Attorney General Jason Miyares has announced that Virginia joined a task force to help combat one of the largest and most invasive types of scams in the digital age: unwanted scam robocalls. The force, called the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force, is a bipartisan nationwide group consists of 50 attorneys general to investigate and take legal […]
Mike Long, who served as Chairman of the New York State Conservative Party from 1988 to 2019, died on Sunday. His friend, George Marlin, former head of the New York Port Authority and author of a history of the party, described him when he retired as party chairman in 2019 as “the quintessential street corner conservative.” Mike Long was […]
Floods that have devastated Kentucky has been receiving support from Virginia Red Cross workers, who have gone on to describe the deadly flooding that is taking place in the area. ‘They’ve lost EVERYTHING As reported by WRIC, more than 200 Red Cross disaster workers have traveled into the flood-ravaged communities to assist, including workers from […]
Meeting the same fate as the first attempt, a federal judge has dismissed the second attempt to force the Republican-controlled House of Delegates to hold an unscheduled election this year. Previously, a lawsuit by Democratic Party activist Paul Goldman attempted to force the House to hold an unscheduled election this year, on the claims that House […]
Dominion Energy is now operating a 12-megawatt bank of three battery systems at its Scott Solar facility in Powhatan County. That’s the largest battery storage project the utility operates, according to a Thursday announcement, and is part of a pilot program aimed at developing energy storage alongside wind and solar power generation. “Battery storage is an […]
State Senator Jen Kiggans (R-Virginia Beach) is criticizing her opponent for Congress, Representative Elaine Luria (D-VA-02), for voting in favor of the CHIPS and Science Act while holding NVIDIA stock. “Elaine Luria’s vote to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for an industry in which she owns up to $25 million in stocks would be unethical, self-serving, and […]
Virginia first responders made a trip to Texas to lend a helping hand to the Texas firefighters, who are currently fighting wildfires in extreme drought with low humidity. Kenny Aliceburg, a part-time firefighter with Powhatan Fire and Rescue, deployed with the Virginia Department of Forestry on a 20-day trip. “We’re just ready to go at […]
A woman in southwest Virginia got the surprise of a lifetime when she discovered a snake inside a bag of popcorn at her local grocery store. Kimberly Slaughter from Lunenburg County, Virginia, was inside a Shoppers Value store when she saw what she believed to be mouse feces inside of her shopping cart, WTVR reported. […]
Most Virginia localities were expected Friday to start receiving their share of the first payment in an opioid settlement, about $4.1 million split across the 133 localities. Additionally, Virginia’s Opioid Abatement Authority (OAA) will receive about $9.9 million, Attorney General Jason Miyares announced. “I’m thrilled to announce that after a long period of waiting, the […]
Miyares recently paid a visit to the Fairfax County Police Association for a candid conversation with members of law enforcement, revealing some of the Attorney General’s gravest concerns. Murders have increased, rape and other sex crimes have increased too, and there has been an uptick in assaults in Fairfax County. This is all according to […]
