
UVA baseball drops series opener at Virginia Tech, 2-1
Virginia Tech walked off with a 2-1 win over the Virginia baseball team Friday afternoon in the opener of a three-game ACC series at English Field.

Virginia Tech walked off with a 2-1 win over the Virginia baseball team Friday afternoon in the opener of a three-game ACC series at English Field.

World-renowned filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako has covered the globe. Born in Mauritania and raised in Mali, Sissako studied in Moscow before settling in France in the early 1990s. He now travels the world directing and screening his films – and accepting awards for his work.

Working with partners around the commonwealth, Virginia Tech is poised to help feed a growing world population while assisting the agriculture and forestry industries around the state to flourish and become global leaders, Virginia Tech President Timothy D. Sands said this week.

In remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine urged his colleagues to confirm Attorney General nominee Loretta E. Lynch.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) introduced legislation that would protect some of the most endangered Civil War battlefields in the country by authorizing the National Park Service to acquire more than 7,000 acres to add to Petersburg National Battlefield.

Following the remarkable achievements of the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County to improve public safety through the application of proven research in criminal justice decisions, Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced that the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) has selected Virginia to participate in Phase V of its Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM) Initiative.

April Moore will formally announce her candidacy for the State Senate seat presently held by Mark Obenshain on Tuesday in Harrisonburg.

Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced the launch of a new program providing access to dental care for 45,000 low-income pregnant women, an aggressive initiative to improve the health of women and their young children across the Commonwealth.

Delegate Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke City) released the following statement regarding the Governor’s announcement Monday morning that Roanoke is the recipient of a $600,000 grant from Industrial Revitalization Fund.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that agricultural exports, which also include forestry products, from Virginia reached a new all-time high of more than $3.35 billion in 2014, eclipsing the previous record set in 2013 by more than 14 percent.
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