The much anticipated football game between Varina and Highland Springs has been delayed another day because of rain. Originally scheduled for tonight, the game will be played tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Highland Springs. The Capital District title and a berth in the Central Region Division 6 playoffs are at stake. Highland Springs Activities Director Rudy Ward has brought in extra bleachers. Presale tickets ($7) are still available at each school’s front office. If the schools don’t sell out their allotment (2,500 each), tickets will be available at the gate until they are gone.

Tickets for next Thursday’s 7 p.m. football game between Varina and Highland Springs will be on sale Monday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the main office at both schools. Tickets for the game, which will be played at Highland Springs, cost $7. If the sellout number of 5,000 is reached before game time, there will be no tickets available at the game.

Tickets for next Thursday’s 7 p.m. football game between Varina and Highland Springs will be on sale Monday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the main office at both schools. Tickets for the game, which will be played at Highland Springs, cost $7. If the sellout number of 5,000 is reached before game time, there will be no tickets available at the game.

Two Highland Springs men face sentencing in January after pleading guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Wazira Harris. Harris, an 18-year-old senior at Highland Springs High School, died of a bullet to the back April 27 after a large group of youths started fighting and shooting in the 300 block of East Beal Street a few blocks from the high school.

A memorial fund has been established for the families of the victims of Tuesday’s house fire in Highland Springs. The blaze killed Latasha N. Davis, 28; her daughter, Jazmine Whisnant, 8; and son, Jamie L. Whisnant Jr., 3. On Thursday, more than 250 people gathered at a local football field to remember the victims, who authorities said died of smoke inhalation.

Three victims of a Highland Springs fire early yesterday morning died accidentally from smoke inhalation, according to the state medical examiner’s office. The investigation of the fire at 14 Battery Ave. is continuing and the cause of the fire remains undetermined, according to Capt. Chris Buehren. Authorities identified the victims as Latasha N. Davis, 28, Jasmine Whisnant, 8, and Jamie L. Whisnant Jr., 3.

A family of three—a mother and her two children—who died in an early-morning fire yesterday in Henrico County may have had their escape blocked by heavy smoke and fire. “When our personnel entered the home, they encountered hot, thick, black smoke,“ Henrico Fire Capt. Chris Buehren said yesterday. That condition blocked the only escape route, a hallway, from the home’s three bedrooms.

Troy Taylor was emotionally drained. The sweat on his face glistened from the glow of the Friday night lights. He had nothing left to give, but he could hardly conceal his ecstasy. Moments earlier, the final horn had sounded ending the wild and wooly non-district matchup between Meadowbrook and Highland Springs, and his Monarchs had battled their way to a 36-32 victory on the road.

The Philadelphia Eagles are turning to a rookie to replace Brian Dawkins. Victor “Macho” Harris took snaps with the first-team defense yesterday, a strong indication he’s beaten out second-year pro Quintin Demps for the starting spot at free safety. “I had an opportunity and I didn’t capitalize on it,“ Demps said after a closed practice. “That’s competition. That’s what happens.“

Two people died from injuries received in a two-vehicle crash Friday at South Holly Avenue and Pleasant Street in Highland Springs. Henrico County police and fire responded to the crash in east Henrico at about 5:45 p.m. Police said David B. Hicks, 58, of South Ivy Avenue and Harriet G. Meadowcroft, 78, of Longstreet Avenue were killed in the crash. Both addresses are in Highland Springs.

A fatal crash in Richmond yesterday and Friday’s wreck that killed two people in Henrico County brought this year’s statewide total of highway fatalities to 454, compared with 522 at the same time in 2008. Yesterday a driver was killed after she crashed a minivan into a GRTC Transit System bus that was stopped at a bus stop about 6:30 p.m. near Fairfield Avenue and Kane Street in Richmond’s East End.

HARRISONBURG—There’s only one rule when the James Madison offensive line goes for a post-practice treat at Smoothie King—don’t get the small, or else others will laugh at you. The rest is a matter of personal preference. For guard Dorian Brooks, a Highland Springs grad, his personal favorite is “The Hulk,“ a 2,200-calorie ice cream creation. But it’s OK, because the 300-pound senior has to work for it.

When Ken Germain thought about expanding Ken’s Cycle Center on Nine Mile Road, the logical place to build was an alley used as his driveway. A year and a half later, with the economy collapsed to the point that he doesn’t want to expand right now, he finally has the rezoning approved by the Henrico County Planning Commission. The Board of Supervisors will vote on it in August.

Henrico County police arrested a Highland Springs woman Sunday in the armed robbery of a Patterson Avenue convenience store. Fulgencio Maria Freeman, 41, was taken into custody near Interstate 64 and Nine Mile Road shortly after the 7:20 p.m. robbery at The Market Place 13 in the 8900 block of Patterson Avenue Sunday. Freeman, of the 500 block of Mullens Lane in Highland Springs, was charged with possession of a firearm in commission of a felony, felony abduction and armed robbery. She was being held without bond yesterday.

Wazira Harris died too soon. Her family hopes the loss can become a community’s gain. The pregnant Highland Springs High School senior, who was shot to death April 27 trying to escape an eruption of violence in an apartment complex near her school, was buried yesterday at Oakwood Cemetery after a funeral at St. Paul’s Baptist Church.