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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.
UVA Strong: ‘Hoos get win on a day honoring our 1-15-41 fallen heroes
The Virginia-Delaware game came to a brief halt at the first half two-minute timeout, for a special in-game moment for the families of Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D’Sean Perry, the three UVA Football players who were killed in a mass shooting on Grounds in 2022.
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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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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.
Jim Wood defends Pete Buttplug slur: ‘My best friend growing up is a lesbian in Atlanta’
Credit to News Leader reporter Lyra Bordelon for asking Jim Wood straight up this week about the “Pete Buttplug” controversy that got Waynesboro into the national headlines back in 2023.
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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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UVA Football: News and notes from UVA Strong Day win over Delaware
The one thing I didn’t want to see ahead of Saturday’s Virginia-Delaware game was Des Kitchings coming in with a game plan that had him running the ball 55 times.
UVA Football: ‘Hoos get back on track with 42-3 blowout of Delaware
Virginia is a 20.5-point favorite heading into its Week 4 matchup with Delaware, which is 2-1 at this point in the 2026 season, with an FCS win, a come-from-ahead loss at Vanderbilt, and a win over Coastal Carolina.
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Podcast: What we know about the death of AEW star PAC, which is, not much
AEW star PAC – real name: Benjamin Satterley – passed away on Sunday in Des Plaines, Ill., hours after wrestling on the “All Out” pay-per-view.
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.
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