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It may be hard to say goodbye to the lazy days of summer, but it’s easy to say yes to crisp fall weekends filled with pumpkins. 

Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout. Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon.

The once white-hot housing market may finally be starting to cool, but it’s not a buyers’ market just yet.Stacker cited data from Redfin and the U.S. Census Bureau to visualize and explain the shortage of U.S. homes for sale and what that means ahead of peak homebuying season.

In response to being indicted for his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s campaign called the charges “fake” and compared his plight to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

Despite being fully funded by the legislature, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Department of Education has halted a program that disseminates grants to help teachers of color overcome financial barriers as they seek full teaching accreditation. Meanwhile, Youngkin’s much-touted Learning Acceleration Grant program has reportedly left both parents and educators feeling frustrated and helpless.

A total of $9.8 million will help Lynchburg City Schools purchase 25 zero-emission school buses, which will hit the road later this year.

by Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury A state committee on crab management is recommending increases to crab catch limits this fall and next spring but keeping in place the summer reductions instituted last year after surveys found the population had plummeted. The newest proposals follow the results of the 2023 Bay-wide Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey,…