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The candidates in the 6th Congressional District meet in Lexington for their final debate… Today is the final day to submit online comments in response to the governor’s proposed policies regarding transgender students… That national school report card released this week shows that Black and Hispanic students, and English language learners, saw the steepest declines….

One person is dead after a second weekend of gun violence on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall… Governor Youngkin rejects the CDC’s guidelines on COVID vaccines for kids… Some parts of Virginia will get new funding to crack down on gang violence….

Felony murder charges will go ahead against the man accused of killing two Bridgewater College officers earlier this year… 5th District Representative Bob Good faces off against his Democratic challenger on the debate stage… We go hiking up Shenandoah Mountain, where a local 'conservation photography' class has been documenting biodiversity….

Police say the Harrisonburg man charged with shooting eight people early Sunday morning was targeting one person… We tour the huge Fishersville Antiques Expo… It’s not just the Cavaliers and Hokies, college football in Virginia is big business, and Roben Farzad joins us to talk about it….

One virus puts about 58,000 children and three times as many elderly people in the hospital every year, and it’s not COVID… One UVa professor takes issue with the stereotype of young people as apathetic, and not interested in voting… One drive-by Halloween display in Staunton is raising money for a good cause….

The Virginia Department of Elections finds thousands more voter registrations unprocessed;The process for college admissions is changing in the wake of the pandemic;Sample ballots presented outside polling places are often the product of party advertising;And young voters from both sides of the aisle want the government to do more about climate change

With less than two weeks left in Virginia’s election season, we’re talking election security, vote counting, and also politics with Jeff Schapiro… Mary Baldwin University eliminates tuition for low income students… In our latest episode of Folklife Fieldnotes, we profile The Chosen Few and Reverend Tarrence Paschall, keeping the tradition of African American a cappella religious music alive in Virginia….

Students at Harrisonburg High School walked out of class on Monday to support transgender students;State Senator Amanda Chase says she’ll introduce a bill to ban all abortions in Virginia;With the final day of voting less than a week away, Democrats and Republicans clash over Social Security and Medicare;And the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport has a new commercial carrier

Virginia’s top elections official apologizes for voter registration errors, the centuries old suspicion of midwives in Virginia, Donald Trump’s latest endorsement, and confrontations at polling locations….This is the WMRA Daily for Monday, October 31st...