In 2010, news broke that then-Gov. Tim Kaine had asked the Justice Department to send Jens Soering, who was convicted of a double-murder in 1985, back to his native Germany.
Boy am I’m glad to hear my guys will open the season on Christmas Day, which is appropriate, considering they wear green every time they step onto the hardwood.
Here are insights into Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State scandal from a Pennsylvania journalist who used to cover them.
The Iraq war is over; now it's time to praise the troops as they come home.
Ronnie Garvin didn’t finish the ninth grade, but he collected one heck of an education as a businessman.
Certainly when an earthquake hits Louisa County, federal aid is an afterthought, right?
It was a weekend with a downtown festival and a Virginia political legend.
For the victims of the attacks and their families, 9/11 isn’t something that’s just considered once a year.
Waynesboro-based Awesome Wrestling Entertainment hasn’t put on that many events — it was founded in 2008 — but its “Awesome Night of the Legends” at Expoland on Oct. 15 stands to be quite a big deal.
There's something special about the variety format of Waynesboro's “River City Radio Hour.”
In another setting, Jeanette Rix's coworkers could be considered wild. But the Middletown, N.Y., resident knows exactly what to do to make sure they’re calm and on task.
While politicians were cussing and fighting with each other in Washington over the debt ceiling, the Mountain Music Festival was bringing together folks of all stripes here.
I decided that, even if the season went on, I wouldn’t drop a dime on ’Skins tickets.
Could we have seen more extreme highs and lows here than we did at the end of last week?
Clemens may have gotten away with lying.
This is what we do for our kids.
I’m not the most frequent of Facebookers, but I see the website's importance.
So ... I'm not giving up my day job.
Riverheads is going to the state baseball tournament for the first time, and the Waynesboro Generals and Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks have begun their seasons.
It’s the U.S. military that routinely overcomes challenges, and, on Memorial Day, we honor, we remember, those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Now, we’re not going to get into the fact that you’ve made some mistakes. We all have. But to say that you’re still around because you’re not one of the faithful who were swept into heaven Saturday? That probably ain’t right.
Valley native Marvin Ward has started a training center in conjunction with his pro wrestling business, Awesome Wrestling Entertainment.
I haven’t completely moved into my new digs — or unpacked the box that traveled with me from my previous newspaper job in Manassas — but I’m so glad to be in Waynesboro as the new editor and general manager of this newspaper.
Jonathan Hunley offers his take on news of all kinds in the Shenandoah Valley. Hunley is the editor and general manager of The News Virginian.
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