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The new director of Charlottesville's animal shelter asks volunteers involved in previous protests over alleged abuse there to stay away during the summer… A dental clinic in Amherst and four others around the state each get $200,000 to improve dentist accessibility… Can AI prevent pedestrian traffic deaths?

The Shenandoah Valley is now in a moderate drought, and is among the driest regions in Virginia… A woman incarcerated at Middle River Regional Jail in Verona has died… Virginia’s primary election is Tuesday, and Jeff Schapiro joins us to discuss some historical examples of incumbents who have been unseated in primaries….

A suspect is in custody after a Wintergreen police officer is fatally shot in a struggle… Some Republican candidates for seats in the General Assembly continue to push former President Trump's lies about a rigged 2020 election… We explore what Afton is doing with its COVID relief money….

Parts of Charlottesville find their neighborhood sprinkled with homophobic and anti-transgender flyers… In this era of more common mass shootings and gun violence, some local fire departments are investing in body armor… We follow up yesterday’s report on the use of federal COVID relief funds in Afton with a tour of Scottsville, just south of Charlottesville….

Today is the deadline for environmentalists to object to the new federal budget agreement that clears the way for the Mountain Valley Pipeline… Critics of the superintendent of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind start a petition to oust her… A new, multi-faceted art space comes to Staunton…

A federal judge rules against the Fishersville-based company Nexus in a major lawsuit… Virginia is the eighth state to pull out of a national, bipartisan voting collaborative that’s been the target of right-wing conspiracy theories… Jeff Schapiro reviews the week in politics and state government….

Two members of Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly's staff are hospitalized after being attacked by a man with a baseball bat at their Fairfax office… Experts say Virginia’s exit from a national, bipartisan voting data collaborative could leave the state with less accurate voter rolls… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad explains why most of Virginia’s public universities are raising tuition, after years of holding the line….

A man charged with attacking two staffers for Representative Gerry Connolly with a baseball bat is also being charged with a hate crime in an earlier attack… By one estimate, Virginia would stand to lose 35,000 jobs if the federal debt ceiling is breached… We meet the helicopter pilots who use giant flying saws to trim vegetation along power lines in rural areas….

An animal rights group says a farm in Virginia that raised chickens for Tyson Foods mistreated its animals… Virginia’s Teacher of the Year is a history teacher at John Handley High School in Winchester… Virginia’s lawmakers are among those worried about a potential default on the nation’s debt, and Jeff Schapiro joins us to discuss that and more in the week in state politics….

A UVa task force finds that late payments to graduate students in January were mostly due to miscommunication over deadlines... A federal judge in Virginia rules that the government cannot bar 18- to 20-year-olds from buying handguns from licensed dealers... Virginia’s Republican Attorney General defends his decision not to join the Republican-led lawsuit against the abortion pill mifepristone....