Glenn Youngkin is overhauling the role of the state’s diversity, equity and inclusion officer, naming a critical race theory critic to the job who will also serve as an “ambassador for the unborn.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch• More than 750 workers at Ballad Health, which serves Southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee, missed work Wednesday after testing positive for COVID-19. Almost 80 percent of the employees were vaccinated.—Bristol Herald Courier• Two Richmond residents want the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the already-completed removal of the Robert E. Lee monument.—Associated Press• More time capsules might be buried under empty Confederate pedestals in Richmond.—Richmond Times-Dispatch• Williamsburg-area legislators want to crack down on elder financial abuse.—Daily Press• After being turned down by FEMA, Buchanan County officials are asking Youngkin for state disaster relief to help homeowners affected by flash flooding last summer.—Cardinal News• The family of a University of Virginia student who died in 2017 after being detained by North Korea was awarded $240,000 in seized North Korean assets.—Washington Post• The gunman who opened fire at a Roanoke gay bar in 2000 has died in prison.—Roanoke Times• Men accused of plotting to kidnap and possibly kill Michigan’s governor also discussed “a plan to set fire to the house of the governor of Virginia.”—Detroit News• A Virginia grand jury charged two men with crimes for incidents on airplanes arriving at Dulles International Airport, “alleging that one assaulted a flight attendant who denied his request for wine.”—Washington Post• More snow/slush is on the way.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2022 13:21 UTC