
VMI recruiting class to add four
VMI basketball recently added three new recruits this past spring – bringing the total number of new faces who will suit up for the Keydets in the 2012-13 season to four

VMI basketball recently added three new recruits this past spring – bringing the total number of new faces who will suit up for the Keydets in the 2012-13 season to four

Sorry that we were a bit late getting to covering the news of the day involving the powerful, deadly storms that killed eight in Virginia and have left just short of a million people in the Commonwealth without power at this writing. My first priority upon waking up this Saturday morning wasn’t reporting the news – it was helping my sister manage after having made the news. Her Crimora mobile home was condemned after winds from Friday’s storms ripped the roof from the top and peeled it back like a lid on a can of peaches

Virginia Department of Transportation crews have been working overnight and today clearing downed trees and debris from roads in the wake of last night’s storm. Currently, 250 roads are affected statewide; the majority are secondary routes and some primaries. All interstates are clear

Dominion Virginia Power crews are assessing damage and working with local emergency personnel today to return electrical service to more than 900,000 customers, including more than 98,000 in the Shenandoah Valley, focusing first on public health and safety facilities including public cooling locations

Yesterday evening’s severe weather has caused outages in the city of Winchester, Augusta, Frederick, Highland, Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren counties of Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative’s (SVEC) service region. As of 1:30 p.m., approximately 27,590 members are without power in the SVEC service area

Virginia is under a state of emergency following dangerous storms that left downed trees and power lines across an eight-state swath of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

Gov. Bob McDonnell has reappointed Helen Dragas to a second four-year term to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, defying critics and apparently endorsing the failed putsch led by the rector to remove UVa. President Teresa Sullivan from office

Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed Executive Directive No. 4 establishing a workgroup to develop a plan for implementing a program to screen babies born in Virginia for a life-threatening condition called critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). In Virginia, almost 4 in 1,000 newborns are diagnosed each year with one of the defects causing CCHD

Former Virginia standout Mike Scott was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the second round of the 2012 NBA Draft on Thursday night. Scott was the 43rd overall pick of the draft

I am disappointed in the court’s ultimate decision today. Virginia’s legal argument has always been that there was no constitutional basis for the federal health insurance mandate, and that the health care law should be struck down in its entirety. The court’s decision has saddled us with a budget-busting health care law that will most assuredly increase health care costs and thrust a new tax on the American people
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