
Whittney Evans
Features Editor, VPM NewsWhittney Evans is VPM News’ features editor. She studied journalism and political theory at Morehead State University, where she was also a student reporter at WMKY. Before coming to VPM News in 2018, she worked for KCPW and KUER in Salt Lake City, covering politics, government, criminal justice, housing and more.
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Judge Henry Hudson hasn’t announced yet whether he’ll toss the case, but urged all parties involved to ask the General Assembly to deal with the issue through legislation.
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Across the state, people are struggling to find at-home tests and schedule more reliable lab tests at clinics and pharmacies. Meanwhile infections are at a historic high.
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Starting this week, undocumented Virginia residents, including children, can apply for state ID cards.
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Attorney General Mark Herring is suing the Hampton Roads-area town where police officers held an Army lieutenant at gunpoint during a traffic stop one year ago.
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Many people are using interactive COVID-19 maps and data trackers to decide where it is and isn’t safe to travel. But epidemiologists say the maps aren’t always a good indicator of what’s happening on the ground. They ask Virginians to protect themselves regardless of where “hot spots” crop up.
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The Chair of Virginia’s Parole Board forwarded a press release Tuesday. The subject line: "setting the record straight."
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On Tuesday, a federal court in Richmond will hear arguments in a lawsuit against the state of Virginia over it’s policy of barring the public from accessing court records remotely.
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State and local law enforcement can look forward to a pay increase under Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed two-year budget.
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The decision was announced Sunday at the request of Richmond officials, who told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that they’d been negotiating the removal behind the scenes.
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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a Mississippi abortion case that could end or significantly roll back abortion rights in the country. The court’s conservative majority signaled it will uphold the Mississippi restrictions, opening the door for other states to stamp out abortion access. Mississippi’s Attorney General asked the court to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established a constitutional right to abortion up to about 23 weeks.