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.
Email Whittney: [email protected]
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The proposal includes capping a four-block section of I-95, and adding green space, new buildings and opportunities to celebrate, arts, culture and history. -
In Terrence Richardson’s petition for release, his attorney presented what he said was new evidence.
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“A certain group of my friends knew I was gay, but it was very much like, ‘You do not tell anyone,’" Jamie Lord told VPM News.
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As a freshman at Nansemond River High School in Suffolk, Ashley Alston Heberling’s passion for field hockey was rivaled only by her love of tennis. So, she was heartbroken when she learned the school would soon upend her plans to play both sports in the upcoming school year.
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More than 3,200 people in Virginia prisons are scheduled to go home early because of a new law that expands the state’s earned sentence credit program.
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The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission recommended that the state create a misdemeanor crime between a fine and a felony.
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Isememen “Isi” Etute now plans to pursue a college degree, according to a statement from his family.
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Isimemen Etute’s attorney’s moved to lessen their clients charges to manslaughter, claiming that there was no evidence to show he acted with malice.
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Defense attorneys said Wednesday that a former Virginia Tech football player feared for his life when he fatally beat a person he met online in April 2021.
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The attorneys for Isimemen Etute asked Judge Mike Fleenor to disregard a Virginia law that bars the use of a person’s perceived gender or sexual orientation as a criminal defense.
