Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) is accusing the Virginia Beach Police Department of forging forensic documents to obtain confessions during interrogations. Herring made the accusations earlier this week after his Office of Civil Rights concluded its investigation into the VBPD. The Daily Caller adds: Forged documents, typically purporting to link a suspect’s DNA […]
In one of his final acts as governor, Ralph Northam pardoned former state Sen. Joe Morrissey (D-Richmond). Morrissey, 64, was arrested in 2014 after authorities learned that he started a sexual relationship with his 17-year-old secretary. The Democrat pleaded guilty to one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. After a three month […]
More than 150 former EPA employees have sent an open letter to Virginia lawmakers, beseeching them to oppose Andrew Wheeler’s nomination. Wheeler is Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s nominee for secretary of natural resources. As The Hill reports: In an open letter written to the state’s senators, the former employees asked them to oppose the impending nomination of Andrew Wheeler, […]
The Loudoun County School Board has decided to withhold the results of its investigation into the handling of two sexual assaults cases. While the school board laid out a series of measures to prevent future assaults on Friday, it decided that releasing its findings would violate the privacy of the victims and be illegal. As […]
Glenn Youngkin hammered home his commitment to listen to Virginia’s parents on the campaign trail. Now, the governor-elect is showing he doesn’t just talk the talk. On Thursday, Youngkin announced the appointment of two conservative outsiders to the leading positions at the Virginia Department of Education: superintendent and assistant superintendent of public instruction. Bacon’s Rebellion […]
Democrats in the General Assembly are gritting their teeth in anticipation of a rare confirmation fight. Their target? Secretary of natural resources nominee Andrew Wheeler. Wheeler previously served as the head of the EPA during the Trump administration. As The Hill reports: Although Republicans regained control of the state House of Delegates in November’s elections, […]
The then-high school freshman who raped a girl in a Loudoun County high school’s girls’ restroom has received his sentence. The boy, now 15, was spared prison time after one of the victims’ mothers, Jessica Smith, asked that the convicted sex offender receive leniency. Jessica is married to Scott Smith. You may remember Scott as […]
Following two significant bouts of snow to start the new year and a traffic jam that left hundreds stranded, Virginia is bracing for what could be the biggest snow of the season. Parts of the Commonwealth are expecting up to 20″ of the white stuff this weekend. Though who gets what will come down to […]
A Giles County grand jury has indicted a former Virginia state legislator with four counts of embezzlement from his former employer, the county historical society. Joseph Ryan Yost represented the 12th District in the House of Delegates as a Republican from 2012 to 2018. Yost lost reelection in the 2017 House of Delegates elections to […]
Although outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam profusely apologized for being identified as the man in blackface in a now infamous picture, he soon insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. Now, with hours left in his term, Northam says he’s “99% sure” who wore blackface in the photograph on his page of the 1984 Eastern […]
