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Politics Feb 07
Democrats speechless as scandal engulfs Virginia’s leadersWith Virginia's top three elected officials engulfed in scandal, fellow Democrats were rendered practically speechless, uncertain of how to thread their way through the racial and sexual allegations and their tangled political implications.
Politics Feb 06
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring reveals he wore blackface in 1980The revelation further roils the top levels of Virginia government.
Politics Feb 02
Virginia’s Gov. Northam says that wasn’t him in racist photoVirginia’s governor on Saturday vowed to remain in office despite widespread calls for his resignation after a racist photo surfaced on a school yearbook page. His refusal to step down could signal a potentially long and bruising fight with his…
Nation Feb 01
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 yearbook page features racist imageryThe Democratic governor released a statement Friday afternoon, acknowledging that it was a photograph of him "in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive," and apologizing for "the hurt that decision caused then and now."…
Nation Sep 24
Carolina residents prepare to evacuate as rivers riseAuthorities are urging 8,000 people on the South Carolina coast to be prepared to flee flooding that is expected to being Tuesday.
Nation Sep 22
North Carolina river swirls with gray muck near flooded coal ash dumpGray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by Florence's floodwaters.
Nation Sep 21
Dam breach at Duke plant in North Carolina, coal ash could spillFlorence's floodwaters breached a dam holding back a large reservoir at a Wilmington power plant Friday, and coal ash from an adjacent dump could be flowing into the nearby Cape Fear River.
Nation Sep 20
Floodwaters inundate lake at North Carolina power plant, raising alarmDuke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby Cape Fear River overtopped an earthen dike at the facility and inundated a large lake.
Politics Aug 08
Officials declare states of emergency ahead of anniversary of violent Charlottesville rallyVirginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville on Wednesday proactively declared a state of emergency ahead of the one-year anniversary of a violent white nationalist rally that left one person dead and dozens of others injured.
Politics Jun 12
Devoted Trump supporter Stewart wins Virginia GOP Senate nomA conservative provocateur and supporter of President Donald Trump won Virginia's Republican primary Tuesday in the U.S. Senate race, and he has promised to run a "vicious" campaign against incumbent Tim Kaine.