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Solar projects disturbing more than 10 acres of top-tier soil have to put land in conservation easements under new state regulations.
Ramin Fatehi won a competitive primary, essentially clinching another term as Norfolk’s top prosecutor since no one else has filed to run against him.
Mal Vincent was a popular movie critic at The Virginian-Pilot, who passed away in 2021. He helped start a summer series at the Naro Expanded Cinema, which continues in his honor.
Four clubs set up together in Hampton for 2025’s annual amateur radio field day.
The ecosystem spanning more than 3,200 square miles remains a largely natural landscape, but population growth could make that hard to maintain, according to a new report.
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- Camp Mystic, now in ruins from Texas floods, was a pillar for generations of women
- A bus route helped this couple's cross-border romance bloom. Tariffs are shutting it down
- Over 50 dead from July 4 floods in Texas, schoolgirls missing from camp
- Tropical Storm Chantal brings heavy rains into northeastern South Carolina
- At least 67 dead in catastrophic Texas flooding and 11 missing from girls camp

Turn: Washington's Spies
Long Island farmer Abraham Woodhull is recruited by the Colonial Army to spy on the British.
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Music celebrating America on this week's program with artists Simon and Garfunkel, Ron Fetner, Amy White and plenty of others
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Music from Trampled by Turtles, Old Crow Medicine Show, Ronnie Bowman and Levon Helm to be featured
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Three men who are doing their part to make the region a better place and a history lesson on America's 250th anniversary
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