Dominion Dispatch

Spanberger and Earle-Sears neck-and-neck in fundraising battle

January 16, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

The Virginia governor’s race is heating up as the latest fundraising reports reveal an early financial showdown between former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is seeking the Democratic nomination, and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the likely Republican nominee. Both [...]

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Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn; Virginia has similar law

January 16, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Other states with similar laws include Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia. --- LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography, though [...]

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Youngkin, GOP lawmakers push for transgender sports ban

January 16, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Republican lawmakers, joined by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, Attorney General Jason Miyares and student athletes, gathered on Wednesday to support legislation that would bar transgender students from participating in school sport teams inconsistent with their biological [...]

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GOP leaders call for ban on trans women in women’s sports

January 15, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

Virginia’s top Republicans joined hands to call on the General Assembly to keep transgender women – who they called “biological males” – out of women’s sports. --- Virginia’s top Republicans joined Wednesday to call on the General Assembly to keep transgender [...]

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Workers at a California senior home race to evacuate residents in wildfire

January 15, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

About 850 patients and residents of nursing, assisted living and group homes were evacuated, the state Department of Public Health says. --- Dinner service at the Terraces at Park Marino in Pasadena, California, was about half over, and residents gathered in [...]

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Earle-Sears raises more than $3 million for governor’s race

January 15, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears has raised more than $3 million for her campaign for governor, four months after declaring her candidacy. --- Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears has raised more than $3 million for her campaign for governor, four months after declaring [...]

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Spanberger: As governor, I will sign gun violence prevention laws

January 15, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

Gubernatorial candidate and former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger spoke at a rally for gun violence prevention outside the state Capitol on Wednesday morning. --- Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the presumptive Democratic candidate for governor, spoke at a rally for gun violence prevention [...]

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Legislation to translate K-12 assessments into multiple languages advances in Virginia

January 15, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading

Virginia students would be allowed to take the state’s annual learning assessments in a language other than English under a bill that advanced out of a House Education subcommittee on Tuesday. Del. Laura Jane Cohen, D-Fairfax, introduced the legislation, [...]

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Richmond water pump failed overnight

January 15, 2025 / 2 minutes of reading

A pump at Richmond's James River water treatment plant stopped working overnight, the city said Tuesday, a week after a six-day water outage cut off drinking water to thousands of customers. --- A pump at Richmond's James River water treatment plant [...]

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Bipartisan General Assembly group seeks regulation of data centers

January 14, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

A group of lawmakers from both parties is seeking state oversight on the growth of data centers. Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Monday that the state should not hinder data center growth. --- A bipartisan bloc of legislators from across the state [...]

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