
Mamadi Diakite returning to UVA for senior season
Mamadi Diakite is returning for his senior season at UVA, after making Cavaliers fans wait out a long night in advance of the 11:59 p.m. May 29 deadline to declare his intentions.

Mamadi Diakite is returning for his senior season at UVA, after making Cavaliers fans wait out a long night in advance of the 11:59 p.m. May 29 deadline to declare his intentions.

For more than a century, Virginia Cooperative Extension has helped Virginians manage the devastations bad weather can cause.

Frank Aylward, an assistant professor with the Department of Biological Sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science, has been awarded a Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award.

Liz Johnson, a professor of geology and environmental science at James Madison University, was among the researchers who made a groundbreaking discovery of how volcanoes formed in the area of Bermuda.

A coalition of rights groups have sent a letter to the Virginia Department of Corrections warning that at least two state prisons have illegally denied sufficient food and water to observant Muslim inmates who are fasting for Ramadan.

UVA basketball fans are waiting with bated breath to learn the decisions of Mamadi Diakite and Sam Hauser regarding their plans for next fall.

Virginia gas prices have fallen 1.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.57/g today, according to the GasBuddy daily survey of 4,081 stations.

The first-ever East Rock Restaurant Week is set for May 31-June 7, featuring new foods and experiences at some of the top independent restaurants in East Rockingham County.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones.

Contrary to popular belief, there aren’t more snakes in Virginia than usual this spring. That’s according to J.D. Kleopfer, a Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries herpetologist.
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