For Charles City County, which had to borrow money to pay its bills, the promise of a windfall has butted up against citizens ...

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Gatorade awards Players of the Year to North Carolina high school athletes in baseball, track and field, basketball, cross ...

The Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Macon will be celebrating its choir’s 2nd Anniversary on Sunday, June 29, at 2 p.m.

Here's a list of places where you can watch the night sky light up with patriotism on and around Independence Day.

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

Hundreds of new laws take effect Tuesday, some demanding new habits for many Virginians, like a measure telling adults in the back seat of a car to buckle their seat belts. Some mean change for much ...

Devon Henry, owner of the Newport News-based construction firm Team Henry Enterprises LLC, was the keynote speaker at this year’s local Juneteenth observance, “A ...

MALVERN -- Patrick Thomas Mitchell, 54, of Malvern, Ark., passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 21, 2025. A celebration of life service honoring Patrick will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 28 ...

A curious crowd on Tuesday got a first look at progress towards redeveloping most of the vast former Northgate Mall into the ...

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 10 years ago this month, on June 26, 2015, legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S.