
UVA introduces Tina Thompson as new women’s basketball coach
The University of Virginia formally introduced Tina Thompson as its new women’s basketball coach at a press conference on Wednesday.

The University of Virginia formally introduced Tina Thompson as its new women’s basketball coach at a press conference on Wednesday.

Virginia athletics director Carla Williams announced today (April 16) Tina Thompson as head coach of the Cavaliers’ women’s basketball program. Thompson comes to Virginia after serving on the coaching staff at Texas the past three seasons.

The VCU Wilder School’s Center for Public Policy and the Virginia secretary of public safety and homeland security are sponsoring a forum on school safety on April 23 that will examine how officials can best assess, investigate and resolve potential threats as well as the evolving role of school resource officers.

The Virginia Folklife Program at Virginia Humanities announces the 2018-2019 class of Master Artists in the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Master artists are selected through a competitive process in all forms of Virginia’s expressive cultures.

Jerry Sands delivered a game-winning base hit to left field in the bottom of the ninth to complete a 7-6 win and three-game Richmond Flying Squirrels sweep of Reading (3-7) on Sunday afternoon at The Diamond.

Leah R. Johnson, an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, part of the Virginia Tech College of Science, is using a $700,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to improve mathematical and statistical models to help fight deadly diseases.

The excitement of closed quarter racing and tempers flaring has returned home to high banks of Bristol Motor Speedway and for veteran Elliott Sadler, it was as about as entertaining race as “we’ve had in a long time”.

Three St. Anne’s-Belfield School students have received first place honors at the Tom Tom Festival’s third annual Youth Summit Business Pitch Challenge.

This Sunday, ABC News will air a highly anticipated interview with former FBI Director James Comey discussing his new book. Republicans for the Rule of Law is airing a commercial during the interview urging President Trump not to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Teacher and author William Markham will be hosting a book launch party at Massanutten Regional Library on May 10. The Great Bacon Escape was written to teach students how to write.