
State Police: Two confirmed traffic deaths due to Monday snowstorm
From 4 p.m. Monday through 12 p.m. Tuesday, Virginia State Police troopers and dispatchers statewide fielded 3,363 calls for service statewide.

From 4 p.m. Monday through 12 p.m. Tuesday, Virginia State Police troopers and dispatchers statewide fielded 3,363 calls for service statewide.

Delegate Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke) applauded Attorney General Mark Herring’s announcement that his office is initiating an inquiry into Natural Bridge Zoo.

Organizations across a broad spectrum of political beliefs on Monday asked the Virginia Senate Finance Committee to report a bill that would require a criminal conviction before law enforcement may seize and keep an individual’s private property.

UVA basketball is bad for college basketball, ESPN.com columnist Myron Medcalf writes, because the Cavs lack style, substance be damned.

Virginia Department of Transportation crews and contractors continue to plow and treat roadways throughout the Shenandoah Valley as the President’s Day snow storm continues throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Roads remain treacherous and travel is not recommended.

You know going in against second-ranked UVA that it’s going to be a dogfight. Possession by possession. You’re not going to get easy baskets in transition. You’re not going to get a lot of offensive rebounds. You can try to get into the lane, get open looks off screen action, but you have to be perfect with every pass, and make the open shots that you get.

UVA freshman Marial Shayok had seemed to hit the freshman wall, going scoreless in his last six games dating back to the win over Georgia Tech on Jan. 22.

The official attendance per the UVA sports media office was 13,593. Can’t verify that independently, because I was among the masses who had to miss the game because of the heavy snow (and a mountain pass separating my home office from the John Paul Jones Arena), but watching the game on TV (as excruciating as that was), it did seem that there was a decent crowd in the house.

The UVA Sports Today crew – host Jeff Fife, beat writer Scott German and Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham – break down second-ranked Virginia’s 61-49 win over Pitt on Monday and discuss a recent AFP column looking at the impact of a possible change in the shot clock from 35 to 30 on the UVA style of play.

Pitt closed a 10-point halftime deficit to three, but an 8-0 run broke the game open and pushed second-ranked UVA to a 61-49 win in ACC action in Charlottesville, Va., on Monday.
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