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Officials at the school in Newport News where a 6-year-old shot his teacher had been alerted and searched the child’s backpack before the shooting, but couldn’t find the gun… The General Assembly considers a bill that would end solitary confinement for prisoners... A state task force says lawmakers need to do more to address problems with recycling….

Governor Youngkin announces his energy plan, mostly opposed by Democrats and environmentalists, but there’s some common ground, too… Candidates for Congress are debating around the state, including Cline and Lewis in the 6th District… Albemarle County election officials say the Virginia Department of Elections sent out a wrong address for early voting….

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….

More than 1,570 people have been federally charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. NPR tracked each case from the initial charges through sentencing.

Six banks, including Citigroup, Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, will pay regulators more than $4 billion to settle charges they manipulated the currency exchange market to boost profits.

Prosecutors are seeking 33 years for Tarrio. Also set to be sentenced later this week are Tarrio's codefendants: Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola.

Over the past decade, the government has been paying farmers to keep their land covered with native grasses instead of crops. But as grain prices have risen, the conservation reserve has shrunk by more than 25 percent. This decline in native grasslands means more soil erosion and less habitat for wildlife.

From purple carrots and cabbage to grapes, the food industry is finding new ways to derive natural colors from plants. It's happening just as consumers are pushing Big Food to ditch artificial colors.

These midterm elections show why it's always important to never assume you know exactly what's going to happen in advance – and to keep an open mind for potential surprises.

The ATF has been able to trace the smuggled guns' original purchasers in less than half of the 73,684 cases cited in the report.