
Boston College rallies, knocks off UVa. women’s basketball, 69-65
The UVa. women’s basketball team (12-11, 5-5 ACC) fell 69-65 on the roadThursday night (Feb. 6) at Boston College (12-12, 3-7 ACC).

The UVa. women’s basketball team (12-11, 5-5 ACC) fell 69-65 on the roadThursday night (Feb. 6) at Boston College (12-12, 3-7 ACC).

The Senate Committee on Education and Health voted along party lines Thursday to report two bills that would protect women’s access to healthcare by rolling back restrictions enacted by Republicans.

Earlier this afternoon, investigators with the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations notified Waynesboro Police Chief Michael Wilhelm that human remains had been found in Goochland County during the search for Waynesboro Police Reserve Captain Kevin Quick.

During the course of various searches being conducted in Louisa and Fluvanna counties today, a body was discovered this afternoon in a remote area along on the Fluvanna and Goochland county line.

Legendary baseball coach Mike Bocock isn’t exactly taking the summer off from coaching. Bocock, who led the Waynesboro Generals to the 2013 Valley League championship, his eighth in 25 years as a VBL coach, stepped down from the job after hoisting the Jim Lineweaver Cup in August, but Bocock will be patrolling the dugout for a new team this year.

When liberals have an issue with, say, Phil Robertson speaking his mind on same sex marriage in an interview, conservatives get all up in a lather for attacks on “freedom of speech.”

A State Senate committee effectively killed legislation that would have taken public notices out of newspapers. The Senate Committee on Local Government voted 12-3 on Tuesday to “pass by indefinitely” Sen. Ralph K. Smith’s SB 472.

Award-winning numismatist Philip I. Mossman will present a program on “The Money of Colonial Virginia” 7 p.m. February 13 and 20 at the R. R. Smith Center in Staunton. The presentations are part of the popular Stuart Talk series presented by the Augusta County Historical Society.

The Waynesboro Police Department has arrested a Staunton man, wanted out of Staunton and Augusta County, on several charges stemming from a brief foot chase that occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the Wilco Convenience Store, 780 E. Main St.

UVa. improved to 9-1 in the ACC, its best start to a conference season since 1981-82. The Cavaliers won their 14th consecutive home ACC game, the second-longest streak in school history (16 straight home ACC wins from 1980-1982).
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