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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Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a suspect in Sunday's UVA shooting, is being held without bond. -
More than half of Americans will have an election denier on their ballot this November.
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The historically Black university located in Petersburg grew by about 350 students this fall for a total enrollment of more than 4,600.
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The bronze statue stood in a Charlottesville park near the city’s downtown mall, before city council voted to donate the monument to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
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The families of gun-violence victims have said the experience is transformative, marked by mental anguish, strained relationships and financial burdens.
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In a motion filed Tuesday, city leaders said the city manager decided to fire Brackney due to “chaos and upheaval” in the police department, not discrimination or retaliation.
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In 2020, the General Assembly approved a law giving local citizen police oversight panels fuller investigative powers.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed the two-year budget in June, which included a provision that forbids localities that held failed casino referendums in 2021 from trying again in 2022.
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The roughly 10’x6’ photos hang from trees on the Downtown Mall through the end of September.
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Charlottesvillians reflect on how the city has and hasn't changed since the 2017 white supremacist rally.
