Republicans’ chances of retaking the US Senate were boosted on Tuesday when the governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice, cruised to victory in that state’s primary, the highest-profile result on a night of such votes. Justice is overwhelming favoured to beat his Democratic challenger, Glenn Elliott, and fill the US Senate seat now held by […]
WASHINGTON — Derrick Evans, a Jan. 6 rioter who admitted in court that he committed a felony crime against police officers when he stormed the Capitol while yelling “Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!” lost a Republican primary race against Rep. Carol Miller in West Virginia, NBC News projects. Evans pleaded guilty to a felony […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Voters across Maryland and West Virginia will decide key primary elections Tuesday with big implications in the fight for the Senate majority this fall. At the same time, President Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump hope to project strength in low-stakes presidential primaries, while further down the ballot, two congressional […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Incumbent Rep. Carol Miller has seen plenty of political challengers throughout her long, popular career, but perhaps not one as boisterous as Derrick Evans, her opponent in Tuesday’s Republican primary in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District. Evans was a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and […]
Republican candidates for governor in West Virginia have been competing in a tight race — not only to take over the state’s highest office but also to surpass one another in their commitment to attacking LGBTQ+ rights, in particular, for transgender people. State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, former state Delegate Moore Capito and businessman Chris […]
(NewsNation) — A school board in rural Virginia voted to reinstate the names of Confederate generals for two schools four years after the names had been removed, making it the first district in the nation to reverse course after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. On Friday, the Shenandoah County school board voted 5-1 to […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — When West Virginia Republicans vote in Tuesday’s primary, they will have a hard time finding a major candidate on the ballot in any statewide race who openly acknowledges that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Embracing or skirting the line on election denialism has become an unspoken checkoff among Republicans […]
A North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper shot a Virginia driver on Saturday who pointed a handgun at the officer after a pursuit that ended in Farmville, Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Knox said. Knox identified the driver as 35-year-old Virginia Beach resident Kenneth Charles Kinard. The Highway Patrol didn’t immediately release the trooper’s name but […]
The names of Confederate military leaders will be restored to two public schools following a school board vote in Shenandoah County, Virginia. By a 5-1 vote, the school board reversed a 2020 decision to change the names of schools, which will once again honor traitorous generals who fought for slavery: Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee […]
Four years after removing the names of Confederate leaders from two schools, a Virginia school board has decided to reverse that decision. In a 5-1 vote Friday, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to restore Mountain View High School’s name to Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary School to Ashby-Lee Elementary School. In […]
An all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd. The decision to restore the names of Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Turner Ashby was taken […]
By Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) – The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals’ names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidly Republican district, becoming the first in the U.S. to take such an action. By a 6-1 vote, the […]