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US average mortgage rates under 3% for first time since Feb.
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Mortgage rates fell for the third straight week, dipping below 3% for the first time in two months. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the benchmark 30-year home-loan rate declined to 2.97% this week from 3.04% last week. At this time...
Grim list of deaths at police hands grows even after verdict
Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight during a confrontation. The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who was swinging a knife during...
Amazon planning new fulfillment center, promising 1,000 jobs
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amazon is planning to build a new distribution center in suburban Richmond that state officials expect will create 1,000 new jobs. The company will construct a 650,000-square-foot facility near the Richmond Raceway in Henrico County that will...
Northam rolls back restrictions on bar seating
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has rolled back restrictions on bar seating that have been in place since the start of the pandemic. The changes were contained in an amended executive order signed Wednesday, The Virginian-Pilot reported. ...
Grim list of deaths at police hands grows even after verdict
Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight during a confrontation. The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who was swinging a knife during...
Three men accused of slaughtering goats sentenced to prison
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Three men who participated in the slaughter of two goats in Virginia last year have been sentenced to at least three years in prison, according to a prosecutor. Andrew J. Haefele, 37, Donald Ray Compton Jr., 35, and Charles E. McKinney, 35,...
Man hospitalized after being shot by Virginia deputy
SPOTSYLVANIA COURTHOUSE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia deputy shot and wounded a man after responding to a 911 call about a domestic disturbance early Wednesday morning, authorities said. Sgt. Brent Coffey, a Virginia State Police spokesman, wrote in an email that the deputy...
Virginia city fires police officer over Rittenhouse donation
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Virginia city of Norfolk has fired a police lieutenant after news reports that said he donated to and expressed support for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of killing two people during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer. ...
Virginia agrees to absentee ballot option for blind voters
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia election officials have agreed to permanently provide an absentee ballot option for blind voters. The agreement comes after several voters with disabilities, the American Council of the Blind of Virginia, and the National Federation of the...
Official: Virginia mental hospitals dangerously full
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia mental hospitals are struggling with dangerously high numbers of patients, a state official told lawmakers this week. The census numbers are prompting the facilities to delay admissions and are straining law enforcement's ability to...
