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Virginia school board meeting on transgender policies ends in chaos Protesters were removed and arrests were made at a Roanoke County School Board meeting on new transgender policies. WSLS' Connor Dietrich reports.

VIDEOIf you ever think one person can't make a difference then I urge you to watch this stunning speech by Gabrielle Powell, a high school student, who helped convince the Roanoke County School Board to vote to lift the mask mandate on January 27, 2022.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Republican Party of Virginia filed a petition looking to compel the Roanoke County Registrar’s Office to follow proper election procedures regarding the pre-processing of absentee ballots on behalf of Roanoke County Republican Chairman Dan Webb in the Roanoke County Circuit Court. Earlier this week Chairman Webb learned that the Roanoke County Registrar’s office had begun pre-processing over 9,000 returned absentee ballots without notifying the Roanoke County Republican Committee that this process had started. This violates Va. Admin. Code 20-70-40 requiring the registrar provide sufficient notice to the political parties to enable them to have authorized...

A misunderstanding of Virginia’s independent cities and counties apparently led a nonprofit voter registration group to mail 587,638 absentee ballot applications to Virginia voters that asked them to send the ballot back to the wrong election office. The Center for Voter Information said the mishap was an honest mistake mainly affecting voters in a handful of localities that share a name: including Fairfax City and Fairfax County, Richmond City and Richmond County, Roanoke City and Roanoke County, and Franklin City and Franklin County.... The mass mailing, which involved more than 2.2 million pre-filled absentee ballot applications statewide, sowed confusion for...

Four men accused of planning to kidnap two Roanoke County women and hold them for ransom were indicted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke. Joshua Kasongo, 19, of Roanoke; Mohammed Hussein Guhad, 19, of Roanoke; Luke Musa Elbino, 19, of Vinton; and Anthony Eugene Muse, 18, of Roanoke are each charged with conspiring to kidnap and attempted kidnapping. Guhad and Muse are students at Patrick Henry High School. Elbino is a student at Virginia Western Community College.