When Virginia pays someone more unemployment benefits than they’re entitled to, it’s been lax about trying to recover the money, a new Office of the State Inspector General audit says. Reviewing the quarterly financial reports that the Virginia Employment Commission filed with the U.S. Department of Labor from July 2023 through September 2025, the audit found the agency wrote off $300 million of overpayments while recovering only $6 million. “VEC is not performing several procedures that would increase their recovery of overpayments,” the audit found.

A top Fairfax County Public Schools official said Monday an independent investigation confirmed that administrators dealt properly with a high school student who was convicted of assault after he was charged with groping several of his classmates earlier this year. “The external investigation confirmed that our administration acted promptly and appropriately to stop this behavior,” Superintendent Michelle C. Reid said in a statement. The Northern Virginia school system and McGuireWoods, the law firm hired to conduct the independent review, did not respond to The Washington Post’s requests for a copy of their findings.

The speed cameras on Interstate 64 in New Kent County have netted the county almost $7 million in revenue since the program began last summer. “As of last week, we had collected $6.87 million,” Richard Lawrence, the county’s finance director, told the Board of Supervisors on May 26. “That number will go up a little bit more … we are looking to be somewhere between $7.2 and $7.5 (million) by 6/30.” The county plans to hold a public hearing this month to consider how to use up to $6.25 million of the funds, which have been collected since the speed cameras went up in August. … Lawrence said the county does not face restrictions until July 1, when the money must be used for transportation or speed reduction purposes.

Lou DiBella has his account of what happened. Jason Guillot has his – and a tiny dog is also involved. But however it went down, what occurred between them on opening night at CarMax Park, as the Richmond Flying Squirrels were playing their first game in the new stadium, is now at the center of an increasingly public feud between the ball club’s owner and the developer leading the adjacent Diamond District project. DiBella alleged in a lawsuit filed last week that Guillot, the Thalhimer Realty Partners principal who’s heading up development team Diamond District Partners, defamed DiBella when he reported to city officials about the heated exchange between them that occurred April 7 in the ballpark’s upper suite level, even as a sell-out crowd was cheering on the Squirrels outside. Now, that report to the city, made by Guillot and Thalhimer colleague Maritza Pechin in an emailed memo, has also been made public after a Freedom of Information Act request by Richmond BizSense.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign adopted “shock and awe” tactics that were broader and far more visible than previous enforcement efforts, including one started under former President George W. Bush in 2008 and continued under former President Barack Obama, said the authors of study, released Friday. In the 86 cities that saw the sharpest rise in ICE arrests, they found roughly 13 lost jobs associated with each excess arrest. … The study looked at 86 cities that experienced an enforcement surge in the first half of 2025 and compared them with others that didn’t to help isolate the impact from other factors that affect local employment. The authors used arrest data from the Deportation Data Project, an initiative that tracks ICE arrests through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as employment estimates from labor market research firm Lightcast and federal payroll records.