"I knew that all these girls were so talented and athletic, and I knew that we would go pretty far together."
A man was fatally shot by an officer with the Roanoke Police Department while attempting to serve warrants on Saturday.
"It stinks," JF coach Scott Zaring said. "This [senior] group, three times now they've lost in the final, and I feel for them."
For Virginia baseball coach Brian O’Connor, helping guide his players where he’s already been is a huge part of the payoff for his work.
Virginia used a five-run ninth inning to advance to the College World Series for the seventh time in its history.
the Warriors erased a 3-0 first-quarter deficit en route to a 12-8 win over the Wildcats in front of a lively crowd at Charlottesville High School.
The Highlanders went 22-0, including four wins over Radford
“We knew our defense could hold them,” Galax coach Francois Herbel said. “I think we can probably hold any team in the state.”
Also, in an all-Southwest Virginia matchup at Liberty University, Marion junior Parker White won the Class 2 girls singles championship
Champions across several sports were crowned Saturday
After Madelaine Frackelton kept the Eagles out of the net for regulation and overtime, the Highlanders leaned on their freshman keeper to win it all on one shot
The Blue Demons are the final softball team standing in Class 3
"I just played for my team and myself, since it is my last game," senior Stacy Lewis said. "It was really exciting.”
This weekend, former St. Christopher's baseball stars Austin Wates and Griff O'Ferrall will square off with a chance to go to the College World Series in Omaha on the line.
Appalachian Power this week filed a request with the Virginia State Corporation Commission to lower the electric transmission cost for customers, the power company announced Friday.
More than 38 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia will be resurfaced this summer, the National Park Service announced Friday.
A Floyd-based conservation group is claiming that Virginia illegally withdrew from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Henry Godbout's three-run homer propelled Virginia to a Game 1 win in the Super Regional over Kansas State.
"Ever since I was little, I've always wanted that championship," Kimber Spence said
Forest was dominant in the first half against the Lions in the Class 4 state semifinals, then hung on down the stretch by remaining poised when things got tight, earning a 2-1 victory
Plus Radford's doubles team claimed the Class 2 state tennis championship, and Auburn girls soccer earned a blowout win their Class 1 state semifinal.
Radford girls soccer coach Cortney Hughes’ plan for Friday’s Class 2 state semifinal against Clarke County was quite simple. The Bobcats were going to play back and make sure there were as many players in between goalkeeper Hollybrook Cline and the ball when Clarke County had possession.
“We had the team to win, just didn’t play our best today,” senior Gabe Huff said. “We made errors, needed to hit more with people on base.”
The Sheila S. Strauss Hospice House plans to welcome patients this fall.
Roanoke City Public Schools staff, students and their families celebrated the graduation of more than 750 students from its two high schools in ceremonies at the Berglund Center held Thursday for Patrick Henry High and Friday for William Fleming.
Brayden Bradbury is the son of a current Roanoke Fire-EMS lieutenant and grandson of a retired Roanoke Fire-EMS deputy chief.
The school's numbers show it anticipates a double digit increase in enrollment the next semester.
Charlie Davis dropped to his knees and pounded his fists into the Spartan Field turf. The Radford goalkeeper, overcome by emotion, raised his head and saw his teammates sprinting toward him. The nerves he felt seconds before were replaced with a feeling of being free.
"I feel like I was tricked into signing the deal," Charlotte Saunders wrote in a March 22 letter to Judge David Carson.
The Blue Demons' historic season came to an end Friday at Monticello High School in Charlottesville
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Christiansburg senior pitcher Kaydn Camper discusses the Blue Demons' first state softball championship after a 6-3 win in eight innings over Turner Ashby on Saturday at Monticello High School in Charlottesville.
Jeff Robinson has been the head baseball coach at Chilhowie for a long time now, but not nearly as long as it's been since the 1970 football Warriors won the only boys state championship in school history.
Some of the old guard was on hand Friday, when Robinson's baseball Warriors steamrolled Lancaster 14-4 in a Class 1 semifinal at Kiwanis Field.
The victory puts Chilhowie in the Class 1 championship game at 1 p.m. here on Saturday, when the Warriors will attempt to end their 54-year drought.
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Andrew McCarthy and the Brat Pack are back, but no, they're not getting back into the coming of age movies that made them famous in the 1980s.
The iconic actor quipped: “If I had known I would have lived this long I would’ve taken better care of myself.”
Kate, who is being treated for cancer, did not attend. Neither did William’s estranged younger brother Prince Harry, who lives in California with his wife Meghan.
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