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A former cop from southwest Virginia gets one of the longest prison sentences yet for storming the U-S Capitol on January 6th… Senator Kaine visits the Winchester area to promote local education and infrastructure projects… Charlottesville residents reflect on life there five years after the Summer of Hate, and what remains to be done….

Community groups and clergy lead a walking vigil in Charlottesville to mark a reclamation of their city, five years after Unite the Right… Thousands of low and moderate income Virginians may soon be able to power their homes with shared solar panels… Medicaid expansion in Virginia is still not reaching many dental patients who need care….

A Basye woman is safe, but the man suspected in her abduction is still on the loose… We focus on politics and the mid-term elections, including our weekly review with Jeff Schapiro… Even as they battle election misinformation, registrars in Virginia say the number of early voters is high this year….

Charlottesville puts in place new personnel policies after a city employee attended the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol building… The candidates for Virginia’s 5th District will have their only debate next Wednesday… A regional program protecting bird populations is entering its second year….

After allowing a wave of COVID-19 among detainees early in the pandemic, the immigrant detention center in Farmville is now barred from detaining more than about one-quarter of its capacity… A UVa law professor studies the long-term effects of incarceration on individuals and society… Now that the Supreme Court has mostly done away with the constitutional right to abortion, advocates worry that marriage equality could be next….

LGBTQ advocates put pressure on the Virginia Supreme Court, the results of a new Medicaid survey, a monkeypox update, crocodile eggs, and the latest installment of Folklife Fieldnotes…This is the WMRA Daily for Friday, July 29th…

Cameras to monitor classroom content, better fitting naval uniforms, the closure of a 172-year-old flour and feed mill, and a local veterinarian loses his license…

Augusta Health releases its latest community needs assessment;The Department of Parks and Recreation closes Chris Greene Lake due to a harmful algae bloom;Virginia’s Attorney General joins others in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture;And the Chincoteague Pony Swim returns for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic

The Page County woman who threatened bringing guns to school to keep her kids from wearing masks in January gets community service and deferred probation… Get ready to hear a lot more about abortion over the next year or so, and we’ll have reporting on that, plus our weekly analysis… And lots more, including a look at local hemp industries, and our sixth episode of Folklife Fieldnotes….

Governor Youngkin amends state law on early release for prisoners, and as a result thousands of Virginia inmates will serve more time… A commitment to ban polystyrene foam to-go containers gets pushed back… The governor warns federal officials that an offshore wind project could cause millions of dollars of damage to commercial fishing….