
Virginia unemployment rate drops for 15th straight month
Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.0 percent in August, 3.0 percentage points below the rate from one year ago.

Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.0 percent in August, 3.0 percentage points below the rate from one year ago.

The No. 15 Virginia Tech football team hits the road to Morgantown on Saturday to take on old Big East rival West Virginia for Week 3 action.

As Angela Ryan wrapped up her pre-doctoral internship at Virginia Tech’s Cook Counseling Center, she began the process of searching for a full-time position.

The feature film Raymond and Ray, from Apple Original Films, starring Ethan Hawke (Before Sunset, Boyhood) and Ewan McGregor (Halston, Fargo), will shoot in Central Virginia this fall.

For the filing week ending Sept. 11, the figure for seasonally unadjusted initial unemployment claims in Virginia was 3,822, a decrease of 2,357 claimants from the previous week.

A Virginia Beach woman was sentenced this week to 12 years in prison, following last month’s sentencing of her husband to over 7 years in prison, for perpetrating a counterfeit coupon fraud scheme that cost retailers and manufacturers over $31 million in losses.

Miss Virginia Tatum Sheppard will promote healthy choices and substance use prevention to students in Virginia elementary schools as part of the Virginia ABC Miss Virginia School Tour program.

It’s the biggest game to this point of the ACC season. Jerry Ratcliffe and Chris Graham break down the X’s and O’s for Virginia-North Carolina.

A Virginia Beach man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse.

The Southern Environmental Law Center submitted expert testimony on behalf of Appalachian Voices in Dominion Energy’s third attempt to receive approval for projects that it claims will modernize its grid distribution system.
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