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A fair warning for your next trip to the liquor store: Several states across the U.S. are still experiencing booze shortages related to COVID-19, and it's unclear when supply will be able to meet demand. Early in the pandemic, it was common to find libations low in stock after some liquor stores briefly closed amid statewide lockdowns and skyrocketing consumer demand for alcohol. But continued reports of shortages from Vermont to New Jersey to Ohio persist more than a year later, and some states are rationing their liquor supply amid ongoing supply chain issues. The Pennsylvania state board in charge...

There are many reports of 'boom-like' sounds associated with a couple of fireball sightings from northern Virginia around 14:30 UTC on September 17 (10:30 EDT). It's possible this event produced meteorites in the northern Virginia/eastern West Virginia area. The currently available data are insufficient to determine a trajectory, but a strong fireball-like signature shows up at 14:24 UTC in the GOES 16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data, permitting an estimation of the energy of this event.1 A comparison to a previous fireball with good ground and GLM data puts the brightness of this morning's meteor at magnitude -12, the same...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A man robbed in Richmond pulled out a gun and shot his assailants, Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett. One of the men died as a result of the shooting, the other was taken to the hospital. The incident happened Friday afternoon along the 1100 block of Commerce Road in South Richmond. The wounded men drove away after the shooting. They were later found less than a mile away near East 18th Street and Fairfax Avenue.

A 20-year-old Triangle man who was fatally shot last month by a Dale City woman in what police determined was a justified act of self-defense has been connected to five recent armed robberies at area 7-Eleven stores, police said Monday. The man, identified as Azhar Laurent Smart, 20, of Triangle, was found by police suffering a gunshot wound at 12:25 a.m. on Thursday, July 22, outside a home in the 4100 block of Hoffman Drive, a residential area off Prince William Parkway near the Sheetz gas station, according to a news release issued at the time. Smart was shot by...

After the longest war in our country’s history, the United States is on the verge of ending its open involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. As we wind down these wars, our nation owes a great debt to those who volunteered to serve. Our technology, politics, and culture look a lot different than they did 20 years ago, and our Veterans Affairs should look different too. Our country’s newer veterans need an adaptable, agile, and flexible VA to meet their needs. However, the VA has shown it is neither adaptable nor flexible despite Congress approving new authorities and massive increases in...

In a recent online poll conducted by ROCC, 98% of respondents voted in favor of conducting a forensic audit of the 2020 Henrico County results. In an effort to restore confidence in our elections, we, the Republicans of Orange County Committee, call for a full forensic audit of Henrico County’s 2020 election.

Email thread in which a local editor comes up with ever changing excuses on why she won't cover the Republicans of Orange County Committee call for a forensic audit of Henrico County's 2020 election.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday become the first federal agency to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated. President Joe Biden confirmed the move in a brief statement to reporters Monday afternoon. 'Yes. Veteran Affairs is going to in fact require that all docs working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated,' Biden said, following a report quoting his Veterans Affairs secretary regarding health care workers at the VA. 115,000 staffers will have two months to get inoculated against the coronavirus, and face being fired if they do not oblige. President Biden confirmed...

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According to CNN, the Biden administration is moving to make gender change surgery available through Veterans Affairs hospitals starting as early as this summer.The previous policy made other gender transition services available through the VA, including hormone treatments and counseling. The surgery would be available to active duty and reserve personnel as well as those eligible through their VA benefits.In 2018, the Defense Department counted 14,700 transgender military personnel currently serving or in the reserves. It’s unknown how many soldiers would opt for what’s known as “gender transition” surgery.Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough will announce the change in policy at...

On Sunday, AZGOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward Tweeted an outstanding Arizona audit update. Kelli Ward: “WA, GA, VA, PA, NV, UT, CO, WI, OK, AK, MI, SC, MO have all recently visited the first full forensic audit of an American election – THIRTEEN states. #AmericasAudit is soon to be #AmericasAudits! Arizona is leading the way to #ElectionIntegrity in America.” 13 states have now toured the historic Arizona audit with hope of all 50 states doing the same! Requests to review this audit have been coming in droves and more states are expected to tour the audit this week, as it...

Virginia will be the next state to send delegates to visit Arizona’s Maricopa County forensic audit of the 2020 election, National File understands. A number of delegates from various states have visited the forensic audit currently taking place in Maricopa County of the 2020 election results. As National File reported, the states who have sent delegates to visit so far are Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Alaska and Colorado. Many of these delegates included pro-Trump state legislators, who may end up advocating for a forensic audit of the election results in each of their own states. In a series of tweets, Arizona...

The results of Tuesday's 2021 Democratic primary make it completely clear that the extremist abortion views of the last four years will continue into this year’s elections. All three winners of this primary hold radical positions on abortion, including allowing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and turning a blind eye to infanticide if a baby survives an abortion. None of the three winners condemned Gov. Northam’s comment in 2019 that indicated how a baby who survived an abortion could be killed after birth. Former Governor Terry McAuliffe, the winner of Tuesday’s primary for Governor, is on record as...

A Loudoun County, Virginia, elementary school teacher who was placed on administrative leave in May for refusing to affirm transgender identity in children was reinstated by a judge Tuesday. Byron “Tanner” Cross, who teaches physical education at Leesburg Elementary School, secured a temporary injunction from Judge James Plowman in his lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), according to an announcement from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which defended him. “BREAKING: Tanner Cross, a Virginia elementary school teacher and ADF client who was suspended for raising concerns to the board about a proposed gender policy, has won a temporary injunction and...

Sign our petition to the Loudoun County Public School board For the second time in as many months, the Loudoun County Public School board has come under fire. This time, teachers and parents are speaking out against the district's policy of requiring staff to recognize and sanction transgenderism by using pronouns that don't fit the biological make-up of students. Last week, AFA asked you to support Fight for Schools, a group of parents pushing to recall six of nine LCPS board members for implementing the very dangerous and Marxist Critical Race Theory.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Newport News Police held a press conference Tuesday after there was an exchange of gunfire between a man and officers earlier that day. Police Chief Steve Drew says the incident took place at Port Warwick after officers were trying to track down a wanted man. At 10:45 a.m., officers were attempting to serve a fugitive with outstanding warrants from James City County who was located in a local apartment complex. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew identified the suspect as 22-year-old Deston Coward. "They originally saw him in the apartment complex over here around Thimble Shoals,...

There are millions of Americans dependent on government support who are trapped, addicted to government entitlements, and subsidies. This support keeps them from taking full responsibility for their own lives and taking advantage of the opportunities America provides for those willing to work hard to achieve their dreams of success. As with any recovery group, there are steps needed in order for recovery to be realized. Recovery is a slow process of personal empowerment that combines the power of admission, recognition, and peer group support with the reliance on a higher power outside ourselves. The Seven Steps of Victims Anonymous...

The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office in Virginia released body camera footage and 911 audio Friday night of the recent officer-involved shooting of a 32-year-old Black man. The recordings appeared to show the deputy mistook a cordless house phone held by Isaiah Brown for a gun before the deputy shot him repeatedly.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — For nearly a year, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration has been facing questions about the work of the five-member state parole board.