on Wednesday … The developer is working with the family of the late Ed Veazey to get the needed zoning, prepare the site and then turn it over to one or more end-users, said Nick Over, one of the company’s principals. Currently, the property is a mix of commercial, industrial and residential zoning.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By ANNA BRYSON,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Richmond School Board member Jonathan Young, who represents the 4th District, said Friday night that he is stepping down from his role following accusations that he acted inappropriately toward a student on a field trip.
Young’s resignation comes days after news broke that an outside attorney conducted an investigation into his interactions with a 15-year-old girl while on a field trip in December, which was first reported by WTVR-TV.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By SEAN JONES,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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A developer’s plan to rezone 622 acres for an eastern Henrico County technology park was given its first stamp of approval by the county Planning Commission. Developer Hourigan is pushing the project as an extension to the nearby White Oak Technology Park, with a plan to have co-locating data centers. ... Co-location data center facilities include server space used by multiple companies, government agencies and other entities, as opposed to enterprise data centers like those for Meta and Amazon, which are entirely built and managed by one company. Environmentalists and local historians opposed the tech park extension.
VaNews April 15, 2024
Virginian-Pilot
Editorial
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The notion that a budget is a reflection of values is oft repeated around statehouse halls each year as executive and legislative branches spar over what to fund and what to exclude, what to support and what to discard, while crafting their spending plans.
That’s certainly true here as Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the General Assembly have, over five months, offered starkly different visions for the commonwealth’s future. That back and forth, while unnecessarily combative, is likely to land with a consensus budget that makes modest strides, not bold leaps, toward meeting the commonwealth’s priorities.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By WILL VITKA,
WTOP
A Virginia man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Darl McDorman, 53, of Waynesboro, is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers during the attempted insurrection, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. news release.
He’s charged with “felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon,” the government said.
VaNews April 15, 2024
