Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt of Portsmouth may earn enough gold medals to fill Fort Knox. Those medals won’t carry more value than the message...

Paul Woody hates daylight savings time because the sun sets before he can finish his golf game. But then, nobody can see his hooks and slices.

How far right? Political columnist Jeff Schapiro says governor-elect Bob McDonnell is a conservative with the good sense to gloss over some of his edgier...

After suffering a dreadful race at Talladega, Chris and George debate which racing movie is the best of all time. Plus, a preview of Texas Motor Speedway....

Arthur Utley is at the Meadowbrook, where the Monarchs are getting ready for their big game against Thomas Dale.

A year after tipping Democratic for president for the first time since 1964, Virginia fell to Republicans in a dramatic statewide sweep that is a historic...

Over nearly 70 years, the baritone-to-bass radio voice of Harvey Lee Hudson Jr. woke Virginians up. It entertained them in their cars, sold them Cadillacs,...

Franklin, Va. grapples with the loss of its paper mill and 1,000 jobs after International Paper announces plans to close.

Michele Shuman suffers from an invisible disease. That disease is lupus, and it afflicts about 75,000 people in Virginia, Maryland and the District of...

Arthur Utley is at the Collegiate, where St. Catherine’s met Collegiate for the LIS Field Hockey championship. Cross country and volleyball seasons...

Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York campaign for McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and attorney general hopeful...

Chris and George debate how to improve racing at Talladega. Also, Tony Stewart is George’s pick to win this weekend, but Chris likes Dale Jr.‘s...

Having previously distanced himself from the president as a potential liability, R. Creigh Deeds now is embracing Barack Obama in what may be the Democratic...

Few sights are sadder, or less attractive, than the decaying remains of a dead shopping center. Malls don’t leave a good-looking corpse. While handsome...

Theirs is a generation marked by frugality. It was a time when a single man could live on $40 a month—bread cost a nickel, a suit could be had for...