Virginia settles voting rights suit brought by NAACP to protect college students
The NAACP has won a legal victory for college students in Virginia who want to register to vote in the state’s elections.
The NAACP has won a legal victory for college students in Virginia who want to register to vote in the state’s elections.

Virginia Tech announced on Thursday that an anonymous family of Tech alums has made a $75 million gift to athletics and to one of the school’s academic programs.
John Rocovich is challenging the move by Gov. Abigail Spanberger to remove him from his spot on the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger has rather emphatically removed John Rocovich from the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, effectively immediately, in a letter made public on Thursday in which she accused the board rector of misconduct.
Tim Sands was the first domino to fall at the behest of the football booster lobby at Virginia Tech, and the second, Whit Babcock, fell on his sword today, announcing his, ahem, “retirement,” effective July 1.
You might have heard that high winds down in Blacksburg blew the skydivers engaged for a special pre-Virginia Tech spring football game to-do on Saturday off-course.
On April 2, 1968, the Turner Ashby High School baseball team – after a one-run loss to Fort Defiance to start the season – beat Page County, 2-0, behind the pitching of Jodie Wampler.
Virginia Tech will honor the students and faculty members who lost their lives on April 16, 2007, with a Day of Remembrance and run.
Something is going on down at Virginia Tech, where the school’s president, Tim Sands, announced to Hokie Nation on Thursday, in a shock move, that he will be stepping down in the coming months.
The unemployment rate in Virginia is likely to rise this year, from 3.5 percent to 4.4 percent, according to an economic forecast from the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
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