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Augusta County Sheriff’s Office finally acknowledges ‘escaped inmate’ from last week
The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office is finally acknowledging the “escaped inmate” that we’d been asking about from last week, and that they actually had deputies combing the area for the guy all weekend as they were ignoring our request for information.
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Breaking: Local paper tells us that a School Board candidate has dropped out
One of the candidates for the Ward C seat on the Waynesboro School Board dropped out of the race on Monday.
Staunton: Update on $4.6 million Downtown Tunnel Repairs project
The Downtown Tunnel Repairs project in Downtown Staunton entered its next major phase on Monday.
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State won’t close CCCA, but neither does it seem interested in fixing the problems there
A legislative commission isn’t changing its recommendation that Virginia should close the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton, but the Spanberger administration is following the lead of the Youngkin folks in resisting doing so.
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Ben Cline leaving the chair empty at Oct. 14 Clifton Forge forum, which is now off
Ben Cline, who just last week said his Democratic opponent, Beth Macy, “wanted the headline ‘debate me’ more than she wanted the night itself,” apparently wanted the headline “she didn’t show” more than he wanted the debate itself.
Kelvin Washington wanted another story: Probably shouldn’t have asked
The local political activist whose since-deleted Facebook video led to the unraveling of a Waynesboro School Board campaign was back with another video that he posted on Saturday in which he absolved Kelvin Washington.
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Wrestling world in mourning: PAC, hours after match on AEW ‘All Out,’ dead at 40
Benjamin Satterley, an English professional wrestling star known as PAC, died on Sunday at the age of 40, according to AEW.
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First look: UVA Football gets another Week 5 matchup with Florida State
Heading into Week 5 last season, the UVA Football program was feeling good, not quite great, but good, about itself, with a 3-1 record, and a chance to get some national love with a Top 10 Florida State team coming to Charlottesville.
UVA Basketball: ‘Hoos open exhibition schedule with sunny setback to Vanderbilt
It’s not even October yet, and we’ve already been given a glimpse of the new-look UVA Basketball team.
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ACC Football: Players of the Week for Week 4, with one inexcusable admission
It’s like the select media panel in charge of the ACC Football weekly honors is just messing with us, picking a guy with 14 missed passes to be the QB of the week over another guy who was 24-of-28 with four TDs.
Denver Riggleman leads (Former) Republicans for Perriello rollout
Denver Riggleman is leading a new effort called Republicans for Tom Perriello, though, not trying to be cheeky here, Riggleman is about as much a Republican today as I am. The Perriello campaign for the Fifth District congressional seat rolled out the new voter group on Monday. It wouldn’t have had less cachet, and would...
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