Five fatal crashes over the Christmas holiday weekend resulted in the deaths of one pedestrian, one moped operator and three drivers on Virginia’s highways.

Harris Teeter grocery products will likely travel a shorter distance and get to Prince William County area supermarkets sooner with the opening of a new distribution center in Caroline County, south of Fredericksburg. Harris Teeter plans to invest $95 million to establish a 1.5 million-square-foot food distribution operation, with the first phase at least 650,000 square feet or about 15 acres.

Virginia Department of Corrections has worked with its offender phone service provider, Global Tel*Link (GTL), to lower phone rates drastically over the last five years. Offenders will now pay about $0.04 per minute with an average call costing $0.69.

State Board of Elections and the State Department of Elections will take on a major administrative overhaul of the process for dealing with lines on Election Day.

Virginia State Police is partnering with the state police, highway patrols and local law enforcement of every state along the East Coast containing a portion of Interstate 95 in an effort to keep one of the nation’s major interstate corridors safe and fatality-free.

After months of research and evaluation, including extensive outreach to the states whose permits Virginia currently recognizes, Virginia is revoking concealed handgun permit recognition with 25 states effective February 1, 2016.

Virginia Department of Transportation has announced that the Old Carolina/Jefferson Street bridge in Haymarket over I-66 will reopen tomorrow, Dec. 23, nearly five months ahead of schedule.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Dec. 21 that the Commonwealth’s agencies will dramatically increase the use of renewable energy to power the state’s operations.