Petersburg (Petersburg, Virginia)

COLLEGES CAA tournament (at JMU’s Eagle Field in Harrisonburg): Games TBA Track and field NCAA Division I East Preliminary (in Greensboro, N.C.) NCAA Division III championships (in LaCrosse, Wis.) Sailing ICSA Women’s National Championships...

Baseball: Christopher Newport’s Austin Chrismon (7-4), a Menchville High graduate, was named the d3baseball.com South Region Pitcher of the Year. He posted a 1.74 earned-run average and completed three of his 11 starts, striking out 86 in 78...

Baseball Virginia Independent Schools semifinals (at Shepherd Stadium in Colonial Heights): Division III: No. 3 Fuqua 5, No. 2 Southampton Ac. 2 Division II: No. 3 Greenbrier Christian 3, No. 2 Steward 1 Division I: Trinity Episcopal d. Flint Hill  ...

A push by the Department of Veterans Affairs to clear a backlog of claims by mandating 20 hours overtime a month for claims handlers will do little to ease veterans' frustration in the view of some handlers and their union. The VA's regional office in...

The HCA Virginia Health System will see three top management changes within the next couple of months. Pat Farrell, chief executive officer of Henrico Doctors' Hospital, has decided to begin new chapter in his life. "Pat decided to make a life change,...

COLLEGES Baseball Georgia State at William and Mary (doubleheader), 2 p.m. Old Dominion at Wofford, 6 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament elimination games (at Norfolk State’s Miller Field): Norfolk State vs. N.C. Central, 10 a.m. N.C. A&T...

University of North Carolina graduate Kimberlie Farlow decided in 1983 to leave her hometown and college town of Chapel Hill, N.C., and pursue a career in marketing and public relations in Richmond. Her friends, she said, gave her some cautionary...

The mothers of Virginia State University graduates filled the seats of Richmond Coliseum yesterday to receive the best Mother's Day gifts -- watching their children become degree holders. Keynote speaker Ed Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning journalist,...

Hazing charges were dismissed Friday against two Virginia State University students and another man, four weeks after they pleaded guilty to the offenses that Petersburg's chief prosecutor promised to drop if they complied with several conditions....

It was a baptism-like rite by the Appomattox River, with only a small campfire for light, that claimed the lives of two Virginia State University students 34 years ago. The drowning deaths of Norsha Lynn Delk and Robert L. Etheridge were ruled...

It took a jury about an hour and a half to convict a Petersburg man of murder and abduction for the violent beating death of a 90-year-old man and the abduction of that man's daughter. On Tuesday, a jury convicted 47-year-old Carnell Jackson of first-...

It will be a weekend filled with "Lincoln" events related to both the Steven Spielberg movie and the real-life visits of the 16th president in the final weeks of his life and the Civil War. In a weekend that combines Hollywood and history, and...