
Northam announces Virginia’s new State Fire Marshal
Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week the selection of Virginia’s new State Fire Marshal, Garrett Dyer.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week the selection of Virginia’s new State Fire Marshal, Garrett Dyer.

We woke up Sunday morning to a report that a bus-tractor trailer crash on Interstate 64 on Afton Mountain had sent multiple people to area hospitals with serious injuries.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger is working to advance bipartisan legislation that would expand Pell Grant eligibility for qualifying short-term programs and give more Central Virginia students access to workforce training courses.

Virginia Career Works – Fishersville Center will host an Apprenticeship Information and Job Fair at 1076 Jefferson Hwy. on Wednesday from 10am – noon.

Rep. Don Beyer, author of the NO HATE Act, today issued the following statement on the FBI’s release of hate crime statistics for 2018:

Ten Hokie alumni deployed with the Carrier Strike Group 12 and on an around-the-world deployment from Norfolk to San Diego are the Hokie Heroes for Saturday’s football game against Wake Forest.

ISIS terrorists in Syria escaped from detention facilities that had been run by America’s Kurdish partners in the Syrian Defense Forces following the withdrawal of U.S. troops and subsequent incursion by Turkey.

Cricket has always been an important game around the world and enjoys the second most popular spot amongst all sports.

As one of the country’s most important safe zones, there is never any lack of incentive to improve campus safety.

More than 1 million family caregivers in Virginia provided an estimated 870 million hours of care — worth a staggering $11.2 billion — to their parents, spouses, partners, and friends in 2017.
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