In May 2003, when Marguerite Frauenpreis Sciuk didn’t meet her husband, Kevin, for a dinner date and didn’t answer her phone, he went looking for her. He found her unconscious on the floor at their Manakin home in the throes of a seizure. Taken to the hospital, she underwent emergency surgery that removed one-third of a brain tumor the size of a potato.

WILLIAMSBURG - William and Mary redshirt freshman cornerback B.W. Webb has been selected as the Football Writers Association of America Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week following his memorable performance in last Saturday’s 26-14 upset of Virginia. Webb contributed three interceptions to W&M’s victory. Foremost among them: a theft and 50-yard return for a game-breaking touchdown late in the fourth period.

William and Mary coach Jimmye Laycock was dutifully impressed by the defensive work of Tribe redshirt freshman cornerback B.W. Webb against Virginia last week. But he was just as impressed with Webb’s punt-return work. Webb had three interceptions, the last of which he returned 50 yards for the late touchdown that sealed the Tribe’s 26-14 victory. That earned him defensive player-of-the-week honors from The Sports Network and the Colonial Athletic Association.

CHARLOTTESVILLE—Let a team like William and Mary hang around long enough, and they just might start thinking they belong. Which they do. A raucous celebration 23 years in the making unfolded in the end zone as the Tribe celebrated a 26-14 victory against the ‘Hoos last night. The rest of the stadium emptied out, save for scattered boos and calls for the head of a suddenly unpopular head coach.

For the second straight year, B.J. Cabbell is working on the first team’s offensive line. Weeks ago, Virginia right guard B.J. Cabbell threw in a video from last season’s opening game against Southern Cal. He cringed. Sure, the miserable outcome was painful, but it was individual play that created the biggest regret. “It was awful to watch,“ he recounted. “It was rough to watch. I am so much better now than I was then at everything.“

Lawrence Hugh Rauppius had been the top salesman for Virginia Paper Co. for 9½ years when his boss fired him on Nov. 1, 1970. His boss had heard that Mr. Rauppius was considering buying a competitor, B.W. Wilson Paper Co. Inc., which suffered from poor sales. In fact, Mr. Rauppius had discussed Wilson with co-workers, but that’s all he had done—talked, he said in a 2004 interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

When Colleen Crone Moore lost her job in late 2007, she said there weren’t many work options for her.

Today’s financial crisis is global and it means significant struggles for businesses right here in our community, resulting in layoffs, mergers, bankruptcies, closings, and game-changing cutbacks in corporate philanthropy to our cultural arts organizations.