Tag Archives: Virginia

The Virginia Mercury reports: Days after John Reid became the de facto Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, Gov. Glenn Youngkin has asked him to drop out of the race. Reid vowed he would “not back down” in a fiery video response on his campaign’s Facebook page Friday evening. Youngkin’s request, first reported by The Richmonder, came in response to allegations …

Norfolk’s PBS affiliate reports: A controversial military-themed brewery championed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin is closing a little more than a year after opening in Norfolk. The company blames a “local woke mob,” but legal filings show a company in deep financial distress dating back years. Armed Forces CEO Alan Beal wrote in a statement the company will sell its Norfolk …

The Myrtle Beach Sun News reports: North Myrtle Beach Police arrested a Virginia man after they found “voluminous amounts” of child porn on his cell phone. The man appears to be a former pastor at a Virginia Baptist church. Chadwick Branch, 55, was arrested for two counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor on Feb. 11. Branch seems to …

ABC News reports: As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, a new major winter storm will move across the U.S. this weekend into early next week. Around 47 million Americans across 14 states were under winter weather alerts as of early Saturday morning, with many expecting the storm to be sustained into …

The New York Times reports: A Virginia man was arrested this month with what federal prosecutors described in court papers on Monday as the largest cache of “finished explosive devices” ever found in the F.B.I.’s history. The man, Brad Spafford, was taken into custody at a farm outside Norfolk on Dec. 17 on the basis of a single-count criminal complaint …

Axios reports: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin made a pitch to incoming staffers for Trump’s administration: Move to Virginia, just across the Potomac from D.C. The Republican governor wants the blue suburbs of Northern Virginia to welcome MAGA world. “We offer a great quality of life,” Youngkin says in a video posted on X on Tuesday, touting “award-winning schools, where parents …

CNN reports: Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly has esophagus cancer, the longtime Virginia congressman announced in a statement Thursday. “It was a surprise because, except for some intermittent abdominal aches and pains, I had no symptoms,” Connolly, 74, said. “I’m going to undergo chemotherapy and immunotherapy right away. Cancer can be tough. But so am I. I will attack this the …

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) won a third term on Tuesday by fending off a challenge from Hung Cao, a MAGA Republican backed by former president Donald Trump, the Associated Press projected. Cao’s vivid language drew fleeting national attention to the race at their lone debate, when he declared that the military does not need diversity in …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris has won Virginia, maintaining Democrats’ control of the state at the presidential level despite some Republican inroads in recent years, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Polls in the run-up to Election Day showed Harris leading Trump by a comfortable margin. According to The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ average, Harris led Trump …

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Virginia election officials Friday that accuses the state of striking names from voter rolls in violation of federal election law. The lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria says that an executive order issued in August by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin requiring daily updates to …

NBC News reports: Hung Cao, the Republican Senate nominee in Virginia, disparaged drag queens and people who are tolerant of them by implying Wednesday that they are not tough enough to serve in the military. Cao made the remarks in a televised debate against Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine when one of the moderators asked him about his previous comments tying …

The New York Times reports: The campaign of Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret who is running in a competitive race for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, has posted footage of him posing with a woman and her three daughters in what looks like a photo that might be used for an annual holiday card. In another …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris holds a comfortable lead in the presidential race in Virginia, according to a new poll from Emerson College/The Hill/WAVY-TV 10/WVBT FOX43. Fifty-two percent of likely Virginia voters said if the election were held today they would vote for Harris, while 44 percent said the same about Trump. Four percent said they were either undecided …

From the Justice Department: Michael Mandel Baldwin, 55, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on charges of wire fraud and securities fraud, for orchestrating an $800,000 investment scheme, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. According to trial evidence, witness testimony, and …

Roanoke College Polling reports: Vice President Kamala Harris holds a slim three-point lead over former President Donald Trump (47%-44%) in a head-to-head matchup in Virginia and a similar lead (45%-42%) when other candidates are included, according to the Roanoke College Poll. In the U.S. Senate race, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine leads his Republican challenger, Hung Cao, (49%-38%). The previous poll …

The Roys Report reports: A pastor who led a “generation of youth” in Virginia has been charged with 19 counts of sexual abuse, including 10 counts of forcible sodomy and eight counts of indecent liberties with a child while in a custodial role. David Lawrence Schneider, of Farnham, Virginia was also charged on Aug. 9 with aggravated sexual battery, according …

Law & Crime reports: A Winchester, Virginia, man who vowed to light Vice President Kamala Harris on fire and “personally pluck out her eyes” reacted with surprise when investigators showed up at his door “over a comment,” a federal complaint alleges. The defendant, identified as Frank Lucio Carillo, allegedly used his GETTR account to make “threatening statements” about Harris and …

NBC News reports: “The people of our district are reaching out to our campaign demanding that we pursue a recount. Our donors, our volunteers, and our supporters expect it,” Rep. Bob Good’s campaign manager and senior advisor Diana Shores said in a statement to NBC News. Shores’ statement comes ahead of the Virginia State Board of Elections meeting Tuesday afternoon, …

USA Today reports: The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, a decorated Navy veteran, has made repeated references to becoming disabled after he was “blown up” in combat, and has stressed that he has scars from his military service while Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine got rich from the safety of Capitol Hill. Yet the Navy service record for …

The Associated Press reports: Rep. Bob Good, one of America’s most conservative congressmen, was locked in a tight renomination battle against state Sen. John McGuire [photo], an opponent endorsed by former President Donald Trump, in Virginia’s primary election Tuesday. Ballots remained to be counted, and the close margin made the race too early to call. Virginia observes the Juneteenth holiday …