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This year-end TA(P) looks at grants for Idaho artists and the retirement of The Bookshelf

IDAHO FALLS — A new exhibit at The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho puts a spotlight on the work of Idaho artists. The museum is currently hosting the 2022 “Art Idaho” exhibition. The artworks featured in the exhibit are all entries into the museum’s biennial juried competition. Art Idaho is open to any artist currently […]

A conversation with a woman about tattoos led to a deadly 7-Eleven shooting in Newport News, court documents say.

A conversation about tattoos preceded a deadly July 8 shooting outside a 7-Eleven store in Newport News, according to court documents.

A conversation about tattoos and a fight led up to a shooting outside of a 7-Eleven gas station on Warwick Boulevard in Newport News on Friday afternoon.

Officers found a man who had been shot Friday when they responded to the 12400 block of Warwick Boulevard, the Newport News Police Department said.

A man has been charged with second-degree homicide after a shooting at a 7-Eleven on Friday, according to a release from the Newport News Police Department.

The money comes from the state's share of American Rescue Plan funds.

The state arts commission is taking applications for arts-related grants through Sunday.

WINCHESTER — The Frederick County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday night declined to add the new state holiday of Juneteenth — which celebrates the end of slavery — to its list of county holidays. Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger led Union soldiers into Galveston, Texas, bringing news that the Civil War had ended and that the Emancipation Proclamation had declared all enslaved people free nearly two and a half years earlier. Curr...