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A Look at the FOIA-Related Bills That Made Moves in the General Assembly This Year
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on April 6, 2021
The General Assembly is full of part-time lawmakers, people who bring their professional experience to the legislature. And that includes former journalists. Michael Pope has more.
Presidential Candidates Attend Annual Virginia Democratic Gala
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on June 14, 2019
Two presidential candidates will be in Virginia this weekend. They’re speaking to hundreds of state Democrats at the annual Blue Commonwealth Gala. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.
Analyzing What Turnout May Look Like for This Year’s Primary Elections
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on May 10, 2019
Credit: Virginia Public Access Project
The primary is only one month away, but most voters don’t even know — or care — about the election. Michael Pope reports.
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From NPR News- A man whose restaurant was raided by Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona gets $5 million October 21, 2021Maricopa County has settled with Bret Frimmel, who claimed that the-then sheriff's office defamed him and violated his rights as it investigated if some of his workers used fraudulent IDs to get jobs.
- Texas nurse convicted of killing 4 men with air injections October 21, 2021The jury deliberated for about an hour before finding William George Davis guilty of capital murder. Davis was accused of injecting air into four patients' arteries after they underwent heart surgery.
- U.K. police have charged a 25-year-old man with lawmaker David Amess' murder October 21, 2021Authorities say a 25-year-old British man of Somali heritage, Ali Harbi Ali, has been charged with murder and preparing acts of terrorism in the death of the Conservative lawmaker last week.
- Researchers put a date on when the Vikings arrived in Canada: exactly 1,000 years ago October 21, 2021It's long been known that the Vikings arrived in the Americas sometime before Christopher Columbus. Now, a new article in the journal Nature pinpoints the exact year: 1021.
- South Korea tests 1st domestically made rocket as it pursues satellite launch program October 21, 2021After relying on other countries to launch its satellites since the early 1990s, South Korea is now trying to become the 10th nation to send a satellite into space with its own technology.
- A man whose restaurant was raided by Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona gets $5 million October 21, 2021
- From BBC News
- Sir David Amess: Ali Harbi Ali charged with murder of MP October 21, 2021North Londoner Ali Harbi Ali, 25, has been charged with murder and preparing terrorist acts.
- Leak shows the countries trying to change climate report October 21, 2021Countries are asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.
- Covid: Doctors call for Covid Plan B to start in England October 21, 2021A doctors' union says ministers must reimpose measures such as compulsory face masks as cases rise.
- Vikings settled in North America in 1021AD, study says October 21, 2021Scientists say they have precisely dated a camp in Newfoundland, Canada, thanks to a new technique.
- US surgeons test pig kidney transplant in a human October 21, 2021The kidney, from a genetically-altered pig, appeared to function well, say the surgical team.
- Sir David Amess: Ali Harbi Ali charged with murder of MP October 21, 2021
