Hampton Roads Transit bus drivers are assaulted more often than any others in Virginia, and the transit company wants the area's prosecutors to start getting tougher on offenders. It's not just bus drivers, but passengers who are at risk, HRT President and CEO William Harrell says. He tried, but...
After gritting his teeth and bearing it through an 11-22 disaster last season, the assumption would be Virginia Tech coach Buzz Williams is overjoyed with the leap his program has taken this season. There's no question he's pleased with the chemistry of a young team that was predicted by media...
With 30 wins and a run to the Final Four, Christopher Newport reached heights the program had never sniffed before. But for the Captains, there was more to it than that. "All year, it wasn't about wins and losses," CNU coach John Krikorian said. "It was about competing with your brothers and trying...
Bill Mullis broke his silence about the future of Langley Speedway on Wednesday to say that he must remain silent. Some drivers think that is a positive sign about the future of Langley, which has been closed since January after 65 years of continuous operation. Mullis said he has "signed a confidentiality...
COLLEGES: Baseball: Kurt Sinnen hit a game-ending, two-out RBI single down the right-field line in the bottom of the ninth to give Old Dominion (18-4) a 6-5 victory over VMI for a two-game sweep, extending the Monarchs’ winning streak to seven games. ODU led 5-2 before the Keydets (13-11) scored...
Tasty discovery: Fish fillet sandwich with house-made fries and slaw. Price: $8. Destination: Oyster Point Pub and Raw Bar at Whole Foods, 12080 Jefferson Ave., Newport News. 757-947-2460. wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/newportnews. Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for lunch, 4-9 p.m. for dinner. While the Newport...
Anyone who was African American, standing upright and able to turn on a television knew what was happening in Atlanta in 1979. Everyone had a theory as well, and once the televisions were turned off, barber shops, brownstone stoops, churches, laundromats and grocery stores were filled with those...
The Blue Man Group will bring its elaborate, hard-rocking performance art to the Ferguson Center in Newport News for three shows this spring. The group will perform at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 20, and at 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 21. Not familiar? Words don't really do justice to the Blue Man...
The rock and roll and chaos of the Vans Warped Tour will hit Virginia Beach this year on July 6. The enormous annual festival will open doors at the Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at 11 a.m. on that day and proceed to fill the rest of the day with music and activities. The headline acts...
Bridge name on many Hampton citizens' minds It's not on the Hampton City Council's official agenda, but the renaming of a bridge in Hampton for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was expected to be the biggest topic at a council meeting Wednesday night. Opponents say the bridge should be named in honor...
Poor choices It is a sad day in America when our two-party system's leading candidates are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Trump's boast about being a great business man is a farce. All he ever did was invest in properties, some of which went bankrupt, on which he made money. So if he was in business,...
To drill off the Virginia coast or not? It's a classic pocketbook versus environment dilemma. And it is sure to generate plenty of heat, if not too much light, now that the Obama administration is changing its mind about leasing parts of the Atlantic coast's outer continental shelf. On the one...
Competition is nothing new to newspapers. But the industry is struggling to find its way these days as changes in technology have dramatically altered how people consume news. Now, the U.S. Justice Department has jumped into the ring, kicking us as we struggle with a myriad of competitors. This...