News Express 1-23-25

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has announced that Christopher Brown was sentenced to 10 years of incarceration for charges including distributing fentanyl. Current Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott tells the Virginia Scope while he is focused on his work in D.C., he still ‘has not ruled anything out’ regarding a potential primary challenge against Abigail Spanberger for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Twenty Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies were in Washington DC on Monday to provide security for President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Its been an eventful two-and-a-half days so far in the second term for President Donald Trump. Virginia's Senior US Democratic Senator spoke out yesterday on aan executive order regarding illegal immigration enforcement. Virginia U.S. Senator Tim Kaine was disappointed in pardons from both outgoing President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, but he says they are "infinitely different." Efforts to enshrine Virginia’s “right-to-work” laws in the Commonwealth’s constitution failed Tuesday in the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee. Efforts to enshrine Virginia’s “right-to-work” laws in the Commonwealth’s constitution failed Tuesday in the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee. One of Roanoke’s new electric buses made an unexpected cross-country journey. The Roanoke Rambler reports that instead of being shipped on a flatbed trailer, a driver took the bus from California to Virginia, stopping at charging stations along the way. Some Roanoke City residents are discussing who they would like to see fill an open seat on city council. 11 applicants are currently looking to fill a seat on Roanoke City council that is vacant after Joe Cobb was elected mayor back in November. Raymond Cotter, an engineering teacher at Roanoke City’s Charles W. Day Technical Education Center, is a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.Cotter will receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation. He is one of 336 teachers around the nation selected and only one of six teachers that was selected from Virginia.