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By CONOR HOLLINGSWORTH,
WTKR-TV
If you took a look around the room at the New Hope Christian Community Center on Tuesday night, you’d see a room of people still grieving from losing a loved one.
“It’s a nightmare,” said Radia Capehart, who lost her 15-year-old son, Shayne, to gun violence in 2022. “It’s an absolute nightmare you cannot wake up from. It’s just constant 24/7.”
VaNews April 24, 2024
By MICHAEL MARTZ,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Bill Moher ended one congressional campaign last month in Northern Virginia and resurfaced this month in Richmond as the Republican nominee in the 4th Congressional District. Moher, a technology and business consultant from Arlington County, will challenge Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, who is seeking her first full term after winning a special election last year to fill the 4th District seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Donald McEachin, D-4th.
VaNews April 24, 2024
By MATT BUSSE,
Cardinal News
Eight environmental groups have filed a petition in federal court challenging regulators’ approval of a planned extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, arguing that the project’s scope has changed so much that an earlier approval is no longer relevant.
The pipeline developers’ latest plans for the MVP Southgate extension from Pittsylvania County into North Carolina call for a shorter route and a wider pipe to transport nearly twice as much gas as previously planned. Developers have also abandoned plans for a new compressor station in Pittsylvania.
VaNews April 24, 2024
By MARTA BERGLUND,
WVEC-TV
Shana Turner is the founder of Hampton Roads Mothers Against Senseless Killings (M.A.S.K.). She started the organization after her son, Shaquille, was killed in 2017. … Turner co-hosted a crime victims’ rights forum Tuesday night, alongside Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, Pastor Calvin Durham of New Hope Church of God in Christ and local law enforcement leaders.
VaNews April 24, 2024
By TAD DICKENS,
Cardinal News
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that disputed a Virginia law governing internet service providers’ ability to string fiber across railroad lines.
The lawsuit, which the Association of American Railroads filed last year on behalf of Norfolk Southern and CSX, was a response to a new state law that reduced the approval process time and costs to ISPs, particularly the state’s electric cooperatives, that were trying to reach rural customers across railway tracks.
VaNews April 24, 2024
By PRESTON STEGER,
WVEC-TV
Virginia is once again gearing up for primary elections, as voters across the Commonwealth will pick who they want to represent them in the U.S. Congress later this year.
One of Virginia’s two seats in the Senate, and all 11 House of Representatives seats are on the ballot on Nov. 5, 2024. Primary elections for those seats will be held on June 18. Several races already have party nominees in place, since those candidates didn’t have anyone else running against them. The deadline to become a candidate in the Democratic or Republican primaries was April 4.
VaNews April 24, 2024
By DWAYNE YANCEY,
Cardinal News
Just like that — snaps fingers — Abigail Spanberger is the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor next year.
To be fair, she’s had that position for a while now, which is no doubt what led Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney to drop his gubernatorial bid Tuesday and announce instead for lieutenant governor.
That instantly led state Sen. Aaron Rouse, D-Virginia Beach, to announce what had been widely known anyway: that he’s also a candidate for lieutenant governor. So is Babur Lateef, the chair of the Prince William County School Board. Will a three-way race induce others to enter on the theory that the vote will be chopped up and a majority may not be necessary to win?
VaNews April 24, 2024
By NATALIE ANDERSON,
Virginian-Pilot
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Two cities in Hampton Roads with new speed cameras have raked in around $20 million in revenue since implementing the technology over the last two years. But the legality of the processes used to issue citations and collect fees is now being questioned in a lawsuit filed by a former state legislator who says it’s not exactly what the General Assembly intended when it crafted the legislation allowing municipalities to deploy speed cameras.
VaNews April 24, 2024
By MICHAEL MARTZ,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin didn’t have far to look for a new chief executive officer at the struggling Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. Youngkin announced on Tuesday that he is appointing Dale Farino, a retired alcoholic beverage distribution executive whom he named to the ABC Board last month, to lead the authority. The governor also announced that he is replacing Farino as vice chairman of the board with Mark Stepanian, the former owner and CEO of Loveland Distributing Co., a beer wholesaler based in Richmond, which is now owned by Premium Distributors of Virginia.
VaNews April 24, 2024
By EMMA MARTIN,
News & Advance
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) made a stop in Lynchburg on Monday to talk with voters at La Vida Coffee and Market, between visits to Roanoke and Farmville. A former Virginia governor and mayor of Richmond, Kaine was first elected to the Senate in 2012 and is seeking a third term this November. “...[I]t’s just good to gather, tell people why I’m running again and how excited I am to keep representing Virginia but also take their questions and take their advice,” Kaine told reporters after the event.
VaNews April 24, 2024
