15+ hour, 11+ min ago   (680+ words) The thing about Chicago Cubs centerfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong is that he’s hated basically everywhere except Wrigley Field. I discovered this firsthand when I went to a Cubs/Pirates game in Pittsburgh earlier this year and listened to a chorus of…...

15+ hour, 25+ min ago   (313+ words) The Hershey Company is supporting the Boys & Girls Club of Waynesboro, Staunton & Augusta County through a $60,000 grant that will help the club keep its afterschool membership rates unchanged from the last school year. The lowest-cost membership rate will, thus, be…...

15+ hour, 41+ min ago   (220+ words) I’ve written over the years about how hard it is for a Virginia lieutenant governor to get any headlines, given the nature of the job. This is my preface today to the item about the current LG, Ghazala Hashmi, being…...

16+ hour, 29+ min ago   (763+ words) We are living through a moment in time of cascading disorder. Wars, inequality, and poverty are no longer confined to “faraway” places; they are entwined into a single global crisis that cuts across continents, regions and regimes. What makes this…...

16+ hour, 40+ min ago   (626+ words) We’re all used to 2020 election denial. Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has come up with a new one: the Democrats stole 2025! The basis of the rant here from ol’ Glenn – whose endorsed successor, the former lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, lost…...

18+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1089+ words) JMU pitcher Lane Duff recently finished his third season playing in the Valley Baseball League, giving him summer stability even though the pitched for two different teams. “I would say overall I did pretty well,” Duff, who was a starter…...

18+ hour, 23+ min ago   (295+ words) Fun factoid from a recent ESPN column: the UVA Football roster will be the most experienced in the country this season. The data point: cumulative snaps. The Virginia roster has registered 48,313 career FBS and FCS snaps. Per ESPN, only five…...

21+ hour, 42+ min ago   (138+ words) Albemarle County Parks & Recreation announced on Saturday that Darden Towe Park will need to be closed “for the immediate future” due to damage from the line of dangerous storms that rolled through the area on Friday. Crews are on site…...

22+ hour, 43+ min ago   (201+ words) Five people were shot, one of them critically wounded, in a shooting at Virginia State University in the early-morning hours on Saturday. The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. outside a residence hall at the HBCU in Ettrick, a town of 7,241 next door…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (132+ words) The Route 704 (Cecil Wampler Road) bridge over Interstate 81 in Rockingham County is scheduled to be closed for up to a week beginning Thursday, Aug. 20, as crews make repairs related to a vehicle strike that occurred last fall. During the closure,…...