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A local advocacy group discusses a potential post- Roe v. Wade future… Some citizen members of the Harrisonburg-area community criminal justice board say they’re being locked out of committees… Republicans in several parts of Virginia, including the 5th district covering Charlottesville, will choose their congressional candidates this weekend….

The baby formula shortage is affecting families here in Virginia, and we focus on how moms – and state and federal officials – are responding… A new state historical marker in Charlottesville recognizes the first Black student in UVa’s law school… In state politics, budget negotiations continue and some Republican congressional districts have primaries this weekend, and Jeff Schapiro will be along to discuss it….

The Salvation Army removes the two captains in charge of Harrisonburg operations, after we reported allegations of mismanagement… A brother and sister recount the threats and violence they experienced integrating Warren County High School… Nurses from UVa’s COVID Clinic say the Critter Cams from the Wildlife Center of Virginia helped get them through the darkest days of the pandemic….

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project was abandoned nearly two years ago – could the Mountain Valley Pipeline meet the same fate?... Virginia's U S. Senators want to create a National Scenic Area in the George Washington National Forest… Even as four-year and community-college enrollments decline, more students are signing up for technical education….

Dominion gets pushback from Virginia’s attorney general on its plans for a massive offshore windfarm… The Virginia Education Association says it will publish state education equity guidelines that the governor has rescinded… State agriculture officials are concerned that Russia's war on Ukraine is affecting a key import….

Workers at the Hershey plant in Stuarts Draft vote against a union… James Madison’s Montpelier strips power from a group of descendants of those enslaved there…. We have a look at efforts to vaccinate those few Virginians who still don’t have a COVID shot….

After a leak indicating the U.S. Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade, what is the future for abortion access in Virginia?... The avian influenza outbreak prompts extraordinary measures at the Wildlife Center of Virginia… After a surge in adoptions during the pandemic, animal shelters in our region are filling up again with adult dogs brought in as strays – but also as their owners surrender them….

A Fishersville man accused of participating in the January 6th insurrection gets a hearing in court… Senator Tim Kaine weighs in on the Supreme Court leak of an opinion on Roe v. Wade… New data highlight health disparities between high-earning and low-earning communities….

The recent death by suicide of a JMU student-athlete was not the first such death on campus this year… Harrisonburg’s vice-mayor says he will not seek re-election… We have our weekly Virginia politics review, dominated this week of course by the debate over abortion access….

The health district for the Charlottesville area ends its drive-through COVID testing clinics, a sign of a waning pandemic, and disappearing funding… As the debate over abortion is renewed, the Republican candidate for Congress in the 7th district makes controversial, and false, statements about pregnancy… Good news from UVa researchers for people on dialysis struggling to manage blood sugar levels….