Stonewall Jackson rides again. On Thursday, the Shenandoah County School Board, which had wiped away the names of Confederate generals from its schools in a 2020 vote, restored the names of Jackson and two other Virginia-based Confederate generals to its schools, according to WHSV-TV. The vote means that what has been known as Mountain View […]
Four years ago in the summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic and the George Floyd protests, the Shenandoah County, Va., school board met virtually and voted 5-1 to change the names of Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High. Both schools were named after Confederate officers, and in the climate in 2020, […]
The Shenandoah County Public Schools board voted 5-1 Thursday to revert the names of two schools in Quicksburg, Virginia, to those of Confederate officers during the Civil War. Mountain View High School will once again be called Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary School will return to Ashby Lee Elementary School. The latter […]
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, is leading 24 other states in filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over its new regulations for power plants. The new rules, finalized by the Biden administration and released last month, would require new natural gas power plants and existing coal-fired power plants to slash nearly all […]
A pair of House Republicans are questioning why the D.C. Metro Police Department refuses to clear out the pro-Palestinian encampments on the George Washington University campus. In their letter, Republican Reps. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina and James Comer of Kentucky said they were “alarmed” by reports that the police department rejected university officials’ request […]
Bodies believed to belong to a mother and daughter not seen since August 2000 were found in a backyard in West Virginia hours after their suspected killer died Monday. Susan Carter was 41 then, and daughter Natasha “Alex” Carter was 10. At the time of the disappearances, the mother was in a custody dispute with […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Concerns about hazing have prompted the University of Virginia to terminate one local fraternity and suspend three others on its Charlottesville campus, the school said Wednesday. The university said in a statement that the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter had “engaged in serious hazing behavior.” The school said it decided to terminate its […]
Twenty-five states have approved measures barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s scholastic sports, but West Virginia could become the first to have its law taken up by the Supreme Court. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced he will ask the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of the 2021 Save Women’s Sports Act […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Tuesday that he is dropping his bid for Virginia governor in 2025 and will instead run for lieutenant governor. “After careful consideration with my family, I believe that the best way to ensure that all Virginia families do get the change they deserve is for […]
West Virginia has a law that prevents transgender boys from competing on girls’ athletic teams. However, one transgender athlete challenged the law because he began to “transition” when he was in third grade and never reached puberty. A federal judge agreed. “The defendants cannot expect that [this athlete] will […]
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