Dems block gun law rollbacks and more Virginia headlines - Virginia Mercury

• A Virginia Beach School Board member has been booted off Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s education working group after making controversial comments about students learning English as a second language.—WAVY

• New Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares’s efforts to gain more power to prosecute local crimes hit a dead end in the General Assembly.—Washington Post

• Democrats blocked a handful of GOP bills to roll back Virginia’s new gun restrictions, including the red flag law.—Associated Press

• Developers seeking to rezone 2,600 acres in Orange County say they’ll work to clean up potential mercury contamination from long-abandoned gold mines.—Bay Journal

• The space company Rocket Lab has picked Virginia’s Wallops Island as the site for a planned rocket-making complex and launch pad.—Virginia Business

• Virginia Beach-area delegates are feuding over a pending budget amendment to defund the commission still investigating the 2019 mass shooting at a city office building.—Virginian-Pilot

• The plastic dividers put up in the Virginia Senate to guard against COVID-19 have been taken down.—Associated Press

• An art museum in the Congo wanted to get ahold of a Congolese statue displayed in the African section of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. When its efforts failed, it turned the artwork into a digital NFT, a move VMFA officials called “unacceptable and unprofessional.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

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