
Play Ball! with Mike Bocock, AFP editor Chris Graham, debuts this week on WSVA
Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham will join Mike Bocock for another season of Play Ball! on WSVA-550AM in Harrisonburg.

Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham will join Mike Bocock for another season of Play Ball! on WSVA-550AM in Harrisonburg.

The Virginia Economic Developers Association (VEDA) announced the selection of The Shenandoah Valley Region as winner of the 2015 Community Economic Development Award for the Fields of Gold Agritourism Program.

You don’t need a Walmart front-door greeter to find the flaw in the company’s recently announced boost in worker wages: it’s not enough.

Every kid dreams of meeting a super hero one day, and Richmond International Raceway is offering that chance. Before the Saturday April 25 TOYOTA OWNERS 400, kids 12 and younger can attend the Youth Autograph Session with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Jamie McMurray, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Attorney General Mark R. Herring is joining 14 other states and the District of Columbia today in filing an amicus brief advocating for recently announced federal immigration reforms that “will increase State tax revenue, enhance public safety, and help avoid tragic situations in which parents are deported away from their U.S. citizen children, who are left to rely on state services or extended family.”

The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights commented on the move by Attorney General Mark Herring, Congressmen Bobby Scott, Gerry Connolly, and Don Beyer on signing an Amicus Brief supporting the Obama administration by requesting that the Texas 5th Circuit Court lift Judge Andrew Hanen’s preliminary injunction blocking the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA).

Bridgewater College will celebrate 135 years of its founding on Tuesday, April 7, presenting three awards during the 11 a.m. convocation in Nininger Hall.

UVA football averaged 137.8 yards per game on the ground in 2014, 99th nationally among 128 FBS teams, and that was with senior tailback Kevin Parks, who finished his career ranked fifth in program history with 3,219 rushing yards, getting the bulk of the carries.

Eight of the James Madison baseball team’s nine starters tallied at least one hit on Saturday evening as the Dukes rolled to a 16-8 victory over Delaware in Colonial Athletic Association action at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.

No. 24/25 James Madison seized control of the Colonial Athletic Association standings after storming back twice in late innings to sweep the series against rival Hofstra with 4-2 and 7-4 victories on Saturdayafternoon at the Hofstra Softball Stadium.
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