A look at MLB players from the 2026 season who were born in Virginia
With a few weeks left in the 2026 Major League Baseball season, 30 players born in Virginia have appeared in at least one MLB game this year.
With a few weeks left in the 2026 Major League Baseball season, 30 players born in Virginia have appeared in at least one MLB game this year.
You probably know that only Staunton (and Charlottesville) have rail stations with Amtrak service, and that no other Shenandoah Valley city or town or county north of Staunton has train service.
Whatever is going on with Michael Lombardi, the longtime personnel confidante to Bill Belichick, it was enough to get Lombardi to quit as the GM for the UNC Football program.
Today’s troll level: expert honors go to Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who hosted a roundtable in Botetourt County, just down the road from the home of our Sixth District congressman, Ben Cline, to hear from Virginia cattle farmers.
Local advocates are petitioning to bring passenger rail to Harrisonburg and the surrounding Shenandoah Valley in Virginia’s 2026 State Rail Plan.
Albemarle County emergency teams pulled a body out of the water at the South Fork Rivanna River Reservoir Monday morning.
The State Corporation Commission has set an Oct. 22 hearing to hear from the public on a request from Dominion Energy for approval and certification of an electric transmission facilities rebuild in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
On a typical weeknight in the Shenandoah Valley or Central Virginia, the last screen many people look at before bed is not the television. It is a phone, and more often than not there is a game open on it.
Scanning the record books, there is nothing special about the 1993 JMU baseball team – the Dukes were 24-24-1 overall and 3-7-1 in what was then the competitive Colonial Athletic Association.
Jim Arnold, 86, scouted ahead for sunken tires from his Pelican kayak during a day-long cleanup effort sponsored by Friends of the Middle River.
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