
Projection: Obama takes Virginia
CNN is projecting that Democrat Barack Obama will win Virginia and its 13 electoral votes.

CNN is projecting that Democrat Barack Obama will win Virginia and its 13 electoral votes.

James Madison redshirt junior quarterback Justin Thorpe (Richmond, Va./Varina) was named the Colonial Athletic Association’s Offensive Player of the Week, announced by the league today. It is his first weekly honor of 2012 and third of his career (including a pair of Rookie of the Week honors in 2009) as well as the fifth for JMU this year.

There’s many differing opinions as to which team is best in the Football Championship Subdivision. In two weeks, it will start to sort itself out on the field with the beginning of a 20-team national playoff.

Secretary of Transportation Sean T. Connaughton and the Commonwealth Transportation Board are holding meetings across Virginia so the public may discuss projects and programs in the CTB’s current Six-Year Improvement Program and provide comments for the development of the Fiscal Years 2014-2019 SYIP, including multimodal initiatives for highways, rail and transit.

In two new ads released on Wednesday, Democratic Party Senate nominee Tim Kaine presented Virginia voters with his closing argument – sharing his economic priorities, his commitment to the Commonwealth of Virginia, his record of finding common ground in Richmond, and his committment to doing the same in Washington.

UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the media in advance of the Cavs’ game this weekend with N.C. State.

A new set of comedians will bring a second season of comedy to WTA’s Gateway in October. David Wingfield and his fellow Richmond comedians Jesse Jarvis and Jesse Thomas promise a night of PG-13 humor. It will be a great way for audiences to spend a Saturday night. Wingfield and Associates Comedy Night is Saturday October 27 at 8 pm at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro.

An innovative art installation, Concatenation, will be hosted in an unlikely site certain to challenge the traditional art-going experience. Virginia-based Italian artist Daniel Rossi and Dutch artist Dymphna de Wild will create site-specific installations in the transformed barn on historic Cobble Hill Farm in Staunton. The barn will be converted into a one-of-a-kind art experience for one day only, Sunday, October 28th from 3-8 p.m.

Delphine Enterprise Management, a real-estate holding company operated by Allied Logistics, announced on Wednesday plans that will breathe new life into a key Waynesboro industrial site, bolstering a push to lure more skilled and high-tech manufacturing jobs to Central Virginia.

When you’re asked about your team’s ongoing five-game losing streak, and your response is to start talking about how the program is having success in the classroom and in other areas of life, well, you’re pretty much Ted Roof on your way out the door at Duke, right?