17,000 unemployment claims could be dismissed and more Va. headlines

The State Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)

• The Virginia Employment Commission notified almost 17,000 applicants seeking unemployment benefits that their claims will be dismissed over missed deadlines unless they can provide a valid explanation by Thursday.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• Towing companies are asking Virginia lawmakers to raise the fees they’re allowed to charge motorists in response to inflation and rising fuel costs.—VPM

• Some Fauquier County residents are going all out to try to stop an Amazon data center that might be coming to their area.—Washington Post

• Lee Enterprises, the parent company of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and many other Virginia newspapers, is “telling some employees they will need to take a two-week, unpaid furlough or accept a salary reduction.”—Axios

• A banner year for acorns meant Virginia hunters shot fewer deer, turkeys, and bears than the year before.—WFXR

by Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

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