
William and Mary picked fourth in preseason CAA football poll
Four William and Mary football standouts garnered preseason all-conference honors at the 2015 Colonial Athletic Association Media Day at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday.

Four William and Mary football standouts garnered preseason all-conference honors at the 2015 Colonial Athletic Association Media Day at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday.

Richmond missed a chance to claim sole possession of second place in the Western Division with a 3-2 loss at Altoona on Monday night.

Kurtis Brown, a first baseman for the Staunton Braves, is the final Valley Baseball League D-BAT Player of the Week for the preceding week’s games from July 19-July 25.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia campaigned on green energy (and I hear some people may have believed him, though I haven’t met one) and then immediately backed the proposed construction of a giant fracked-gas pipeline through the mountains and farms of Virginia to carry fossil fuels from West Virginia to North Carolina.

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center has been recognized as the No. 1 hospital in Virginia and the Richmond metro area in U.S. News & World Report’s newest Best Hospitals rankings.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced this week that Hardywood Park Craft Brewery will invest more than $28 million over the next five years to expand its operations in Goochland County.

The Staunton Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a male involved in credit card fraud from Wal-Mart, 1028 C Richmond Ave., between June 6, 2015 and June 7, 2015.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

A circuit court judge in Richmond rejected on July 9 a lawsuit aimed at declaring a cow a fertilizer applicator.
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