
Women’s basketball: Virginia tops Virginia Tech, 61-52
The Virginia women’s basketball team (13-7, 6-1 ACC) picked up a 61-52 victory over Virginia Tech (13-6, 2-5 ACC) on Sunday (Jan. 21) at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va.

The Virginia women’s basketball team (13-7, 6-1 ACC) picked up a 61-52 victory over Virginia Tech (13-6, 2-5 ACC) on Sunday (Jan. 21) at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va.

The hills of eastern Ethiopia are the scene of a partnership between Virginia’s two land-grant universities that aims to rid rural communities of a noxious and sometimes deadly pest.

During a classroom presentation last spring, a Virginia Tech student described his favorite team — the Philadelphia Eagles — as the greatest in the National Football League. He then paused, almost defiantly, for dramatic effect.

The Virginia women’s basketball team (12-7, 5-1 ACC) hosts Virginia Tech (13-6, 2-4 ACC) on Sunday, Jan. 21 at 12:30 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va.

Lt. Colonel Gary T. Settle was sworn Thursday in as Superintendent of the Virginia State Police. Settle replaces retiring Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, who served the past 14 years as the State Police Superintendent upon his appointment to colonel in 2003 by then-Governor Mark R. Warner.

Funding has been approved for Virginia Tech’s research on electrotherapy, a process that attacks brain cancer and tumors associated with Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy.

A yurt stands solitary, its presence signaling human habitation on an otherwise untouched plain. The home, called a ger in Mongolia, is surrounded by open rangeland in every direction, the panorama stretching for hundreds of acres until grassland greets the base of the Khangai Mountains.

Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association, the state trade association for garden centers, nursery growers, landscape designers, contractors, greenhouses and horticultural suppliers, recently welcomed Shellie Archer of Richmond as the association’s new executive director.

Chris Graham and Scott German offer analysis and commentary on #3 Virginia’s 68-51 win over NC State.

Chris Graham breaks down Sunday’s ACC hoops matchup between #3 Virginia (15-1, 4-0 ACC) and NC State (12-5, 2-2 ACC).
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