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A recent study examined whether LED road lighting affects how well people fall – and stay – asleep;The Walmart Chesapeake where six people were killed in November re-opened this/Wednesday morning;Some people in Winchester try to loosen the hold that illicit substances have on the region;And Shenandoah National Park will kick off National Park Week with free admission for all patrons

Almost six years after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a grand jury has indicted several participants;The Virginia Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal regarding the denial of early release for some people incarcerated in the commonwealth;The Virginia Department of Elections is working to remove a long list of now-deceased voters from the voter rolls;And opinions are divided over who will own a massive new offshore wind farm in Virginia

Volunteers will be cleaning up several stretches of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River this weekend; after months of debate, Virginia’s Board of Education adopts new K-through-12 history standards; The challenges of getting into, and sticking with, substance use treatment; and as money pours in for the fall General Assembly campaigns, Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

One of the people carrying a torch in connection with the 2017 Unite the Rally in Charlottesville faces felony charges… Virginia's maternal mortality rate surged during the pandemic… This year’s General Assembly elections are attracting record amounts of campaign cash….

A trailblazer of school desegregation in Charlottesville, one of the women featured in WMRA’s Voices of Integration series, returns to her hometown to address a women’s leadership forum… Virginia’s top elections official attended a conference in February apparently sponsored by conservative groups aimed at tightening voting laws… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad talks about the rich people from elsewhere spending money on Virginia’s election campaign this year….

A new report lists a range of fixes for the embattled Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA to address alleged mismanagement and animal mistreatment… The fate of a statue of Robert E. Lee is still in limbo in a court in Charlottesville… And, in a tale of love amid the difficulties of navigating the child welfare system, the story of how one family in Stuarts Draft was made….

A grand jury has indicted the mother of a six-year-old who shot his teacher in Newport News, and lawmakers formally commended the teacher for her actions that day;Health care professionals in Virginia say they will continue to supply Mifepristone, unless otherwise instructed by the FDA;A class action lawsuit has been filed against the United Network for Organ Sharing in Richmond;And the city of Harrisonburg has begun renovating its 20-year-old skatepark – but not the way the skateboarding community wants it done

The mother of the first-grader who allegedly shot his teacher in Newport News has turned herself in to authorities;A federal judge in North Dakota has temporarily blocked federal regulations in Virginia and 23 other states intended to protect thousands of waterways;Charlottesville City Council earlier this week approved a 22 percent increase in the city’s budget;And the General Assembly has concluded its one-day reconvene session

A free healthcare clinic returns to the Valley, with dental, vision and medical services… The family of Irvo Otieno has more questions about how and why the 28-year-old was taken to jail while he was having a mental health crisis… Two years after Virginia abolished the death penalty, a minister who accompanied 28 men to the electric chair has written a memoir about that experience….

Two men escape from a Farmville jail, and one is considered extremely dangerous… Dominion Energy wants to reduce rates for customers… The engineering department at VMI enlists a robot to do battle with ticks….