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A front has been stuck near us for several days, bringing rounds of showers and storms, but a stronger front will soon clear that out and set Virginia up for a hot spell.
Some of the historical content in this story includes racial slurs and racist language. The group of Danville City Council members, all white and all men, gathered in the ...
Voters in nine localities across Southwest Virginia cast votes Tuesday in Republican board of supervisors primaries.
And technically, just one white male, period. Democrats have nominated Abigail Spanberger for governor, Hashmi for lieutenant governor and Jones for attorney general. Republicans have nominated ...
Del. Terry Austin, R-Botetourt County, beat his primary challenger. In the Roanoke Valley, Democrat Donna Littlepage will go on to face Republican Del. Joe McNamara. In a district that spans Grayson, ...
State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi on Tuesday won the party’s nomination for lieutenant governor and former Del. Jay Jones for attorney general.
Also named were sites in Louisa, Mecklenburg, Frederick, Halifax and Nelson counties, and in the cities of Charlottesville, Newport News and Staunton.
Hashmi appears to have won the county narrowly, which helps her maintain a narrow statewide lead. Taylor won Fairfax but doesn’t seem to have won it by enough to make up her statewide deficit. LG’s ...
Foreign military officers referred to the American military as “speckled,” owing to the diverse racial makeup of its troops.
Meanwhile, the Continental Congress has put George Washington in charge of a Patriot army just days before yet another battle ...
Draft resistance in the Northern Neck led to one man being charged with murder, but an uprising blocked his trial.
In 1963, the morning Danville Register and the afternoon Danville Bee were the two editions of the daily newspaper, owned by the same company. They eventually merged into one morning edition, the ...