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Threat of ICE raids creates...

Although President Trump walked back his order to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct mass...

Eviction outrage

More than 100 people representing a dozen organizations rallied and marched in support of residents of Belmont...

Unequal justice

To the list of racial disparities in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, we can add arrest rates: According to a...

UPDATE

Governor Ralph Northam was in Charlottesville today to announce a budget amendment that would end the automatic...

Punishing

Things were looking good for opponents of Virginia’s automatic suspension of driver’s licenses for nonpayment of...

Prosecutors pump the brakes...

A lawsuit to help prevent those unable to pay court fines from spiraling into further debt and prosecution got a...

In brief

Knock, knock. Who’s [not] there? Sears. Sweethaus. Performance Bicycle. And Brown’s Cleaners, just to name a few...

In brief

Driver’s license suspensions under siege A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction December 21 and ordered...

‘Modern-day debtors’ prison’

It’s a tough argument to make: That a woman with three children who makes around $9 an hour, who can’t buy enough...

Suspended licenses

It’s not just bad driving that has caused nearly 1 million Virginians’ licenses to be suspended. Failure to pay court...