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Reston Limousine sold to Texas company
Dallas-based TBL Group, a transportation and logistics management acquisition company, has purchased Reston Limousine & Travel Service, a Sterling-based transportation company started in 1990. According to TBL’s website, the company will be known as Reston Transportation. Financial terms were not disclosed. Since its founding, Reston Limo has grown from five vehicles to a fleet of […]
Industries

HII division awarded $133M Air National Guard contract
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ McLean-based Mission Technologies division won a $133 million contract by the U.S. Air National Guard to support and provide training for flying units. HII, which made the announcement Wednesday, said this will be accomplished through live, virtual and constructive training in a 10-year task order. Mission Technologies will provide expertise and staffing […]
Real Estate

Danville-Pittsylvania authority invests in history
Using a $1.89 million loan from the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority, Danville and Pittsylvania County officials plan to purchase about 289 acres adjacent to the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill. Members of the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority (RIFA) unanimously agreed in January to move forward with purchasing the land at 5981 Berry […]
Money

Fear that Trump tariffs will spark recession slashes billions of dollars from US stock values
U.S. companies had billions of dollars in value wiped out after President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on foreign imports. Virtually every sector suffered big losses Thursday as U.S. financial markets careened toward their biggest one-day drop since COVID-19 flattened the global economy five years ago. Banks, retailers, clothing, airlines and technology companies were among the hardest […]
Government

Virginia lawmakers buck Youngkin budget amendments in one-day session
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers addressed scores of legislative vetoes and amendments from Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday, including the governor’s 205 revisions to the state’s budget bill that were decisively nixed by the Democratic-led General Assembly. The one-day session in Richmond comes after Youngkin vetoed 158 bills that blocked Democrats’ attempts to reintroduce legislation […]
People

NFIB hires grassroots manager for five-state region
Small business advocacy organization the National Federation of Independent Business announced Tuesday that it hired Katie Whittington as its grassroots manager for Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina Virginia and West Virginia. In the role, Whittington will be based in Richmond and work directly with NFIB members across the five-state region to advance small business agendas […]
Healthcare
- Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing
- Health care systems are in their building era
- VCU Health performs nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant
- Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close agencies in a major restructuring
- Whistleblowers in Sentara insurance investigation revealed
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