Virginia DMV, other state agency services unavailable due to outage

By Christopher Thomas
June 7, 2024 | 2:56 PM

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and other state agencies started experiencing “technical difficulties,” Friday morning leading to services being temporarily out of commission. The DMV said the disruption to its online services, Customer Service Centers and call center operations was due to a cut fiber optic line. This left many Virginians unable to use online services, and led to the Customer Service Centers closing three hours early at 2 p.m. Virginia DMV said that Customer Service Centers will remain open one hour longer, until 6 p.m. Monday on June 10 through Thursday on June 13. In a post on X, the Virginia DMV apologized and told customers to monitor social media for any updates.

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Breaking the silence around suicide: A Virginia mother shares thoughts on prevention

By Kate Ryan
September 1, 2026 | 4:22 AM

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and Betsy Stephenson, an Alexandria, Virginia, resident and a mother who lost her son to suicide, wants people to talk about it. "By not talking about suicide, we are not going to make it go away. In fact, I think that we could inadvertently give it a little more power than it deserves," she told WTOP. One of the things that Stephenson wants families to know is that people who are struggling can appear to be doing well. "You can be very high-functioning as a depressed person or an anxious person," she said. "You can be connected socially. You can be doing well at school or work. You can be making plans, smiling, laughing, engaged, but still be struggling deeply, you know, cosmically, inside."

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