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Once hailed as Augusta County’s TikTok star, the deputy’s ‘curls were poppin’ — but now her cases are droppin’, along with public trust. Written by: Samuel Orlando | Breaking Through News | November 8, 2025 AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA  — Hundreds of traffic tickets issued by a well-known Augusta County deputy — who gained social-media fame on TikTok — were abruptly dismissed in a packed courtroom last month, with Sheriff Donald Smith himself appearing to request the dismissals. The de

After a Black Panther Party leader reports being hunted through city streets and a nonprofit founder’s home is targeted by a masked trespasser, Black advocates say Waynesboro’s “One Waynesboro” has left their community more divided than ever. Written by: Samuel Orlando WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA - The City of Waynesboro’s top elected official is facing serious questions about truthfulness after written records obtained by Breaking Through News  show that Mayor Kenny Lee  made state

Written by: Sam Orlando When Dewan Bellamy  stood before the Waynesboro City Council on October 15 , he didn’t come to protest. He came with a plan. In a detailed proposal titled the Community Homeless Youth Initiative (CHYI) , the deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party of Augusta County  laid out a one-year strategy to reduce youth and family homelessness by 90 percent. His plan identified 52 children and their families  living without stable housing and called for emerg

A double standard that says more about hypocrisy than politics. Written by: Sam Orlando The Ad That Crossed a Line A new campaign ad from Abigail Spanberger’s team dropped this week.It runs fifteen seconds.No sound.Just the face of Winsome Earle-Sears — Virginia’s Black lieutenant governor — shown mid-speech, her mouth moving, her expression intense, while bold red text flashes across the screen: “STOP SEARS” It doesn’t look like every other political ad. There’s no narrati

The real story isn’t Trump’s audacity — it’s the power of the DOJ to ruin lives with no accountability. Written by: Sam Orlando STAUNTON, VIRGINIA - In 1996, a Georgia security guard named Richard Jewell  found a backpack stuffed with explosives at the Atlanta Olympics and helped evacuate the area. He was a hero—until the FBI leaked his name to reporters as a “person of interest.” Within hours, his life became a circus. Cameras camped on his lawn, agents searched his mother’s

As physicists confront a universe ruled by an invisible force they can’t explain, the line between cosmology and theology grows thin — and strangely familiar. Written by: Sam Orlando In the last few decades, science has made an astonishing confession:the more precisely we measure the universe, the less of it we understand. Astronomers can now chart the movements of galaxies, trace the faint echo of the Big Bang, and model the birth and death of stars with breathtaking precisi

Written by Samuel Orlando I. The Man Who Asked STAUNTON, VIRGINIA - The most powerful man in the world made a simple request.He wanted to know the truth. In early 1977, President Jimmy Carter  summoned his intelligence advisers and asked to see what America really knew about UFOs —what officials had begun to call “unidentified aerial phenomena.” It wasn’t a whim. Eight years earlier, Carter had stood outside a Georgia Lions Club and watched a glowing object hover above the tr

Written by: Sam Orlando The Bust Heard ’Round the Internet STAUNTON, VIRGINIA - Well, the good news is you’re still here. The bad news...

Above: Former President Russell M. Nelson; Below: Expected President to be Dallin H. Oaks Russell M. Nelson, the heart surgeon turned...

Written by: Sam Orlando AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA - In a move that may have just rewritten his political obituary—or unintentionally...

Virginia court says jury should have heard full context of defendant’s post-arrest statement Written by: Sam Orlando HENRICO, VIRGINIA -...

Written by: Sam Orlando ROANOKE, VIRGINIA — In a sharply worded opinion that stops just short of asking "Are you serious?", the Virginia...

Written by: Sam Orlando WARREN COUNTY, VA — In a plot twist worthy of a courtroom sitcom, the Virginia Court of Appeals has reversed a...

Written by: Michael Phillips CULPEPER, VIRGINIA  — In a surprise post issued this afternoon, President Donald J. Trump announced a full...