The Roanoke City Councilwoman was endorsed by numerous city Democratic leaders in her Democratic nomination race with council colleague Luke Priddy.
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The team will compete in the 2023 state championships Saturday in Sterling.
An interfaith service brought together churches and social justice groups to show support after vandalism earlier this month at the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center.
Surveillance camera footage from the grocery store captured one man throwing a punch at Kemonte Cooper, 28, of Roanoke County before Cooper fired a gun in his direction.
“To have civil discourse, you have to understand other people’s perspectives,” Radford University President Bret Danilowicz said Friday. "My hope is that we continue to model civil discourse, how differences of opinion can get to talk."
Instead of a fight, the administration opted for a corporate solution: a buyout of Jillian Balow.
James Howard Spencer is charged with allowing town sewage to be dumped into creeks and rivers.
Benjamin "Logan" Cross, 30, was indicted in June 2022 on seven charges in connection with the collision that killed Frank Albert Campbell, 53, of Roanoke County.
Hokies coach Kenny Brooks planned to dine out with his wife last Monday. The NCAA women's basketball tournament had other ideas.
A new study on "Allergy Capitals" from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America finds that of the 100 largest U.S. cities, Richmond ranks as the 23rd hardest city to live in with pollen allergies.
Stephen Imholt, the Republican running against Del. Lamont Bagby, D-Henrico, in Tuesday's special election, says "there needs to be an option" for voters.
Applications to UVa hit an all-time high, with nearly 60,000 applications for the class of 2027. That record also means a new high number for rejections and students on the wait list.
Virginia Tech landed a commitment from a star quarterback in the 2024 recruiting class Wednesday night. The Hokies added a pass-rushing defensive end to the fold Thursday.
Patrick Henry’s Bodie Kahoun comes from a family of lacrosse players.
Longstanding disagreements about content in school libraries often focus this year on books with LGBTQ themes.
The government's response to the failure of two large banks has already involved hundreds of billions of dollars. So will ordinary Americans end up paying for it, one way or another? And what will the price tag be?
It was a frenetic weekend of nonstop briefings with regulators, lawmakers, administration officials and President Joe Biden himself about how to handle the demise of the nation's 16th-biggest bank.
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week about topics like the "QAnon Shaman," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, HIV cases in the U.S. military and more. Here are the facts.
Americans who came of age during the pandemic are skipping college in big numbers. Many have shunned traditional college paths, turning instead to hourly jobs or careers that don’t require a degree.
Nearly six months after the sabotage on the Russia-to-Germany pipelines, there is no accepted explanation as to what happened. And a series of unconfirmed reports are filling an information vacuum as investigations into the blasts continue.
The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico highlights a common practice for many people in the U.S.: traveling to other countries for medical care that either is not available at home or costs a lot less.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted Carlson access to more than 40,000 hours of the Capitol security footage from Jan. 6. McCarthy's office said it is still working out the process to make the footage "more widely available" but did not comment further.
The audio intercepts obtained by the AP show how deeply unprepared young soldiers — and their country — were for the war to come.
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Virginia Tech junior Youssef Ramadan claimed the men’s swimming program’s first individual NCAA championship Friday evening with a blistering time in the 100-yard butterfly final.
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