
Valley VITA seeks volunteers for the 2015-2016 tax season
Valley VITA is seeking Volunteer Income Tax Assistance volunteers for the 2015 tax season (February through April 2016).

Valley VITA is seeking Volunteer Income Tax Assistance volunteers for the 2015 tax season (February through April 2016).

Adding to her call this spring to “end the era of mass incarceration,” today Hillary Clinton outlined specific reforms to tackle mandatory minimum sentences, which disproportionately hurt African Americans and other minority communities.

Emma Russell scored on a pass from Lies Lagerweij with 8:37 remaining in the first overtime period to give top-seeded Syracuse a 3-2 win over fourth-seeded Virginia in the first semifinal game of the 2015 ACC Field Hockey Championship.

Look at that photo. That’s what Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy did to his girlfriend. Dude is 6’4’, 278. She’s not even half his size.

And now the government is cracking down on bake sales. A couple years ago, First Lady Michelle Obama launched her Let’s Move campaign. Along with it, the President signed into law the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Both are targeted at reducing childhood obesity, a laudable goal indeed.

A 5-year-old boxer with a habit of eating things he shouldn’t has won a national competition for the most unusual pet insurance claim after swallowing a wooden BBQ skewer and having it removed at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech nearly a year later.

UVA football coach Mike London talks with reporters on Wednesday on the ACC Coaches Teleconference.

Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with reporters in Wednesday’s ACC Coaches Teleconference.

The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge presented awards of $10,000 to each of ten individuals during the 22nd annual Dawbarn Education Awards ceremony Wednesday evening.

Attorney General Mark Herring announced today that Virginia will join a coalition of seventeen other states and seven major municipalities taking legal action to support the Clean Power Plan, a national pollution-reduction strategy that will combat the impact of climate change on Virginia’s economy, coastal communities, the military, agriculture and forestry industry, and the health of Virginians.
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