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The number of dead now stands at 18 as the aftermath of Hurricane Michael is assessed. But authorities warn that there will likely be more bodies discovered as rescue workers dig through the rubble left by the storm.

Officers arrested a man at a Virginia grocery store on Saturday after people witnessed him pull down his pants and rub his buttocks against items in the produce section, police said.

Leslie Cockburn, the Democratic candidate for Virginia’s fifth congressional district, said during a speech in Virginia on Sunday that President Donald Trump has “made it acceptable to be a racist again.”

A video shared on Twitter by WeatherNation shows a funnel cloud touching down and destroying the roof of an auto parts warehouse outside Richmond, Virginia.

“Get out of its way. Don’t play games with it. It’s a big one, maybe as big as they’ve seen,” Trump said.

“The safety of American people is my absolute highest priority. We are sparing no expense,” Trump said on Tuesday.

Virginia State Senator Richard H. Black (R-Loudoun) has been accused of regurgitating Syrian propaganda by saying in an Arab TV interview that he believes British intelligence is preparing a chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians, which it will then blame on dictator Bashar Assad as a pretext for military action.

The town of Lexington, Virginia, is attempting to recover its image after the town’s Red Hen restaurant denied service to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

Citizens of Gainesville, VA, are reportedly being made to pay for Amazon’s $172 million power line installation, after local protesters successfully fought the lines being installed through their properties and a Civil War battlefield.

Twitter this week suspended InfoWars host Alex Jones for seven days for what it said were violations of its policies, following Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify’s simultaneous banning last week.

The Norfolk Sheriff’s Office in Norfolk, Virginia, let loose on Monday, joining multiple law enforcement agencies in the U.S. taking the #LipSyncChallenge going viral on social media.

President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies loomed large over Saturday’s heated U.S. Senate debate in Virginia, as Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine faced off with avowedly pro-Trump Republican challenger Corey Stewart.

Virginia’s Lee County school district voted to arm teachers and pay for their guns and training. Lee County is the first in the state to allow teachers  to be armed.

The story of Danville is one echoed in countless communities across the country, a gutted middle class left for dead in the wake of sweeping international trade deals in Washington, applauded by liberal economists and a lockstep media portraying such policies as inevitable, ultimately good, and a win for the American consumer–a narrative usually coupled with condescending and disdainful attitudes toward displaced workers for a perceived inability to sprint ahead with the times.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe responded to President Donald Trump’s nomination of federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh Monday night, warning that Kavanaugh will turn the Supreme Court into a “political arm” of the GOP.

DC Comics’ Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot shocked kids at a children’s hospital in Virginia with a Friday visit in full superhero costume during a break in filming for her second solo action film.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced on Monday that his Senate campaign raised nearly $1.3 million in the second quarter of 2018.

Gov. Mike Huckabee said Monday on the Laura Ingraham Show that even after Red Hen restaurant owner Stephanie Wilkinson threw his daughter Sarah Sanders out because she worked for President Donald Trump, she also stoked a protest at a nearby business where some of Sanders’ party had relocated.

A man allegedly flew from New Zealand to meet a 14-year-old girl in Goochland County, Virginia, brought pepper spray to her home and was shot by her mother.

Eleven alleged members of the murderous El Salvadorian MS-13 gang have been hit with murder charges in connection to the deaths of two American teenagers in the sanctuary city of Fairfax County, Virginia.

The City Council of Alexandria, Virginia, voted on Saturday to remove the name of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the city’s Jefferson Davis Highway after considering the move for three years.

Environmental officials are advising northern Virginians to be on the lookout for the toxic “giant hogweed.”

Republican Governor Larry Hogan announced on Tuesday that Maryland would cancel the deployment of four National Gaurd members to the border, while Democrat Governor Ralph Northam said four soldiers and a helicopter will return to Virginia.

Fresh off his Tuesday primary victory, GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia Corey Stewart appeared on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily Wednesday morning where he was able to tout a presidential endorsement.

Late counted votes from Northern Virginia put populist nationalist Senate candidate Corey Stewart over the top in the Republican primary to face incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).

A grand jury in Virginia has indicted actress and activist Rose McGowan on one felony count of cocaine possession.

Deputies rescued a 7-month-old girl whom authorities issued an Amber Alert for this week when she was reportedly abducted at a Virginia gas station.

Virginia National Guard Soldier Joshua Philip Yabut has been arrested following the alleged theft and subsequent chase of an armored vehicle into downtown Richmond, Virginia.

Authorities have issued an AMBER Alert for a seven month old girl reportedly abducted by an armed sex offender at a gas station in Virginia early Monday morning, police said.

Virginia’s Republican Senate voted Wednesday to expand Medicaid, which will likely make Virginia the 33rd state to expand Medicaid.

A doctor who slipped his girlfriend the abortion pill in her tea has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to fetal homicide.

A contentious GOP convention to select the party’s nominee in Virginia’s 6th Congressional District ended with a move towards unity when Del. Ben Cline was nominated by acclamation on Saturday.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar pointed to short-term and association health plans during Friday’s White House press briefing as possible solutions to Obamacare and health insurance premiums reaching new heights.

A restaurant manager turned up unannounced to a woman’s house at 10:00 p.m. after she left a negative review of her order from the restaurant on Yelp.

A statue of Thomas Jefferson was vandalized on the campus of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, with graffiti calling him a “racist” and “rapist.”

A proposed City of Richmond School Safety resolution asked Congress to extend gun-free zones while demanding that teachers be left unarmed.