
Family visits home dedicated to once enslaved relatives
In April, Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors memorialized a three-room building with a unanimous motion to name it the Fraction Family House at Solitude.

In April, Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors memorialized a three-room building with a unanimous motion to name it the Fraction Family House at Solitude.

Dr. Hughes Melton passed away on Friday, according to a news release from the office of Gov. Ralph Northam.

Longtime Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster announced Thursday that he will step down at the end of the 2019 season.

UVA Athletics is investing $180 million in a new athletics performance center, which almost isn’t newsworthy, given how many schools are making, or have recently made, similar investments.

ODU women’s basketball head coach Nikki McCray announced the Monarchs 2019-20 schedule on Thursday morning. ODU returns the entire roster from last season, where they made a 13-win improvement and secured a WNIT appearance.

A medical emergency may have precipitated the head-on collision that took the life of a Staunton teen in a three-vehicle crash on Route 254 near Kiddsville Road in Augusta County on Wednesday.

Younger Americans could be putting their relationships at risk with looser relationship boundaries online, according to “iFidelity: The State of Our Unions 2019.”

Eight home games, a trip to the Cayman Islands and a marquee road matchup at Maryland will highlight the 2019-20 George Mason basketball non-conference schedule.

Shenandoah University Head Women’s Basketball Coach Melissa Smeltzer-Kraft announced her 2019-20 schedule Tuesday.

Kevin Gregg has been selected as VDOT’s new chief of maintenance and operations.
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