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Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning July 7.
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Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
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Colonial Williamsburg's annual July 4 fireworks show draws thousands and requires a year of planning and agreeable weather to ensure safety.
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The full 2025 GOP ticket appeared together for the first time on Tuesday.
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A Henrico County judge issued a consent decree OKing the controversial practice.
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The justices are set to review lower court rulings in favor of trans students in Idaho and West Virginia.
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Search and rescue efforts continue in Central Texas where flash flooding has left at least dozens of people dead.
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The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but the country has been reluctant to allow in foreign tourists.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales will join the King and Queen in granting Royal Warrants — a sort of "seal of approval" — on certain goods and services.
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Ukraine said it struck a Russian airbase on Saturday, while Russia continued to pound Ukraine with hundreds of drones overnight, dashing hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the war.
Arts & Culture
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- 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?