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In today’s WFIR News Express:

• A store clerk shot during a robbery in Vinton — two suspects arrested

• Roanoke overspent $5 million — and broke state law doing it

• Lynchburg Council kills a plan to double hotel taxes

• Congressman Ben Cline defends Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

• The Senate passes a new “No Tax on Tips” act

• Roanoke Lebanese Festival returns this weekend

• Broadband expansion hits a legal roadblock

• Early voting begins across Virginia

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