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The Chesapeake Bay’s watermen are getting green lights to catch a few more blue crabs, a year after dismal population numbers led to steep cutbacks in their allowance.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeals-court ruling in favor of a trans woman who alleged her rights were violated because she had been held in a men’s unit at the Fairfax County jail.
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Three homers in a seven-run eighth inning blasted the Richmond Flying Squirrels to an 11-5 win over the Bowie Baysox in front of a sold-out crowd on the Fourth of July at The Diamond.
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On May 13th, 1939, the SS St. Louis, a luxury cruise ship, departed Hamburg, Germany bound for Cuba, where its 937 passengers, most of them Jews fleeing Hitler’s Germany, expected to gain entry into the United States.
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The Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney’s office has hired three new employees: Nicholas Kalagian, William Tanner and Kelly Oufoula Kossi.
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While almost everyone has been bitten by a mosquito, some carry germs and infections like West Nile Virus, Zika, dengue and malaria.
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I was reading about bumble bees recently — specifically, their looming demise, thanks to human greed and ignorance — and started thinking about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We should have eaten from it!
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VDOT has updated its list of highway work that is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the next week.
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I’m just getting back from a weekend in Baltimore to see the O’s play the Minnesota Twins, and the O’s at least salvaged the series finale with two runs in the eighth to win, 2-1.
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Virginia DEQ has worked out an approach to splitting the difference between economic development and protecting wetlands and streams in light of the Trump Supreme Court decision in Sackett vs. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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