Controversial Youngkin comments on Pelosi attack and more Va. headlines

The state Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)

• Gov. Glenn Youngkin didn’t back down from a controversial stump-speech comment he made about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. “There’s no room for violence anywhere, but we’re going to send her back to be with him in California,” the governor said.—Washington Post

• Federal prosecutors said they lacked evidence to prove that one of the men Richmond police connected to an alleged Fourth of July mass shooting plot actually intended to carry out the potential violence police described.—WRIC

• Republican congressional candidate Yesli Vega was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, an announcement her campaign didn’t seem eager to promote.—Prince William Times

• After Tazewell County voted to keep a Confederate monument outside its courthouse, a muralist added portraits of influential Black citizens to the courthouse’s blank brick wall.—Cardinal News

• A Texas woman’s efforts to trace the lives of enslaved ancestors uncovered Richmond’s long-forgotten Shockoe Hill African Burial Ground. “It was simply shoveled under roadways and scraped aside to make room for bridges. There was no respect.”—Washington Post

• Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson’s lesser-known retreat in Bedford County, has a new exhibit on the lives of enslaved people who worked at the plantation.—News & Advance

• Brandon A. Williams, the stepson of a Hampton Police official, claims Norfolk police retaliated against him by failing to charge an alleged drunk driver who crashed into him. Williams had accused a Norfolk police officer of lying about him in an earlier trespassing case.—Daily Press

• A Newport News pastor running for the city council is under investigation for allegedly campaigning during church services.—Daily Press

• Attorney General Jason Miyares, Dominion Energy, and environmental groups say they’ve struck a deal  to make sure ratepayers aren’t stuck with outsized bills to pay for Dominion’s offshore wind project.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• More than a dozen people were rescued after a fishing boat collided with a container ship off Virginia’s coast.—CNN

• “Everything is not awesome: Why Virginia lags the South in big industrial deals.”—Virginia Business

• A Covington man pleaded guilty to destroying TV cameras and other media equipment during the Jan. 6 attack.—Roanoke Times

by Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

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