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Husband of missing Virginia mom charged with murder
A grand jury indicted the husband of a Northern Virginia mother missing since July on a first-degree murder charge Monday.
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House Foreign Affairs Chair McCaul ‘briefly detained' by police after appearing drunk at airport
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told NBC News he recently “made a mistake” mixing Ambien and alcohol ahead of a flight and was “briefly detained” by police.
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‘Slave' texts telling people to ‘pick cotton' sent to DC, Virginia and Maryland residents
People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the election that told them to report to plantations to pick cotton.
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Supreme Court's conservative justices allow Virginia to resume purge of voters from rolls
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
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Smithsonian displays 1st humanoid robot to go to the International Space Station
NASA is no stranger to spacefaring robots. But “Robonaut 2,” the first human-shaped robot to fly to the International Space Station, is something special. The robot is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy center in Virginia.
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Dog found alive in rubble nearly a week after Virginia home exploded
Six days after a powerful explosion leveled a home in Haymarket, Virginia, a dog was found alive in the rubble, fire officials say.
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What Floridians can learn about Virginia's ‘confusing' marijuana system ahead of Amendment 3 vote
NBC6 travels to Virginia to get a better sense of the pot industry and its future as Floridians get ready to vote on Amendment 3.
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Amendment 3: Looking at the marijuana industry in Virginia
When it comes to marijuana, like Florida, the commonwealth of Virginia also approved medical use. But the state also allows people to grow their own plants and those in favor of legalizing pot say this set-up has created confusion. NBC6’s Hatzel Vela traveled to Virginia to show us how that state’s situation could help you figure out how to vote...
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‘It was 100% intentional': Killer's confession to 1994 murder of Virginia mom
“I’d probably be a serial killer,” Stephan Smerk recently said after the brutal 1994 killing of Robin Lawrence in West Springfield.
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Justice Department sues Virginia over effort to reduce voter rolls close to Election Day
The DOJ lawsuit — the second of its kind against a state in less than a month — argues that Virginia is in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
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Boar's Head to ‘indefinitely close' Virginia plant tied to listeria deaths
After a deadly listeria outbreak stretched across 18 states and killed at least nine people, Boar’s Head will “indefinitely close” the Jarratt, Virginia, meat plant tied to the outbreak.
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99th annual Pony Swim draws thousand in Virginia
Thousands of people gathered in Virginia to watch Chincoteague wild ponies make their annual swim across the Assateague Channel on Wednesday
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Shenandoah National Park hiker murder case solved after deaths of 2 women in 1996
Nearly three decades after the murders of two women in Shenandoah National Park, the FBI says they now know who was responsible for the horrific crime.
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No lie: Perfectly preserved centuries-old cherries unearthed at Mount Vernon
Dozens of bottles of centuries-old, impeccably preserved cherries and berries from the cellar of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia have been discovered during an archaeological dig.
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WATCH: Suspected drunk driver hits trooper during traffic stop
A video shows the moment a suspected drunk driver hit a trooper who was speaking to another driver.
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Virginia NAACP filing suit against school board that restored names of Confederate leaders
The state chapter of the influential civil rights organization argues that restoring the names of the pro-slavery military figures created “an unlawful and discriminatory educational environment for Black students.”
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Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names.
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Video: Dump truck slams into overpass in northern Virginia
The raised bed of a dump truck slammed into an overhead ramp on westbound Interstate 66 Monday, but remarkably, no one was injured.
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2 Miami-Dade men arrested in connection with large cigarette heist in Virginia
A pair of Miami-Dade men have been arrested in connection with the heist of a large shipment of cigarettes in Virginia last month.
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‘Proud dad': Parents praise son, 6, for sacrificing self to try to save brother during fatal fire
A Virginia boy who died of smoke inhalation from a house fire earlier this month could have escaped but chose to protect his 3-year-old brother.