Category: Virginia

Two Virginia College Officers Shot and Killed; Suspect Arrested

BRIDGEWATER, Va.—A gunman shot and killed two campus officers at a private college Tuesday, prompting a protracted campus lockdown and search before the suspect was apprehended, state police and school officials said. The lockdown began in the early afternoon when Bridgewater College officials sent out a tweet in warning students and faculty about a shooter…


Terry Schilling on CRT Indoctrination in American Schools: A Divided, Weak Future for the Country

America faces a future marked by division and weakness if its youth continues to be indoctrinated with anti-American ideologies like critical race theory (CRT) warned Terry Schilling, president of conservative advocacy group American Principles Project. An outgrowth of Marxism, CRT interprets society through a Marxist dichotomy between “oppressor” and “oppressed,” but replaces the class categories…


Virginia Superintendent Orders Students to Wear Masks in Violation of Governor’s Executive Order

Despite an executive order, signed into law by the governor, a Virginia public schools superintendent has ordered children to wear masks and principals to suspend any children who refuse to comply. The Public Message On Jan. 21, Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent posted two messages. The public message informed parents and students that the “regulation…


Public Universities Can’t Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines: Virginia Attorney General

New Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wrote in a legal opinion that public universities in the commonwealth cannot mandate students to receive COVID-19 vaccines or booster doses as a requirement to attend in-person classes. “Although the General Assembly specifically authorized public institutions of higher education to assist the Department of Health and local health departments…


Virginia Scraps Math Education Revamp Plan that Limits Calculus by 11th Grade

Virginia has scrapped a proposed education initiative many critics said would have limited student access to advanced math courses in the name of improving “equity.” The proposal, known as Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI), is no longer featured on the website of the Virginia Department of Education in the wake of the new Gov. Glenn…


New Virginia Attorney General Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Virginia’s new Republican attorney general is urging the Supreme Court to overturn its 49-year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade and return the regulation of abortion to the states, as observers await the court’s imminent decision in a challenge to a Mississippi abortion law. Against this backdrop, the Supreme Court has denied requests to stay the…


Afghan Evacuee Convicted of Molesting 3-Year-Old at Refugee Camp in Virginia

An Afghan national who helped U.S. troops in his home country has been convicted of molesting a 3-year-old girl at a Marine Corps refugee camp in Virginia. Mohammed Tariq, 24, was convicted by a federal jury on charges of abusive sexual contact, the Department of Justice announced this week. Tariq was spotted on Sept. 22…


New Virginia Attorney General Fires Jan. 6 Investigator From University Job

Virginia’s new attorney general has removed two lawyers from university positions, including Timothy Heaphy, who took a leave of absence from his job at the University of Virginia to serve as the chief investigative counsel for the House of Representatives panel investigating the U.S. Capitol breach. Victoria LaCivita, a spokesperson for Republican Attorney General Jason…


Virginia Schools Defy Governor’s Mask-Optional Policy, Isolate Students Who Refuse to Wear Mask

Some students in Virginia have been isolated from their mask-wearing peers after their parents sent them back to school without a mask per Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order, reports say. Jan. 24 marks the first day that Youngkin’s order took effect. Signed hours after the Republican governor assumed office, the order allows parents to “elect…


Justice Gorsuch Scorches Virginia City for Denying Church’s Tax Exemption

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch upbraided Fredericksburg, Virginia, for denying a tax exemption for two church leaders living in a church-owned house after it determined that the church’s own governing documents undermined its claim that they were ministers entitled to a tax exemption. Gorsuch was the sole dissenter from the Supreme Court’s Jan. 18 decision…