Politics

The Republican-controlled board will meet Thursday to appoint a new registrar. The current registrar had figured in a 2020 court case over some ballots being processed without a Republican representative present.

Jody Pyles, a country musician, associate pastor, martial arts instructor, and body armor sales rep , takes on the incumbent in a Republican mass meeting on June 3.

Virginia senators and House members weigh in on the negotiations as the June 1 deadline to raise the debt limit approaches.

The directive to track the presence of illicit drugs marks an evolution in wastewater monitoring. This would be the first time Virginia has moved from infectious disease monitoring to drug surveillance.

He won a second-ballot, come-from-behind victory. The district runs from Appomattox County to Goochland County. The heavily Republican district has no incumbent and, so far, no Democratic candidate, which would make winning this Republican convention tantamount to election.

The judge wrote that the defamation claim against Bridgette Craighead and Black Lives Matter Franklin County lacks “foundation in fact or law,” and he ordered that their attorney fees be paid by the plaintiffs.

Del. Emily Brewer of Suffolk and Hermie Sadler of Emporia are both running in the 17th state Senate District June 20 primary.

The two Republicans have been drawn into the same district and now battle it out in for the party’s nomination in a June 20 primary.

Del. Matt Fariss, R-Campbell County, is charged with malicious wounding after an alleged hit-and-run in March.

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Garrett is attempting a comeback after stepping away to recover from alcoholism. He faces Kevin Bailey and Jennie Wood in a convention on May 20.