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January 4, 2022

Critics quick to blame Glenn Youngkin for icy I-95 crisis -- despite not being in office yet

Virginia's Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin doesn't take office until Jan. 15 – yet some critics Tuesday tried to blame him for a 179-mile-long traffic mess on Interstate 95.

January 4, 2022

Interstate 95 traffic jam: Virginia authorities say rain before snow prevented pretreatment with ice melt

Miles of Virginia’s stretch of Interstate 95, a major East Coast artery that’s often a traffic nightmare in good weather, froze in place for nearly a full day after a blistering snowstorm swept through the region Monday.

January 4, 2022

Kamala Harris ripped for tweeting 'America is moving again' with hundreds stranded on I-95

Vice President Kamala Harris was mocked on social media Tuesday after claiming that the United States is “moving again” thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure spending as hundreds of motorists were stranded on Virginia’s I-95 due to a winter storm.

January 4, 2022

Virginia I-95 winter storm disaster leaves hundreds stranded: ‘This is unprecedented’

The Virginia Department of Transportation is warning drivers to stay away from Interstate 95 Tuesday morning so crews can free up hundreds of drivers who remain stranded or in slow-moving traffic in temperatures well-below freezing, in what officials are describing as an “unprecedented” event.

January 4, 2022

I-95 winter storm traffic disaster: Drivers are fuming and demanding answers from Virginia officials

Traveling only 31 miles in 12 hours on Interstate-95 is an experience that Joseph Catalano never could have imagined being part of his family’s post-Christmas trip to Disney World.

January 4, 2022

Stranded I-95 driver describes ordeal, walking dog to pass 'four-hour' standstill

Drivers left their cars on interstate I-95 to walk their dogs, one source told Fox News.

January 4, 2022

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine among stranded in I-95 winter storm disaster, says he’s been stuck 19 hours

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine revealed Tuesday that he has been stuck 19 hours and counting in the Interstate-95 traffic disaster that has stranded hundreds of travelers outside of the nation’s capital.

January 4, 2022

I-95: Drivers trapped for hours on Virginia interstate as temperatures dropped during the overnight

Hundreds of drivers have been stranded on the I-95 in northern Virginia for hours Tuesday morning after the region was slammed with a major snowstorm—prompting some people to turn off their engines or even abandon their vehicles to look for shelter, according to a report.

January 1, 2022

Virginia teachers union mocked for grammatical errors in COVID-19 letter

A Virginia teachers union has faced ridicule online after it sent a letter riddled with grammatical and typographical errors. The union president explained that the union mistakenly published a draft, rather than the completed letter.

December 30, 2021

Ownership of Richmond's Confederate monuments will transfer to Black History Museum

Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., and Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Thursday that state and city governments had reached an agreement to transfer the ownership of the recently removed Confederate monuments to the Black History Museum.