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The Virginia baseball team is headed to Mississippi this weekend, and hopes its next sojourn takes it further west to Nebraska. The Cavs (46-12-1) will square off with Ole Miss (43-18) in a best-of-three Super Regional series at Oxford, Miss., beginning Friday at 2 p.m. Game 2 on Saturday is scheduled for a noon start….
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– Local News: Pilot injured in Augusta chopper crash – Event: Drinking Liberally Staunton to meet today – Event: Special night at Pump It Up for autistic children – Local News: Assessments lawsuit update
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When I was 16 I had an abortion. It was both difficult to arrange and pay for. Yet this pivotal event resulted in a lifelong commitment to working towards a world with reproductive justice for everyone. The sad part isn’t that I had an abortion, but that there were so many barriers. Even more disheartening…
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When Jerry Falwell Jr. closed down the Liberty University College Democrats, a student club, we at the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia were inundated with calls asking when we were going to file suit against the school for violating the constitutional rights of the club members.
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Creigh Deeds has moved from the back of the pack to the front with a week to go in the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial contest, according to a poll released Tuesday. Deeds registered at 27 percent in the Public Policy Polling poll, with Terry McAuliffe at 24 percent and Brian Moran at 22 percent. The…
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A Virginia State Police review of the investigation into a 1967 double murder in Staunton and the role that a Staunton Police Department investigator may have played in helping the perpetrator get away with the murders has yielded nothing new. “Unfortunately, due to the significant lapse of time since the murders occurred and the fact…
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– Local News: Da Bears wreaking havoc in Da ‘Boro – Politics: Shannon gets public-safety endorsement – State News: AG announces price-gouging settlement – Local News: Clean Streams Initiative among conservation grant recipients
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Gas prices are up 40 cents a gallon from where they were a month ago, as a refueling economy has pushed demand. The average for a gallon of regular unleaded nationwide was at $2.47 Monday morning, with Virginia at $2.37 a gallon, up from the $1.94-a-gallon average of a month ago, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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Hod O’Brien – a great name for a jazz pianist, isn’t it? You can smell the smoke in the air at the lounge at the drop of the words. Chances are you hadn’t heard the name before, unless you’re in the jazz cognoscenti, in which case you got out of your chair and bowed in…
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It was a clear fall day back in 1995 when you could almost see forever from Ambassador Gordon Beyer’s Sky Farm. Gordon was hosting a fundraiser for an area Democrat. As an a newcomer, I thought I should go. I also wanted to find out what local Democrats were like? I had my quota of…
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