
Final grades: UVa. student-athletes post strong academic fall semester
Student-athletes who compete for the UVa. athletics programs recorded a superlative academic performance during the fall 2013 semester.

Student-athletes who compete for the UVa. athletics programs recorded a superlative academic performance during the fall 2013 semester.

The House of Delegates passed HB 705 (Gilbert) on Monday, largely on a party-line vote, that would eliminate important requirements for an out-of-state concealed handgun permit to be recognized in Virginia.

A recount in the Sixth Senate District certified a victory for Democrat Lynwood Lewis, returning control of the State Senate to Democrats.

For the first time in program history, the Virginia baseball team has earned a No. 1 preseason national ranking, as Baseball America and Perfect Game each have tabbed the Cavaliers atop their polls heading into the 2014 season.

Top Rope Pro Wrestling and Rawhide Productions are now accepting bookings for the 2014 Top Rope World Tour. “We have a variety of event packages for venues ranging in size from 500 to 10,000 fans. Whatever your budget is, we can work with you to put on a successful, money-making event for your organization,” said…

Former Republican U.S. Sen. John Warner, who represented Virginians for 30 years during five terms in the United States Senate, endorsed U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s (D-Va.) 2014 re-election effort today.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of February, as a tribute to art education is exhibiting the artwork of the Shenandoah Valley Governor’s School of the Visual Arts, located in Fishersville serving gifted junior and senior high school students of the Augusta County, Staunton, and Waynesboro Public Schools.

The Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Dr. Peter Wilson, continues its 2013-2014 season on Saturday, Feb. 22, and Sunday, Feb. 23.

Bridgewater College will celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Day and King’s legacy again on Wednesday, Jan. 29 when Wil Haygood, the author of The Butler: A Witness to History, speaks in Cole Hall at 7:30 p.m.

The BRIGHT IDEA Exchange in Staunton will have 22 participants competing for one of two $5,000 grants – one for for-profit businesses and one for non-profit businesses.
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