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Waynesboro: Everything we know at this point about the Westwood Hills shooting
A 19-year-old listed as being from Waynesboro, but not a current student of Waynesboro Public Schools, never attended Waynesboro High School, from what we’ve been told, forced his way into Westwood Hills Elementary School early Wednesday morning, shooting an adult staff member, then turning the gun on himself.
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AccuWeather: Record heat on both side of the Blue Ridge this week
That early taste of fall that we had for a couple of days last week, yeah, summer’s back, and it came back with a vengeance.
Harrisonburg: 19-year-old shot near JMU campus on Saturday night
A 19-year-old reported being shot in a housing complex near the JMU campus on Saturday night, and Harrisonburg Police are still trying to figure out what went down.
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Spanberger meets with cattle farmers to discuss Trump beef imports
Today’s troll level: expert honors go to Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who hosted a roundtable in Botetourt County, just down the road from the home of our Sixth District congressman, Ben Cline, to hear from Virginia cattle farmers.
Virginia DEQ response on Northrop Grumman pollution matter: Our hands are tied
I just read through the 15-page “Summary of Public Comments and Responses: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation” put out by the Virginia DEQ last week.
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UVA Football: A lotta love for the ‘Hoos from 1 million SP+ simulations
Bill Connelly, the ESPN guy who invented the SP+ metric, had a column today with the details of the 1 million simulations of the 2026 college football season that he ran using his preseason SP+ numbers.
UVA Football: I’d keep the offense vanilla as long as is humanly possible
Beau Pribula, the new QB1 at Virginia, acknowledged, in the aftermath of his team’s 34-8 squash match win over NC State on Saturday, that what UVA Football coach Tony Elliott had told reporters a few minutes earlier was correct.
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WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Morton main-eventing wrestling fundraiser in Louisa
WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Morton is putting his hair on the line in the main event of a pro wrestling fundraiser show in Louisa next month.
Michael Schoeffel | In search of Wrigley Magic: A rain delay and a walk-off
There I was in Chicago, having dragged my wife and 5-year-old son there under the pretense of a beach vacation – our AirBnB was only a block from Lake Michigan – but of course the real reason we were there was to see my beloved Cubs.
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All of the flowers for the team at UVA Health that got me through skin cancer surgery
The first big part of my issue with skin cancer is over and done with – on the scale once offered up former UVA Football coach Al Groh, who said that surgery is successful if the patient lives through it; the surgery was successful, because I’m writing this.
ACC Football: Two games on Thursday slate kick off long Labor Day weekend
ACC Football kicks off five straight days of action on Thursday with a pair of primetime matchups featuring Wake Forest and Georgia Tech.
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