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The governor of Virginia asked the attorney general to investigate Loudoun County Public Schools over its handling of an alleged incident involving a transgender student in a boys’ locker room. According to Gov. Glenn Youngkin, three boys at Stone Bridge High School expressed concern about a transgender boy in the locker room in March, and that transgender student allegedly recorded cellphone video of their reactions. Now, a lawyer for one of the three boys says they're under a Title IX investigation for sexual harassment. Youngkin said he’s “deeply concerned” about how Loudoun County Public Schools handled the matter, but LCPS...

“I built the program from the ground up,” said Hart. Under Hart’s leadership, the aquatics center grew to host a thousand visitors per week… … Hart told 7News the trouble started last year when she arranged for five employees to get swim coach training in Florida. She needed everyone’s full legal name to book the plane tickets. Once they were booked, another employee shared the flight itinerary in a group chat. Hart said one of the staff complained because the plane tickets that were shared in the group had the person’s legal name, which did not match their gender identity....

Loudoun County has been the center of DEI clown world for quite a while now, and stories range from the horrible to ones like this that are just plain dumb. Yes, a teacher at Riverside High School is under investigation because he distributed a piece of raw cotton for students to examine, while giving a lesson about the invention of the cotton gin and slavery. I had a history teacher who conducted this exact exercise, and the tactile reinforcement has helped me remember the lesson he taught that day, even all these years later. (But I went to school back...

VIDEO Commies and their Democrat allies HATE transparency in government. They much prefer to work in secret so as to keep their real agenda out of the public eye. One of these odious types is one Arben Istrefi who in his role as vice chair of the Loudoun County (VA) School Board. Despite running for school board on a platform supporting "transparency" this lying weasel voted AGAINST the use of cameras at public meetings of the school board. He also tried to glom onto another government job by running for the Virginia House to be a Delegate but, fortunately, was...

County police are investigating an apparent burglary at the Trump for President 2024 campaign office in Virginia on Sunday. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said the burglary took place at Trump’s campaign office in Ashburn, Virginia.

The Loudoun County School Board has a concerning parallel to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in 1984. After voting to turn off the cameras during public comment this week, the district’s school board members are now considering additional measures to further limit and silence dissent during their meetings. The majority of the school board members would like to teach their beliefs, such as the acceptability of allowing males to use females’ school bathrooms and locker rooms, and suppress parents’ ability to say otherwise. On Thursday, Democratic-endorsed school board member April Chandler outlined more ways they might restrict parental input. Claiming...

ASHBURN, Va. (7News) — 7News has learned that portraits and photos of Loudoun County’s former commonwealth’s attorneys are missing. They were last seen when former Commonwealth's Attorney Buta Biberaj was in office. “The portraits and photographs of the previous commonwealth’s attorneys are a part of Loudoun County history. The county needs to have them back so that they can be appropriately preserved,” current Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Bob Anderson told 7News. The 1800s and there are no backup copies of many of them, according to multiple sources. In an email obtained by 7News, Loudoun County Administrator Tim Hemstreet wrote on...

Six Loudoun County residents who allegedly tried to vote twice in last year’s election are under investigation by Virginia State Police. Samantha Shepherd, a spokeswoman for the Loudoun County Office of Elections and Voter Registration, said the voters may have forgotten they voted early or by mail when they showed up at the polls on Election Day. Shepherd said the voters were issued provisional ballots, but their ballots weren’t counted when officials found they had already voted. A total of 141,012 voters casts ballots in Loudoun in November. “It’s not anything that diminishes the integrity of the system or the...

Fawad Fafa told police he was stabbed in the Dulles Town Center mall parking lot on Nov. 10, but police say he fabricated the story to cover up embezzlement. Fafa had a long cut on his arm and two smaller scratches on his forehead and leg, according to a criminal complaint filed by Detective Michael A. Grimsley of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. Fafa, who worked at the Sports Nation sporting goods store in the mall, initially said he was attacked but later admitted he invented the story, the complaint said. “He advised that he had self-inflicted the wounds with...

LEESBURG, VA – Voters in Loudoun County, Virginia, ousted Soros prosecutor Buta Biberaj, replacing her with Republican Bob Anderson as county attorney of the closely watched county. George Soros has wreaked havoc nationwide by funneling enormous sums of his vast wealth into lower-profile public offices with an outsized impact on the direction of the nation. Almost 20 years ago he started his SOS Project, focusing on electing leftwing secretaries of state because they are chief elections officers of their respective states, resulting in major reinterpretations of elections laws. This accelerated a leftward shift in voting laws that would result in...

A controversial far-left prosecutor in Virginia who's received enormous backing from liberal billionaire George Soros has been defeated despite significantly outspending her opponent. Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney Buta Biberaj, whom Soros has backed with nearly $1 million since 2019, lost to her Republican opponent, Bob Anderson, by 300 votes in a race that wrapped up counting its remaining ballots from last week's election on Tuesday evening, Fox 5 DC reported.

Republican candidate Bob Anderson claimed victory Wednesday morning in the race for Loudoun County Commonwealth’s attorney while leading incumbent Buba Biberaj by 0.76%, according to vote tallies. Anderson claimed victory in a post on X while leading by 1,021 votes, according to the Virginia Department of Elections, Fox 5 DC. Biberaj ran on an agenda of reducing incarceration in 2019, and received significant financial support from a super PAC funded by George Soros. Biberaj gained notoriety after she personally prosecuted Scott Smith, who was arrested during a raucous June 22, 2021 school board meeting in Loudoun County, for disorderly conduct....

A group of high school students walked out of their classroom in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Wednesday in protest at the district's policy on transgender bathrooms. Loudoun County Public Schools, which saw ugly scenes at board meetings following a May 2021 sexual assault by a boy in the girls' bathroom, adopted the trans bathroom policy in August 2021. The policy, officially termed 8040, was approved 7-2, and allows transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. On Wednesday, a group of students at Woodgrove High School in Purcellville marched out of class in protest at 8040,...

The father of a girl who was sexually assaulted in the bathroom of her Virginia school by a boy in a skirt has told of his relief at being pardoned by the governor for disorderly conduct - and told of his anger at being charged in the first place. Scott Smith went viral in June 2021 when he was wrestled to the floor by police and dragged out of a school board meeting over transgender issues. His daughter had been attacked in the girls' bathroom, and when he raised the issue, chaos ensued. He was subsequently given a 10-day suspended...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday granted an “absolute pardon” to the father who was arrested at a school board meeting after the superintendent lied about his daughter’s rape by a skirt-wearing boy. The pardon says that in June 2021, Scott Smith “exercised his constitutional right to attend a public meeting of the Loudoun County School Board to observe the proceedings, during which time a community member threatened to spread false and malicious information about Mr. Smith’s business with the intent to damage his reputation.” “After an ensuing verbal confrontation, Scott Thomas Smith was charged with Obstruction of Justice and...

A secret recording of a George Soros-backed, Northern Virginia prosecutor captured her railing against efforts to oust school board members following a rape coverup scandal, even though she insisted in court she was unbiased and capable of overseeing the recalls. Loudoun County prosecutor Buta Biberaj is heard on the recording blasting conservative activists who collected signatures to trigger a process in which the prosecutor is supposed to make the case to a judge that a politician should be removed. Parents believed that the far-Left prosecutor would deliberately botch the recall if she were in charge of it. The recording leave...

Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, say they have become targets of violent threats on social media for speaking out against the school district’s LGBTQ agenda. Brand said her organization, which she described as a 501(c)(4) that advocates for excellence in education, school safety and parental rights, has made activists online “very angry,” leading to “threats of death.” The “Loudoun Love Warriors” group includes members who appear to be associated with Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj, County Supervisor Juli Briskman, School Board Chair Ian Serotkin, school board member Brenda Sheridan, school board member Atoosa Reaser, school board member Erika Ogedegbe,...

Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) system has reportedly banned an unidentified teacher from adding a bible verse to her email signature. The teacher was barred from putting John 3:16 in her email signature, one of the most widely known bible verses that reads, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”The teacher is receiving help from the law firm Liberty Counsel, which noted that LCPS’s policy allows teachers to personalize their signature blocks with “personally-selected pronouns, quotations, pictures or phrases that are intended...

A Virginia prosecutor says that her office will stop its involvement in the prosecution of some misdemeanor cases. Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj wrote in a memo that her office is “inundated” and needs to focus more on felony and violent crimes, according to FOX 5. In the memo sent by Biberaj to judges on Dec. 30, 2022, she says that hit-and-run (property damage), reckless driving (under 90 mph), trespass, drunk in public, and eluding are among the offenses that will not be prosecuted by her office. The letter states that for these charges, her office could work with...

A Loudoun County father, whose arrest at a June 2021 school board meeting was used by the Biden administration to justify a politicized attack on concerned parents, was found not guilty of trespassing on Wednesday. Law enforcement arrested Jon Tigges at a Loudoun school board meeting on June 22, 2021, after he tried expressing concerns about the school district’s “moral decay.” A Virginia district judge found Tigges guilty in October of 2021. Loudoun Circuit Judge Douglas Fleming Jr., however, cleared Tigges of any wrongdoing.Fleming determined that Tigges not only had a First Amendment right to attend the heated meeting but...