Landesberg’s Oscar moment

Chris Graham

Basketball honors like Rookie of the Year awards are not like the Oscars where we only see the best results of an actor or director’s work. We see ballers turning the ball over on fast breaks and airballing wide-open threes and getting lit up off the dribble in the course of a season of action…

Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report

Chris Graham

Last week, we received more sobering news as we learned that our economy lost another 651,000 jobs in February, bringing the national unemployment rate to 8.1 percent. In some communities in the Fifth District, the unemployment rate is nearly double this. 4.4 million Americans have now lost their jobs since this recession began last year,…

Gov. Kaine signs restaurant smoking ban into law

Chris Graham

You won’t have to deal with secondhand smoke in Virginia bars and restaurants effective Dec. 1. Gov. Tim Kaine made it offiicial Monday with a ceremony at a bar on the strip in Virginia Beach signing into law legislation banning smoking in Virginia establishments outside of a narrow exception permitting smoking in private clubs and…

Scott German | Diane, ‘Hoos surprise Terps in finale, 68-63

Scott German

It’s been a long trying season for Virginia on the hardwood, but Saturday afternoon the Cavaliers may have seen the light at the end of the tunnel. Overcoming another horrendous start, Virginia dealt Maryland a crippling 68-63 defeat in Jon Paul Jones Arena. And fitting enough it was Maryland native Mamadi Diane delivering the lethal blow…

Generals name field manager

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro Generals announced Thursday the signing of Andy Chalot to coach the team in 2009. Chalot, currently the assistant baseball coach at West Virginia Tech, was the first hire by Lawrence Nesselrodt, Waynesboro’s director of baseball operations. Prior to joining Nesselrodt at West Virginia Tech, Chalot was the pitching coach at Gannon University from…