Lawyers worry witnesses and victims may skip court out of fear of detainment.
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City Council to vote on real estate tax options Tuesday.
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The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point. How much further rates fall could depend on how President-elect Trump approaches his second term.
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Public tours at the Williamsburg Bray School are expected to begin in 2025.
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In today's political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they're nothing new. In the 1960s, the John Birch Society built a movement around them.
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An external review found the city has made improvements since 2017.
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TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of "Worst Cooks in America," has died. Medical examiners are set to determine what caused her death.
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Goliath had been paired with several female tortoises before, in hopes of producing a hatchling, but the process wasn't successful until earlier this month.
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President Trump is the first U.S. president in 116 years that the NAACP hasn't invited to the annual convention. The group says Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights.
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The highly anticipated text from the Senate is out — and it's already causing concern from GOP stakeholders in both chambers.
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Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white supremacist killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 in hopes of starting a race war.
Arts & Culture
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad
- How did Chesterfield County’s charter get lost so many times?
- Jefferson School bolsters history exhibit with Charlottesville student records