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The 31-mile extension would run from Pittsylvania County into North Carolina.
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The Creative ReUse Center's volunteers altered dresses and suits for the LGBTQ+ prom.
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Recent data from the Richmond Fed also points to slowing sectors.
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The transfer comes at no cost to the school division.
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The county is overhauling its 1970s-era zoning rules.
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Data shows federal health cuts will harm rural communities nationwide.
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President Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency that enforces ethics law and protects whistleblowers, despite Ingrassia's links to extremists.
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The Manitoba wildfires have forced 17,000 people to flee the province. Plumes of heavy smoke are expected to drift into the United States over Friday and Saturday, affecting millions of Americans.
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Adams sued over an allegation in a 2016 documentary that he sanctioned the 2006 killing of a British spy in Ireland. A jury in Dublin's High Court awarded Adams damages of 100,000 euros ($113,000).
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France to ban smoking at beaches, parks and outside schools from July 1st to protect children.
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Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans granted temporary parole under a Biden-era program would lose their temporary legal status.