"Metropolis does not use license plate recognition,” Morrissey said. “Instead, our computer vision platform is trained on a comprehensive and proprietary data set to recognize vehicles with a ‘vehicle fingerprint’ based on its unique characteristics..."

"Tuesday night, at its final meeting of 2025, Newport News City Council voted to approve a more than $3 million grant to give the Port Warwick Foundation the money in order to organize a festival that’ll include live performances, concerts..."

"The off-duty officer’s wife, who was with him in the restaurant where the initial conversation took place, additionally had “no relevant information” to corroborate the officer’s account."

"According to prosecutors, federal officials searched the brothers’ names in a federal database of firearm purchases without including their middle initials, leading to what they described as “inaccurate reports of firearm purchases” by the two."

“People already have health issues down there, are already fighting cancers and lung diseases. They don’t need more,” Mello said.

"Jeffrey Epstein helped Leslie Wexner repurpose the CIA’s Iran-Contra planes from arms smuggling to shipping lingerie."

"In a statement to The Cavalier Daily, Deeds acknowledged that the University’s FOIA release did not include all of the materials that he requested."

"Transparency by default is a good thing, but it has to be earnest and real and not just used as a political talking point. Press releases about raising the bar are irrelevant when that bar has been subterranean for the last eight years..."

"An FBI investigation into an alleged terror plot in Southern California bears the familiar hallmarks of the bureau’s long-running use of informants and undercover agents to advance plots that might not otherwise have materialized, court documents show."

“What we found is that PFAS is pretty much everywhere,” said Nick McLelland, a masters engineering student at Virginia Tech who worked on the study. “We found it 100% of our samples.”

"Metropolis does not use license plate recognition,” Morrissey said. “Instead, our computer vision platform is trained on a comprehensive and proprietary data set to recognize vehicles with a ‘vehicle fingerprint’ based on its unique characteristics..."

"A new state investigation into Virginia's only youth prison says Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center failed to document required wellness checks, substance use therapy and emergency drills."

“If there aren’t charges or indictments, I’m just going to go ahead anyway,” Rawls said, later adding, “I’m ready to move, I’m tired of this.”

“They’ve shared their research more publicly,” she said, “but what matters more to me is how honestly they’ll talk about the harmful decisions that were made, who made them, and how those decision makers will be held accountable.”

Dog attacks persist in Virginia prisons despite 2024 law change

Prosecutors drop charges against Virginia Beach assistant principal, brother in alleged ICE plot www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

"A little over a year after incorporating additional surveillance technology throughout the city, Martinsville’s Police Department is in the process of scaling it back."

"Alcorn said even the possibility of a casino in the Tysons area could have a “chilling effect” on economic development there, based on his conversations with property owners and developers."

“And at the end of the day, we’ve got to help the people,” she said, ​“and that’s what I’m going to remind members of my party.”

"Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment accusing unnamed individuals connected to a sanitation contractor of harboring undocumented immigrants, including children, and providing them with fraudulent identification to work at an Eastern Shore poultry plant."

“How can you charge us more money for something we can’t even use?” Carter said. "I can’t wash my daughter’s clothes. I can’t cook with this water. I’m scared to clean with it, wash my dishes and my daughter’s bottles.”

"Staunton announced this afternoon that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove the six automated license plate readers installed throughout the city."

"The lawsuit from Lisa Vedernikova Khanna, a candidate in Virginia, alleges that the California-based company “conditioned” her employment on her ending her campaign..."

nice.

Let’s go Staunton!

"Staunton announced this afternoon that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove the six automated license plate readers installed throughout the city."

"I want to be absolutely clear of what happened in this case," defense counsel said Thursday. "These charges were dismissed today, not because of a legal technicality, and not because the evidence was weak or questionable; they were dismissed because there was no evidence, none."

Update on the alleged anti-ICE plot in #VirginiaBeach: "They did nothing wrong; they had a spirited conversation in a restaurant that was misconstrued by someone, and it went way too far..."

"The credibility of a Central Virginia police officer is in question after he was accused of illegally using law enforcement technology to gain information about another officer, who was dating his ex-girlfriend."

Prosecutors drop charges against Virginia Beach assistant principal, brother in alleged ICE plot www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

"A barking dog has resulted in the arrests of two Stafford men on multiple felony charges and the seizure of 243 chickens, police said."

"As she prepares to start of first year as a state legislator, Nicole Cole talks the job ahead, opportunities and challenges, and getting a jump on the job."

"...Hu and other neighbors are drawing attention to what they say is an unfair and unhealthy plan. “This is an environmental injustice, because you got this big corporation coming in saying we want to go through your backyard,” Hu said."

"I think that there is also something else going on with engaged voters, especially young ones. There is far less deference to positional authority. They don’t really care what titles and roles you’ve held."

“The people of Virginia have a right to live with dignity and security,” he said. “It is the duty of the Democratic Party to deliver this vision.”

“A pox on Republicans for starting it,” said former Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling in a recent interview, “and a pox on the Democrats for now wanting to be part of it.”

“The people of Virginia have a right to live with dignity and security,” he said. “It is the duty of the Democratic Party to deliver this vision.”

Portions of Poquoson River closed to shellfish harvesting trib.al/B9nUiTd

"Eviction filings in January 2025 reached the highest levels since January 2020, and data collected so far in 2025 shows an increase in eviction filing totals compared to our previous years,” Hoff told the commission.

"I don’t know where he is,” Richmond Sheriff Antionette Irving said of Tavares Floyd. “But he’s not in my jail.”

"Schmidt laid out a progressive policy platform emphasizing more accountability for law enforcement, protections for immigrant communities...energy affordability and repealing Virginia’s right-to-work law that limits union power."

Surovell won't support an independent gaming commission unless the GA pushes through his donor's pet casino project first? This is one reason Democrats can't credibly attack GOP corruption in Virginia.

“...Roem continued, “because all the heavy hitters of corporate Virginia hate this bill, and so they don't like it because it will limit their ability to make as much money as possible from sticking these things where they don't belong.”

"Between January 2024 and October 2025, the group recorded between 39 and 76 storms at each site... The results showed that the spots within solar arrays often saw “rapid, and at times substantial,” amounts of surface runoff."

"Eviction filings in January 2025 reached the highest levels since January 2020, and data collected so far in 2025 shows an increase in eviction filing totals compared to our previous years,” Hoff told the commission.

"It is unacceptable for any elected official—especially one who claims to stand with working people—to defend a law that undermines those very principles" it wrote, referring to Virginia's right-to-work law.

"But in Virginia, reporters from Lee’s newspapers and Courthouse News say they can’t even get new civil complaints from their own counsel due to the terms of online subscription system called Officer of the Court Remote Access, or OCRA."

"But candidates such as Macy, Barlow and Mitchell are campaigning in a political landscape that could be bulldozed by spring."

"An adjunct faculty member at VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs has filed a $5.3 million defamation lawsuit against former Wilder School instructor Bill Leighty..."