A Virginia man will spend 15 years in prison after being convicted on federal drug trafficking charges in New Jersey. Djavon Holland was convicted of two counts of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl in April. He was sentenced to 180 months in prison and four years of supervised release on Monday. Investigators arrested Holland after he drove from Virginia to New Jersey several times to sell fentanyl to an undercover ATF investigator.
A Virginia judge has declared three Black men innocent of charges that led to their lynching more than a century ago. Charles Allie Thompson, William Thompson and William Grayson were hung in Culpeper County in the 1800s and early 1900s. Each man was pulled from jail by a violent mob while they awaited trial. The Washington Post reported last week that Judge Dale B. Durer found the men were innocent because they were denied due process. Durer said the cases can teach important lessons about history by illustrating "the evil corners in which humanity can dwell."
Governor Glenn Youngkin says Virginia has received approval to use over a billion dollars in federal funding to expand rural broadband access. Thomas Cage with more.Preview: Graduate students are getting ready to move into a new building in Alexandria. Virginia Tech's Innovation Campus at Potomac Yard is still under construction, but students will start using Academic Building One next month. The 11-story building will also house collaborations between educators and the private sector, with Qualcomm's Thinkabit Lab program among the first tenants.