Maddox Owens, a student at Powhatan Middle School, said he was excited to start at his new school, but that excitement quickly left, with classmates calling him racial slurs every day.
Alger, who has served as JMU's leader for 12 years, will take his new job July 1.
Virginia coach Tony Bennett said Monday that he made the wrong decision not fouling North Carolina State in the closing seconds of regulation of the Cavaliers’ ACC tournament semifinal loss on Friday.
Reid, a conservative who is gay and in a long-term relationship with his partner, urged prospective voters not to disqualify him based solely on his sexual orientation.
Of the first 17 days this month, 10 of them were at least 10 degrees warmer than normal, leading to early blooms and surges in pollen.
Experimental rules will be used during the NIT, with the most notable being the free-throw lane widening from 12 feet to 16 feet, consistent with the width used by the NBA and FIBA.
Henrico County police on Monday identified the victim of a fatal Friday night crash on Mechanicsville Turnpike as John A. Butler, 39, of Henrico.
The changes, which are effective immediately, will help the department "reduce ... call volume to provide better, more efficient response times," Henrico Police Chief Eric English said.
Henrico police on Monday identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed Saturday night on Brook Road as Lolita Brumfield, 52, of Henrico.
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Police said Marcio Urbina-Banegas ran a red light at the intersection of Hull Street and Commerce Road before striking a USPS truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The project will build 2,200 homes as well as shops and offices on more than 300 acres of undeveloped land along Route 288 north of the Midlothian Turnpike exit.
Police said Travis Lamar Paige Jr. on Friday was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Since the NCAA tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, no team that finished at least solo third in the ACC regular-season standings has been excluded from the NCAA tournament.
Seas of green and all-things Irish continued Sunday to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Richmond.
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Virginia will play Colorado State in a First Four game on Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio.
A half century after the scandal over Allied Chemical’s dumping of kepone led officials to take action, poisonous chemicals are still getting into the James River.
"We'll compete for another championship, because that's what VCU does."
The Spiders will participate in the NIT for the 11th time (11-10 record). They reached the quarterfinals in 2002, 2015, 2017 and 2021. They have never advanced to the semifinals.
The fourth-seeded Hokies will host Marshall in the first round.
Richmond earned the top seed in the A-10 tournament with a 16-2 record and went on to take its first A-10 tournament championship since UR joined the league in 2001.
NEW YORK -- As red and blue streamers prematurely fell from the rafters at Barclays Center with 17:54 still to play in Sunday's Atlantic 10 men's basketball final in Brooklyn, one might have thought the basketball gods had decided to intervene.
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Willow Lawn Shopping Center opened in 1956 with stores including Safeway, Giant Food, G.C. Murphy, J.C. Penny, Peoples Drug and Woolworth's--it was Richmond's first shopping center. In the late 1980s, the shopping center was acquired by Federal Realty Investment Trust, which enclosed part of…
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Missed free throws, an ill-advised foul and questionable end-of-game strategy knocked Virginia out of the ACC tournament Friday night. The question that will loom over the Cavaliers until Sunday night is, have they also been knocked out of the NCAAs.
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WASHINGTON — No program has advanced to more ACC basketball tournament finals than North Carolina. Indeed, history tells us to expect the Tar Heels in the title game, on average, once every two years.
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Improbable though it may seem after the turbulence of roster and coaching turnover, the lows of disheartening losses early in the season and the sheer weight of perhaps unfair expectations, Ryan Odom's first VCU basketball team is now two wins away from an NCAA tournament berth.
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