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Jury Awards $10 Million to Abigail Zwerner, Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Student  The New York Times US teacher shot by six-year-old student awarded $10m by jury  BBC Shaggy delivers aid to storm victims after Hurricane Melissa: ‘It is where I call home’  Yahoo Jury reaches verdict in Richneck Elementary shooting case  WAVY.com Abigail Zwerner wins $10 million in lawsuit over being shot by 6-year-old …

Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been elected Virginia’s first female governor as her party racked up victories in key elections across the southern state. An ex-CIA and federal law enforcement officer who served three terms in the US House of Representatives after flipping a GOP-held district, Spanberger was leading the state’s Republican lieutenant governor Winsome Earle-Sears 57% to 43%, with 89% …

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is running against former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger in the race, and in either case, the winner will make history in the commonwealth as its first female governor. If Earle-Sears wins, she’ll become the first female Black governor.  Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears, left, and Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger, right. AP There’s no incumbent …

A former Virginia teacher told civil jurors on Thursday she thought she was dead or about to die in the moments after she was shot by a 6-year-old boy at school two years ago. Abigail Zwerner spoke slowly and at times struggled with her emotions, explaining how she was severely injured on Jan. 6, 2023, at Richneck Elementary in Newport …

NORFOLK, Va. — After Abigail Spanberger took the stage at a campaign event Sunday afternoon here, she delivered an impassioned speech casting next week’s gubernatorial election as a chance to reject President Donald Trump and the chaos she said his administration’s policies have sowed in Virginia’s economy. It’s a message Spanberger, the Democratic nominee, has remained laser-focused on in the …

Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears sparred frequently and bitterly Thursday during their only debate of this fall’s Virginia governor’s race — and much of it wasn’t even about the two candidates onstage. Rather, the hourlong showdown at Norfolk State University — in which the moderators repeatedly asked Earle-Sears to refrain from talking over her opponent — most prominently …

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is heading into the final stretch of her campaign to try and become the next governor of Virginia with vocal support from two former Republican members of Congress.  In a new development first reported by CBS News, Spanberger’s campaign is set to tout endorsements from former Reps. Barbara Comstock and Denver Riggleman. The show of support from …