Randi B. Hagi
News Reporter, Assistant News EditorRandi B. Hagi first joined the WMRA team in 2019 as a freelance reporter. Her work has been featured on NPR and other NPR member stations; in The Harrisonburg Citizen, where she previously served as the assistant editor;The Mennonite; Mennonite World Review; and Eastern Mennonite University's Crossroads magazine.
Randi grew up bouncing around the East Coast with roots in West Virginia. Outside of the media world, she has also worked in restaurants, managed the kitchen at the nonprofit Our Community Place, and raised ducks and sheep. You can contact Randi at hagirb@jmu.edu.
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A federal judge already decided the Shenandoah County School Board violated the First Amendment when they reinstated Confederate names on public schools. The court is still considering whether they broke other laws in the process. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi spoke with the school board's lead attorney about the case and filed this report. -
A man wanted by the FBI who crashed on Interstate 81 fleeing state troopers in February has been indicted on state and federal weapons and drug charges. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. -
Representatives for the NAACP, Shenandoah County students, and school board appeared in federal court in Harrisonburg on Tuesday to present closing arguments over the reinstatement of Confederate names on two schools. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. -
Hundreds of people got free medical care in Fishersville this weekend, when the national nonprofit Remote Area Medical set up a pop-up clinic at the Augusta Expo Event Center. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi visited and filed this report. -
As Virginia's data center industry booms, its demands for land, water, and electricity continue to grow. The National Parks Conservation Association has published a report about how this development threatens the mid-Atlantic region's natural resources. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. -
Augusta County officials held a cornerstone ceremony on Monday at the new courthouse, which is in the final stages of construction. Its opening will mark a new era in a county that predates the U.S. government. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. -
The man convicted of killing two women in Harrisonburg in 2021 and transporting their bodies in a shopping cart is undergoing neuropsychological testing ahead of sentencing, which has been scheduled for May. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. -
A shared-use commercial kitchen in Charlottesville provides a fully-equipped facility for weekend culinary entrepreneurs and established caterers, bakers, pizza chefs, and more. Recent state and federal grant awards will help the social enterprise expand. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. -
Automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, are widespread across our broadcast region and the nation. Harrisonburg is the latest local city to face pressure from grassroots groups to remove the technology from public streets. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports in the first installment of a two-part series. -
Una mujer del condado de Rockingham cuya agresiva detención por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional fue grabada en vídeo en octubre ha llegado a un acuerdo con el gobierno por el que se desestimará el cargo de resistirse al arresto después de tres meses. Informa Randi B. Hagi para WMRA.
