Suspect sought in 2010 slay case finally busted — during routine traffic stop
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Suspect sought in 2010 slay case finally busted — during routine traffic stop

ByNews Polite

 A suspect sought in a 14-year-old slay case was busted last week in Florida — during a routine traffic stop for running a red light, authorities said. Timothy Hickerson, 43, recently became the prime suspect in the 2010 murder of Shane Donahue, 23, in Nokesville, Va., and a warrant had…

Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900
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Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900

ByNews Polite

Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nation’s diminishing number of women’s colleges. The private women’s liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams,…

Youngkin touts removal of 6K non-citizens as a result of election integrity measures
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Youngkin touts removal of 6K non-citizens as a result of election integrity measures

ByNews Polite

BRISTOL, Va. – On the campaign trail with Virginia’s GOP Senate nominee Hung Cao Friday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin touted the fruit of his election integrity labor — namely, the removal of more than 6,000 non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls and codifying the Commonwealth’s all-paper balloting system. “We went…

Vance hits Harris in Virginia in his second solo rally — ‘A million times worse’ than Biden
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Vance hits Harris in Virginia in his second solo rally — ‘A million times worse’ than Biden

ByNews Polite

RADFORD, Va. — Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance took to the stage for his second solo rally of the day — and the race — Monday evening, holding back no punches against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s newly anointed leader (at least for now). Harris is “a million times worse”…

U.Va. Faculty Calls for Review of Police Response to Protests
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U.Va. Faculty Calls for Review of Police Response to Protests

ByNews Polite

Protesters: “Disclose! Divest!” In student-led protests around the country, university faculty have stood in support of demonstrators, risking arrest. “He is a professor. He is a professor.” At the University of Virginia, The Times got an inside look at faculty’s role. “I can take you through the blow by blow…

Footage shows Irvo Otieno pinned down in leadup to death
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Footage shows Irvo Otieno pinned down in leadup to death

ByNews Polite

Sheriff officials and mental hospital workers in Virginia forcefully pinned down patient Irvo Otieno until he stopped moving and his body went limp, according to footage of the deadly encounter released Tuesday. The video, released by prosecutors who charged seven sheriff deputies and three hospital staffers with murder in Otieno’s…

Teddy Von Nukem from 2017 Charlottesville rally dies before drug trial
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Teddy Von Nukem from 2017 Charlottesville rally dies before drug trial

ByNews Polite

The man who appeared in one of the most haunting images from the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia shot and killed himself before standing trial over federal drug charges, according to reports. Teddy Von Nukem died more than five years after a viral image showed him and others…