A state of emergency was declared Friday night in Richmond as the rain-gorged James River rose onto streets within sight of the Virginia Capitol, and Gov.
West Virginia and Florida State officials announced the two schools will begin a four-game home-and-home football series in 1990.
Coach Bobby Ross hinted strongly that he would stay at Maryland after the Terrapins squelched Virginia's second-half comeback to beat the Cavaliers, 33-21, Friday and win their third straight Atlantic Coast Conference championship.
A Democratic ticket that included a black and a woman swept Virginia's top three state offices Tuesday, while in New Jersey, Republican Gov.
A hatch underneath a huge bin of coal was opened accidentally Thursday, and five workers standing atop the pile suffocated as tons of the finely processed coal collapsed and engulfed them, authorities said.
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The Justice Department began an investigation Friday into the fiery uprising at the Lorton, Va., Reformatory, while federal prisons and neighboring states scrambled to make room for convicts displaced by the flames.
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operates several geothermal and small power plants, on Wednesday was formally sold to a Virginia company for $9 million in cash.
The state Board of Regents on Tuesday ordered state colleges and universities to close for one week and furlough all employees for five days in an effort to save $10 million as ordered by the governor.
Sylvia O'Brion, 76, sat beside an oil lamp and wood-burning stove in her clapboard cabin on the sub-zero night, strumming her banjo and singing: "This is my home where the bobcats holler and the wild deer roam."
The Homestead, that venerable caravansary in the Virginia hills, will put you on ice in the morning and boil you in mineral water in the afternoon.
The $75,000 Virginia Slims of San Diego tennis tournament begins Saturday at the San Diego Hilton Beach and Tennis Resort.
A fire that officials called suspicious forced the evacuation early Wednesday of about 90 prisoners and guards at the state penitentiary, site of a minor riot last month.
Ohio State and West Virginia will open the 1987 college football season by playing each other in a Sept. 12 game at Ohio Stadium.
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Abraham Lincoln's great-grandson and the last direct descendant of the Civil War President, died Tuesday at a nursing home after a lengthy illness.
a 42-41 victory over West Virginia at Morgantown, W.
The name, Sistersville High School, hardly seems menacing, and for a long time the Tigers football team was justifiably called "The Sissies."
Virginia tailback Barry Word, the country's seventh-leading rusher, was suspended from school