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Dominion seeks to expand rate program designed to shift grid demand

As concerns over the electric grid’s ability to meet those demands increase, Dominion Energy is proposing to expand a program intended to incentivize customers to shift when they use electricity to lessen the load on the grid and cut down on their bills at the same time.

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Virginia crab management committee recommends fall, spring catch limit increase

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,...

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Florida Man Who Said He Was Headed to CIA Arrested Near Virginia Preschool with AK-47 Rifle in Car

A Florida man who police say had an AK-47 rifle in his car was arrested outside a northern Virginia preschool after he told officers he was headed to CIA headquarters, police said Wednesday.

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A Republican Lawmaker Delivered Doughnuts to Teachers. Then Came a Political Food Fight

The doughnut deliveries to 19 schools in the Williamsburg-James City County and New Kent County school districts were accepted. But — in a sign of the intensity of Virginia’s political debates over K-12 public schools — some in the Williamsburg-James City County system saw an ulterior motive hidden beneath the glaze and sprinkles.

FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. A fake image purportedly showing an explosion near the Pentagon has been widely shared on social media, sending a brief shiver through the stock market. But police and fire officials in Arlington, Va., said Monday, May 22, 2023, that the image isn't real and there was no incident at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
FACT FOCUS: Fake Image of Pentagon Explosion Briefly Sends Jitters Through Stock Market

Police and fire officials in Arlington, Virginia, say an image that circulated about the Pentagon under attack is not real and there was no incident at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters across the Potomac from the nation’s capital.

The Fairfax, Va., office of Rep. Gerry Connelly, D-Va., is shown on Monday, May 15, 2023, after police said a man with a metal baseball bat walked into the office, asked for Connelly, and then struck two members of his staff with the bat. Fairfax City Police in northern Virginia said in a tweet that a suspect is in custody and the victims are being treated for injuries that are not life-threatening. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Virginia Man Charged in Baseball Bat Attacks on Three Women, Including Congressional Staffers

A man with untreated schizophrenia, according to his father, was arraigned Tuesday on charges involving baseball-bat attacks on three women, including two staffers for U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly.

Law enforcement investigate after an attack at the office of Rep. Gerry Connelly, D-Va., in Fairfax, Va., Monday, May 15, 2023. A man with a baseball bat walked into Connolly's Fairfax office, asked for him, and then struck two members of his staff with the bat, police said. Fairfax City Police in northern Virginia said in a tweet that a suspect is in custody and the victims are being treated for injuries that are not life-threatening. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Man Attacks Virginia Congressman’s Office and Assaults Staffers With Baseball Bat

On Monday morning, a man wielding a metal bat attacked Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly’s Fairfax district office. Two members of Connolly’s staff were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, and the assailant is in custody.