A more than one million dollar grant will pave the way for the hiring of more school resource officers across the state.
Schools in 24 localities could soon have a resource officer.
The grant allows for a resource officer where none are presently assigned. It was approved by the Criminal Justices Services Board.
(Metro) Virginia Representative Jim Moran voted against the government surveillance Protect America Act twice, but he says that's not because he doesn't think it's wrong to gather information.
Moran said yesterday he's more concerned about the precedent surveillance can set for abuse against individuals because there's not much oversight for the process.
He says that it does have great value for finding patterns for crimes against the country but also thinks it has too much potential to be used wrongly for political gain.
Flat-bottomed boats float along the James River celebrating the history of the Batteau.
Greenbrier Elementary School will receive a 3-year waiver from annual state accreditation because its students achieved a pass rate of 95% or higher on their SOL tests.
Rashard Davis is less than two months away from the start of his college football career. And he's not afraid to try any kind of workout that might make his transition a little smoother.
Virginia athletics director Craig Littlepage announced Tuesday that Blake Miller, the top assistant coach with Oregon the past three seasons, has been named the Cavaliers’ head softball coach.
Virginia infielder Branden Cogswell has returned from the broken finger that prematurely ended his sophomore season with the Cavaliers.
New Virgina Offensive Coordinator Steve Fairchild says he enjoys coaching the crop of UVa quarterbacks, and believes "we'll have good quarterback play here."
Britain was set to enjoy its hottest day of the year so far on Wednesday but woke up to the gloomy news that it could be in the middle of a decade-long bad weather cycle.
Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government spending, the state news agency said Wednesday.
US First Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, on Wednesday visited Berlin's Holocaust Memorial as part of a tour of key sites of Germany's troubled Nazi and Cold War history.
A Pakistani court Wednesday ordered the government to appoint an interim head of the cricket board, after the current chairman was suspended over a legal challenge to his election.