A man from Lexington was among the servicemen killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday… The ACLU is suing officials in Culpeper County over the use of county resources to enforce federal immigration laws… Looks like championship-winning JMU football coach Mike Houston is leaving to coach the team at UNC-Charlotte next season….

Governor Northam says his new appointees to the state’s Air Pollution Control Board will be seated after a controversial pipeline vote for construction in Buckingham County… Virginia State Police say 12 people were killed in traffic wrecks during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend… Hog farmers may soon be harnessing energy from pig poop….

Lawyers for James Alex Fields, Jr. say that he may claim self-defense in the car attack that killed Heather Heyer, as jury selection begins… A clinic in Charlottesville is the first in Virginia to offer treatment to pregnant women trying to break opioid addictions before they give birth… A former TV reporter from Roanoke will serve seven years in prison for soliciting a minor online….

British guitarist and songwriter, Richard Thompson , has been making music and records since the mid-1960s, first with Fairport Convention , a band known for merging traditional English folk songs with rock instrumentation, and then as a solo artist in 1972.

Some form of sports betting could soon be legalized in Virginia… As jury selection begins in the trial of the man accused of killing Heather Heyer, we speak with two women injured in that August 2017 car attack in Charlottesville, planning to testify at the trial of James Fields….

Harrisonburg officials may allow residents to rent their homes through Airbnb without a permit, but there's a catch… Those work requirements that were a key part of the negotiations making Medicaid expansion possible in Virginia? – they’re causing some problems… A deep look at the Equal Rights Amendment, and Virginia’s potential brush with constitutional history….

Another halt on construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, this one from the Army Corps of Engineers… Richmond moves toward an agreement to allow Bird and Lime scooters in the city… Animal welfare advocates say be careful what you share with your four-legged companions while you’re feasting on Thanksgiving Day….

JMU’s Marching Royal Dukes are in New York City for their fourth appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Will it provide an ultimate stage for the band’s biggest tuba prankster? WMRA’s Andrew Jenner reports.

Charlottesville's city council wants to set its own members' salaries, but it needs the General Assembly's approval… Virginia's new Democratic delegation in the House will be pivotal in deciding whether Nancy Pelosi will again be Speaker… The JMU Marching Dukes are performing again this year in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, but will the band’s tuba-playing prankster steal the show?

In October, reports by ProPublica and the New York Times highlighted racial disparities between whites and non-whites in the nation’s public schools. A companion story in the Times focused on the wide gap between whites and blacks in Charlottesville city schools, and cited the Southern legacy of Jim Crow and segregation. One way of measuring the gap is looking at disparities in who is enrolled in Advanced Placement courses. WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz looks at some of the results in the