New conservative picks for VMI board, delta-8 legality still in question, red flag law use in Roanoke and New River valleys and more of today's headlines from around Virginia

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New conservative picks for VMI board, delta-8 legality still in question, and red flag law use in Roanoke and New River valleys

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New conservative picks for VMI board and more Va. headlines

BY: STAFF REPORT - JULY 5, 2022 7:58 AM


• Gov. Glenn Youngkin put several new conservative members on the board of the Virginia Military Institute, including a former board member who resigned amid a push for the school to shed its Confederate symbols.—Washington Post

• Fairfax County officials are rebuffing a request from a U.S. Supreme Court official to enforce anti-picketing laws against protests at justices’ homes.—WTOP

• Climate activists blocked traffic for more than an hour Monday on the Maryland side of the Capital Beltway.—DCist

• Virginia regulators say they still consider Delta-8 and other synthetic cannabinoids illegal, despite the General Assembly’s move toward sanctioning hemp-based THC products.—Axios

• The teenaged daughter of a Toronto Blue Jays coach died in a boating accident on the James River.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

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