
Philanthropist Dr. Ray Gaskins endows two athletics scholarships at Longwood University
Established by a $250,000 estate gift from Dr. Ray Gaskins, Longwood has endowed two athletics scholarships for a high-achieving male and female student-athlete.

Established by a $250,000 estate gift from Dr. Ray Gaskins, Longwood has endowed two athletics scholarships for a high-achieving male and female student-athlete.

A virtual ceremony will be held Saturday to honor the legacy of the estimated 4,000 enslaved people who built and maintained UVA between 1817 and 1865.

The Biden administration has issued implementing guidelines for its policy on military service by transgender individuals, overturning a ban instituted in 2019 by the Trump administration.

The last time Republicans wrecked the economy and the electorate asked a Democrat to come in and fix it, the GOP strategy was to state publicly that they didn’t want to see the Democrat succeed.

The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending April 2.

Fourth District Congressman A. Donald McEachin announced this week five new grants from the Department of Health and Human Services totaling over $38 million.

It’s hard to measure whether having GPS apps on our smartphones is positive or negative for the planet and its systems overall, but some environmentalists are skeptical that they are helping at all.

According to data from the Virginia DMV, 120 people died and more than 13,000 were injured on Virginia’s roads in 2019 as a result of distracted driving crashes.

Excess deaths rose a staggering 22.9 percent percent nationally in 2020, fueled by COVID-19 and deaths from other causes.

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