
Infant dead, teen charged in Rockingham crash
An 18-month-old child was killed Friday morning in a single-vehicle and pedestrian crash in the Belmont subdivision, which is located just west of the City of Harrisonburg in Rockingham County.

An 18-month-old child was killed Friday morning in a single-vehicle and pedestrian crash in the Belmont subdivision, which is located just west of the City of Harrisonburg in Rockingham County.

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, will speak at the University of Virginia on Friday, Sept. 28, 7-9 p.m., at South Lawn Commons, Nau Auditorium, 1550 Jefferson Park Ave., Charlottesville.

Silver Gallery in Waynesboro is among the 11 finalists competing in the third annual Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards competition held by the University of Virginia Darden School of Business

A new state law requiring voters to present identification at the polls to ensure that their votes will be counted will be in effect for the November elections

August 2012 event calendar for Stone Soup Books and Cafe in Waynesboro

James Madison University Athletics Director Jeff Bourne has announced the hiring of Mickey Dean to serve as the Dukes’ head softball coach. Dean, a native of the Central Shenandoah Valley, has spent the past six seasons leading the Radford University softball program to unprecedented success. He also brings professional and international coaching experience to the JMU softball program

Dr. Rodney Graber, a noninvasive cardiologist, has joined Augusta Health Cardiology in Fishersville. Dr. Graber’s specialties are echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and pacemaker devices

On Friday, U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, volunteered at the Remote Area Medical Clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds

David Krieger, DO, MPH, MBA, a specialist in occupational medicine, has joined Augusta Health as the medical director of the new Occupational Health program. The Fishersville hospital also announced the addition of Michael Layne, M.D., an internal medicine physician, as a hospitalist

Politicians speaking at outdoor events on a pretty day invariably and jokingly take credit for the weather. But no one has stepped up to take credit for the weather lately. Records are being broken; new highs are being set
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