Friday, March 21, 2025

Good morning! On this day in 1617, Pocahontas was buried at St. George's Church in Gravesend, England. The Powhatan princess had married colonist John Rolfe and was visiting his country when she took sick and died. She was about 21 years old.

The governor has until Monday to sign or veto hundreds of measures passed by the legislature this year. His first batch of actions leads our Top Stories.

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Bill Signing Begins in Richmond

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed 180 pieces of legislation and announced that he plans to sign or veto hundreds more bills ahead of Monday's deadline.

"My filter here is really focused on bills that are good for Virginia business," Youngkin said. "There is a substantial amount of bipartisan legislation that moves us forward."

State legislators passed almost 1,000 measures during their 2025 session, some of which are identical to proposals Youngkin has vetoed in the past. The governor can sign a bill, veto it, allow it to become law without his signature, or send an edited version back for further consideration.

Among the measures signed were bills to expand Virginia's Business Ready Sites Program and to designate fusion as a clean energy source.

Two Students Arrested at Bayside High School

Virginia Beach police detained two students from Bayside High School after receiving reports on Wednesday about a potential threat.

Police said a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were charged with possession of a weapon on school property.

The school was locked down and searched by police after a report that there may have been a gun on campus, but no firearms were found.

Some parents complained that the school was too slow in informing them of developments during the lockdown.

Visit a Garden this Weekend

If you're looking to get out into nature now that it's spring, plenty of gardens are available to visit across the Commonwealth.

Southern Living compiled a list of its top eight gardens in Virginia. The smallest is the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum in Lynchburg. Further west, the magazine recommends seeing the native species growing at the Mill Mountain Wildflower Garden in Roanoke.

The story also highlights Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria in Northern Virginia, and suggests that those in Hampton Roads should check out the 175-acre Norfolk Botanical Garden.

Central Virginia is blessed with two top gardens: Maymont, a 100-acre property, and the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, where fresh bulbs are planted each year.

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➤ Richmond: Attorney General Jason Miyares co-led a coalition of 26 states in filing an amicus brief to a federal appeals court, asserting that a judge's restraining order is "preventing the immediate deportation of violent noncitizen Tren de Aragua gang members." (Details)

➤ Virginia Beach: Some residents protested as city crews began removing trees from Pleasure House Point. The city plans to convert the property, which was created when dredged material was dumped there 50 years ago, back into a wetland. (More)

➤ Statewide: High schoolers can resume taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test, which can be used to determine school accreditation. Testing had been on hold for weeks because of a presidential executive order that limited travel by members of the Defense Department. (Details)

➤ Blacksburg: The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors is scheduled to meet next week to consider a draft resolution that would dissolve the university's Office for Inclusive Strategy and Excellence, following a similar action by leaders at UVA earlier this month. (More)

➤ Abingdon: Virginia Highlands Community College opened the Paramont Applied Technology and Workforce Center, aimed at teaching students technical skills for the 21st-century economy. (Details)

➤ Charlottesville: The University of Virginia (UVA) rounded out its class of 2029 by extending offers to 1,642 students. More than 64,000 people applied during the three phases of the process, a new record for undergraduate applications. (More)

➤ VCU, seeded No. 11, lost to BYU 80-71 in the men's NCAA basketball tournament. The A-10 Conference champion Rams finished at 28-7. (Details)

➤ William & Mary's women's team, seeded No. 16 in the NCAA tourney after a run through the CAA tournament, beat High Point 69-63 in a First Four game. They'll play No. 1 seed Texas on Saturday night. (More)

➤ Norfolk St. earned a No. 16 seed in the NCAA men's basketball bracket and faces No. 1 seed Florida in Raleigh tonight. (More)

➤ Liberty men's basketball won the Conference USA tournament championship, nabbing a No. 12 seed in the NCAA tourney. The Flames tip off against No. 5 Oregon in a late game tonight. (Details)

➤ In the women's NCAA tournament, Liberty is a No. 13 seed and faces No. 4 seed Kentucky at noon today, while Richmond earned a No. 8 seed and plays No. 9 Georgia Tech this evening. (Schedule)

➤ Norfolk St., a No. 13 seed, plays No. 4 seed Maryland tomorrow in women's hoops, while No. 11 seed George Mason drew No. 6 seed Florida State tomorrow evening. (Bracket)

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➤ Sheetz, which operates convenience stores, said it will hire more than 365 store team members, supervisors, and assistant managers across the state. On-site hiring events are scheduled for March 26. (Details)

➤ The new head of Suffolk's Economic Development Department is making quite a career switch. Janet Days retired from the Navy after rising to be the first African American woman to command Naval Station Norfolk. (More)

➤ Amazon touted its 100,000-square-foot center it built in Roanoke last year. The facility employs 400 people. (Details)

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➤ Give Me Liberty: Virginia & The Forging of a Nation opens Saturday at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The exhibit, timed to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, runs until January. (Details)

➤ Spring has arrived, and it's almost time for trees across the Commonwealth to burst into bloom. (Set Your Watch)

➤ George Bell, a 7-foot-8-inch Portsmouth native, recognized by Guinness World Records as America's tallest man, has died at 67. Bell worked for the Norfolk Sheriff's Office after a stint playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. (His Story)

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