HISTORICAL FACTS: 96 - Caught on Camera

Tracking health threats, one sewage sample at a time

Researchers in Virginia Beach, Va., show how they test wastewater for signs of COVID-19, and how they're preparing to look for other health threats.

WEKU · Apr 24, 2023

They're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

WEKU · Apr 24, 2023

Torch-carrying white nationalists indicted over Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally - six years later

A grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate during a rally at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville nearly six years ago

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

Pentagon sounds alarm over Biden plan for offshore wind sites

The Pentagon is sounding alarms over Biden administration plans to advance offshore wind projects along the central Atlantic U.S. coast, warning that almost all of the new terrain eyed for development conflicts with military operations.

Tribune News Service · Apr 18, 2023

Starbucks workers strike in Baltimore and other locations to protest bargaining delays

Starbucks baristas staged one-day strikes Monday at one of the chain’s Baltimore coffee shops and at other Maryland and Virginia stores to protest what the newly unionized workers say have been delays in negotiating labor contracts.

Tribune News Service · Apr 17, 2023

Virginia golf course GM arrested after his phone was allegedly found recording in the women’s restroom

Police say the phone may possibly have been recording on and off for the last several months.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 17, 2023

Grand jury refuses to indict officer for fatal mall shooting

A grand jury has refused to indict a former northern Virginia police officer after he fatally shot an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping mall in February

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2023

Chilling legend of terrifying MOTHMAN and town plagued by decades of spooky sightings

The Mothman was first spotted by gravediggers in West Virginia in 1966 who described it as a 'massive brown figure' moving from tree to tree, and it was later blamed for the collapse of a bridge

Daily Mirror · Apr 15, 2023

Ohio State goes out east for latest offer to 2025 linebacker

While on a visit, the Virginia linebacker gets an offer #GoBucks

USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 14, 2023

Attorney: Mom of Virginia boy who shot teacher was depressed

An attorney says the mother of a 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his teacher had a series of miscarriages and post-partum depression in the year leading up to the shooting

The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2023