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- GREG MADIA The Daily Progress
The Virginia women's basketball team is the first to ever advance out of the First Four and reach a Sweet 16, and the Hoos will look to keep their run going on Saturday night against TCU.
- Associated Press
Saturday's matchup is the first this season between the two teams.
- ETHAN HUNT The Roanoke Times
Tuition will rise for all students at Radford University next year, with out-of-state graduate students facing the largest increase at more than 15%.
- Jason Dunovant
Kids age 12 and under are invited to cast a line for the chance to to win a variety of prizes.
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As the Smith Mountain Lake Charity Home Tour kicks off it's 35 year, the organization is looking for volunteers to support their cause.
- GREG MADIA The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress
Virginia basketball's season came to an end in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday night, closing coach Ryan Odom's first year in charge of the Hoos. They finished 30-6. How Odom found success in Year 1.
- LAURENCE HAMMACK The Roanoke Times
Authorities found the body of Charles Arthur Smith Jr. on March 17, after he had been reported missing.
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A person was found dead in Amherst County where a fire broke out Thursday night and a man was severely burned, the county's fire and emergency medical services department said.
A federal judge has declined to lift a nationwide ban on charter bus company RMA after one of its buses collided with a private jet in Charlottesville.
Kipps Elementary Principal Mark Crummey was among 17 men arrested at a Christiansburg hotel last week.
Read through the obituaries published today in Franklin News Post.
Barboursville Vineyards in Orange County, Virginia's second-largest winery and one of its oldest, is to be sold to a group of private investors.
A year after Ian Baucom's departure, and UVa still doesn't have a permanent provost. A second search for a chief academic officer was called off Wednesday evening.
A $10 million lawsuit accuses a former Roanoke police officer of shooting and seriously wounding an intellectually disabled man who was unarmed during a 2024 encounter.
Read through the obituaries published today in Franklin News Post.
After abruptly retiring in 2019, late model legend Lee Pulliam called it "a complete dream" to make his NASCAR debut at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday with Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports.
Chip Sullivan, a longtime PGA director of golf in the Roanoke Valley who made PGA Tour starts spanning a quarter of a century, died Friday. He was 61.
VCU and men's basketball coach Phil Martelli Jr. have agreed to a contract extension through the 2031-32 season, Rams vice president and director of athletics Ed McLaughlin announced Monday.
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Barboursville Vineyards in Orange County, Virginia's second-largest winery and one of its oldest, is to be sold to a group of private investors.
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