
Virginia truck driving champions crowned
Nine professional Virginia truck drivers were crowned 2015 “Champions of the Highway” at the 64th annual Virginia Truck Driving Championships held April 17 and 18 at Con-way Freight in Chester, Virginia.

Nine professional Virginia truck drivers were crowned 2015 “Champions of the Highway” at the 64th annual Virginia Truck Driving Championships held April 17 and 18 at Con-way Freight in Chester, Virginia.

On Thursday, April 23 and Thursday, May 7, ALDI, the nation’s low-price grocery leader, will offer grocery shoppers a smarter alternative as it opens its first Richmond-area stores. The new stores will be located at 1776 North Parham Road in Richmond, 465 Charles Dimmock Parkway in Colonial Heights and 841 Shenandoah Village Drive in Waynesboro.

Republican State Senate candidate Dan Moxley was endorsed Monday by former chair of the Culpeper County Republican Committee, and GOP nominee for the 30th House of Delegates district, Nick Freitas. The 30th House of Delegates district overlaps with the 24th District in Madison and Culpeper counties.

The Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV) has hired a veteran attorney, environmental advocate, renewable energy leader, and former educator as project manager for the Solar Market Pathways grant recently awarded to CICV by the U.S. Department of Energy Sunshot Initiative.

The James Madison University Department of Athletics celebrated its athletics achievements for the 2014-15 year and named its top athletics award winners on Monday night at the seventh annual JMU Athletics Recognition Banquet at the Festival Conference Center Ballroom.

This week, Attorney General Mark Herring will commemorate Crime Victims’ Rights Week by bringing awareness to those who have suffered from crime and highlighting services for victims offered by the Office of the Attorney General.

To commemorate one of the most innovative and holistic sustainability platforms in the country, NASCAR announced its third annual NASCAR Race to Green™ initiative.

Health specialists from Virginia are on their way to Indiana today, lending their expertise to that state’s HIV outbreak response.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) released on April 15 the draft Six-Year Improvement Program (SYIP), which allocates $12.9 billion to transportation projects over the next six fiscal years beginning July 1, 2015.

The UVA baseball team fell 8-6 to No. 9 Miami Sunday at Davenport Field as the Hurricanes (30-11, 15-6 ACC) salvaged the final game of the series. Virginia (24-15, 9-12) took two of three games in the series as it won its sixth straight series against Miami.
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