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Loss, sacrifice, service: How 9/11 changed Americans' lives
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (79+ words) WHRO - On Air Now Playing WHRO FM - Classical - On Air Now Playing WFOS - The Time Machine Radio Loss, sacrifice, service: How 9/11 changed Americans' lives Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Here & Now has received dozens of voice memos and…...
Virginia nursing homes are short-staffed. So are the agencies tasked with watching them.
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (1390+ words) When Susan Fanning broke her ankle, she could no longer use the bathroom on her own. At her Chesapeake nursing home, she recalled waiting more than three hours in a wet incontinence brief for someone to change it. Other times,…...
'Multiple patients' after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (196+ words) Updated September 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM EDT There are "multiple patients" after a cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday, according to local fire officials. It's not clear whether anyone was killed in the incident. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said there…...
Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right critic of U.S. immigration, is deported from U.S.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (339+ words) The far-right British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who enthusiastically supported President Trump's immigration crackdown, has been arrested and deported for allegedly living in the U.S. illegally. In a separate statement to NPR, the Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos was deported back…...
Remembering Dolly Parton on The Acoustic Highway
2+ week, 2+ day ago (155+ words) WHRO - On Air Now Playing WHRO FM - Classical - On Air Now Playing WFOS - The Time Machine Radio Remembering Dolly Parton on The Acoustic Highway The Acoustic Highway remembers the Queen of Country Music Dolly Parton on this week's program. Her…...
Lambert’s Point coal terminal now features 1,500 feet of living shoreline
2+ week, 4+ day ago (441+ words) Behind the constant chug of coal trains, Norfolk Southern’s terminal at Lambert’s Point fronts a large stretch of the Elizabeth River. Pam Boatwright first visited about 20 years ago and remembers it was in rough shape. “It was like an old…...
Federal judge says Virginia still failing to follow voter restoration order
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1339+ words) A federal judge says Virginia officials incorrectly applied his order in a landmark voting rights case ruling that found the commonwealth had wrongly kept people with certain felony convictions from the ballot box for more than a century. As a…...
Democratic National Committee taps Virginia for early 2028 presidential primary
2+ week, 6+ day ago (723+ words) Many Virginians are accustomed tocasting a ballot every year, but Virginia voters may not be prepared for the commonwealth to welcome an onslaught of candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. Last weekend, the Democratic National Committee approved its early…...
Must schools named after Confederates change after the Shenandoah schools ruling?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (781+ words) A federal judge ruled this month that Shenandoah County must remove the names of Confederate generals from two of its schools, names the school board had removed in 2020 and re-added in 2024. Judge Michael Urbanski ruled that resurrecting the names discriminated…...
Alongside Kiggans, US House Speaker says Virginia's 2nd District ‘will determine the fate of the country’
3+ week, 5+ day ago (679+ words) This story was reported and written by our media partner the Virginia Mercury. As part of an 18-state tour through more than 30 congressional districts, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said Monday that “Virginia’s 2nd District will determine the fate of the…...