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A top official in Virginia's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says an autopsy determined the cause of death for Irvo Otieno was “positional and mechanical asphyxia with restraints." -
Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in the company’s history and shifting landscape of remote work.
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A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. is being moved into Colonial Williamsburg.
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A Democratic-led Virginia Senate panel has defeated several bills that would have restricted abortion access in the state.
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A former Virginia Parole Board chair violated state policy and law in her handling of cases at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and could have faced criminal charges for falsifying documents if not for the statute of limitations, the state's attorney general said Wednesday.
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A school superintendent says administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not find the 9mm handgun he brought despite searching his backpack.
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A background investigator erroneously failed to check a would-be trooper’s mental health history, allowing him to be hired for the Virginia State Police the year before he kidnapped a 15-year-old girl and killed three members of her family in California.
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It took just minutes to free the statue of Gen. A. P. Hill from the base Monday morning before it was moved to a bed of tires on a flatbed truck.
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The University of Virginia has canceled its game against rival Virginia Tech scheduled for Saturday following the slaying of three football players.
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The latest lawsuit comes on the heels of the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee saying its investigation will end early next year.
