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An 11-year-old boy from Virginia spent his summer selling lemonade, not to get the latest and the greatest toy, but to raise money to donate more than 22,000 diapers to single mothers.

A man has founded a vehicle parade called the “Birthday Brigade” in his Virginia community designed to help kids of all ages celebrate their birthdays during the coronavirus pandemic.

Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is offering a course entitled “How to Overthrow the State,” which includes encouraging students to engage in “producing a Manifesto,” and “writing a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is spending heavily on ads to fortify his standing in battleground states that Democrats won in 2016.

The Virginia Senate passed legislation on Wednesday that would allow assaulting a police officer to only be a misdemeanor charge and remove a mandatory jail sentence for the crime. 

An illegal alien has been charged with killing a young man in a drunk driving crash in Chesterfield County, Virginia. 

Officials in Richmond, Virginia, have approved a proposal for a 200-foot mural bearing the phrase “Black Lives Matter” to be painted near the state’s capitol building.

An illegal alien wanted for allegedly murdering his wife was found living in the Richmond, Virginia, area by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. 

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) — a prominent advocate of the “Trump-Russia” collusion storyline — is a “rubber stamp” for the “far-left” Democrat Party, said Daniel Gade, the Republican Party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate seat from Virginia. He joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday to discuss the political state of play in Old Dominion and across the nation with host Joel Pollak.

A man charged with rape and later released on bond because of the “risk of contracting” coronavirus allegedly shot and killed his accuser.

Virginia Commonwealth University suffered at least $100,000 worth of damages on campus as a result of a protest that took place over the weekend. Protesters claimed that they were demonstrating to draw awareness to the ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon.

Former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) is in a dead heat with freshman swing district Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), according to a poll released Monday.

Nearly 10,000 criminal illegal aliens turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency have been arrested and deported from a single county in Virginia since 2007, new data reveals. 

Public schools in Richmond, Virginia, will not reopen their doors this fall following a decision from the Richmond School Board, which voted to kick off the year with an entirely virtual experience for students.

Nick Freitas told Breitbart News Saturday that Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) abandoned Virginia’s police amid the leftist movement to defund the police. 

A mail carrier in Virginia’s Pendleton County has pleaded guilty to election fraud, reportedly altering the party affiliation on absentee ballot requests, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia, announced this week that it is reevaluating its “wasp” mascot over concerns that it does not support the university’s promotion of “diversity and inclusion.” The mascot was allegedly deemed offensive by some over its loose relationship with the term “WASP,” or white anglo-saxon protestant.

Work crews ventured to the heart of Richmond, Virginia, where they removed the statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart on Tuesday, one week after the city’s mayor ordered all Confederate monuments on city property be removed.

Snuggled in between universal background checks, a one-handgun-a-month purchase limit, and other Virginia gun controls that took effect last week, is a law that allows Virginians to ban themselves from gun purchases.

Virginia gun sales surged 157 percent during the month of June as Virginians reacted to coronavirus uncertainties, protests and riots, and the steady growth of gun control under Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) Democrat-led state government.

An American flag was removed from a construction site in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday after officials claimed it was a potential target for protesters. 

Virginia Democrats are eager to declare open season on law enforcement by downgrading an assault on a police officer from a felony to a misdemeanor.

A second incumbent Republican has lost his primary race after backing a plan that would have allowed India to monopolize the nation’s employment-based green card system while rewarding Big Tech for outsourcing American STEM jobs. 

Virginia Republican Nick Freitas, a candidate for the state’s seventh congressional district, announced Monday that he had raised over $1 million since declaring his candidacy last year.

Mayor Levar Stoney announced Richmond Police Chief Will Smith’s resignation on Tuesday, following a violent response to the ongoing protests.

Virginia Beach native and Grammy-winning pop superstar Pharrell Williams has teamed with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to announce the official declaration of June 19, “Juneteenth,” as a state holiday.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Tuesday said that he will propose making Juneteenth — a cultural holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved black people in the United States— a paid holiday in the commonwealth. 

Conservative outsider Bob Good unseated Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District GOP primary in an upset that pit an “America First” immigration agenda against the conservative beltway’s record on the issue.

Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) has finished with fewer votes than challenger Bob Good in Virginia’s Republican nominating convention on Saturday. 

Protesters on Wednesday evening beheaded four statues on a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, after the monument was defaced with spray paint hours earlier. Protesters told on-scene reporters that one man was badly injured after one of the toppled statues fell on his head.

A deed signed in 1890 that gave Virginia control of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond prevents its removal, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

A judge on Monday temporarily blocked Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s order to tear down a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be removed “as soon as possible” from Richmond’s Monument Avenue, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) will announce the state plans to remove the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, according to the Associated Press. 

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Monday rejected a request from the Trump administration to send his state’s National Guard to help quell heated protesters and riots in Washington, D.C., sparked by the death of George Floyd.

The chief of the Richmond, Virginia, police department said Sunday that rioters set fire to a multi-family home with a child inside while blocking access for firefighters to get through to save the child.