The city issued a press release outlining what was found during an investigation.
Plus: Energy Department gives Virginia Tech $2.8 million for a project to improve energy transmission; Smyth, Washington counties receive GO Virginia grant for shared industrial park.
Before persuasion, before get out the vote, Democrats need to be working year-round in our own communities to build meaningful relationships.
Other appointments available on various city boards this summer. Learn how to apply, and get updates on water line tests and an ongoing economic development survey, in this news roundup.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that the Salvation Army denied a part-time case worker reasonable accommodation to seek treatment for cancer.
Benjamin Harrison was known for being a steadying influence at the Continental Congress and was respected enough that he was chosen to preside over the debates on independence. He also had a wit and a taste for food and drink that offended some New Englanders.
Here are some laws and budget items where it may take years to figure out their impact.
The farm and home goods retailer will set up a distribution facility in a county industrial park, according to the governor’s office.
With state tax exemptions for data centers in place, the Colorado-based company plans to locate in Southside.
Plus: Columbia Gas finishes a new Covington facility, Ringana property sale tops $9 million, Botetourt supervisors OK grocery store and a new bookstore opens in Collinsville.
The House and Senate approved all 14 of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s amendments to the spending bill in a move that brought an end to the nearly half-year-long budget uncertainty.
Jefferson also wanted to condemn Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation that offered freedom to Virginia’s slaves in exchange for fighting with the British, but Congress watered that down to the point where you wouldn’t recognize it unless you knew the back story.
The adoption of a budget ends one chapter and opens another. Here are the highlights.
The Hope Initiative focuses on addiction as a health crisis instead of a police matter. It helps connect people in active drug addiction to treatment resources nearby.
Virginia Tech grad was member of the team that worked on the Blue Ghost mission that landed on the moon. That team also won a prize that’s often compared to an Oscar in aviation and aerospace.
Plus: Danville’s annual Festival in the Park is looking for board members, and Hurt water conversations continue.
The new building would house all Radford University Carilion programs, a university spokesperson said.
The company, formerly headquartered in Roanoke, had recently settled a class-action lawsuit for $7.3 million, after plaintiffs alleged securities fraud.
Richard Henry Lee has become something of a forgotten founder, reduced to a comic figure in the musical “1776” or ignored altogether. But he was the one who first formally proposed that the Continental Congress declare the Colonies independent.