Arrest warrants must be served to alleged criminals if society is going to function. But there is no guarantee of safety for police officers knocking on their doors. The grim risks came into stark relief Monday when four law enforcement officers were killed while serving an arrest warrant in…
President Joe Biden is detouring to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job. The visit comes just a week after he sat down with the grieving relatives of two cops killed in Upstate New York. It is expected to take place on Thu…
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Gamers’ appetites for immersive sports video games have not changed much since the heyday of EA Sports' college football. Society, however, has. Video-game developer EA Sports is breaking back into the college football world 11 years after lawsuits over using players’ likeness without compen…
For ex-Derby winner Silver Charm, it's a life of leisure and Old Friends at Kentucky retirement farm
Michael Blowen can step outside his house anytime and visit retired racehorses at Old Friends, the thoroughbred retirement farm he founded in Kentucky two decades ago. The farm is dedicated to providing dignity and comfort to retired racehorses. Blowen's favorite resident is 30-year-old Silv…
Tensions are growing on the UCLA campus as law enforcement officers order a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators to disperse. The heavy police presence comes as administrators and campus police are facing intense criticism for failing to act quickly to stop an overnight attack on a p…
Emory & Henry College senior Destinee Nikole from Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been recognized as Barter Theatre’s First Black Stories, Black Voices (BSBV) Acting Fellow. She was recently featured in the third annual Shine: Illuminating Black Stories event on Sunday, April 21, performing …
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road" and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86. With his raucous rhythms, and backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar’s bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones.
Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has gone into effect, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care. Fertility specialist Dr. Leah Roberts says the anti-abortion laws being enacted by Florida and other red states are being vaguely written by people who don’t understand medical science. Many women don’t even know they are pregnant by six weeks. The ban went into effect Wednesday and affects not just women who want to terminate viable pregnancies because of personal choice, but also nonviable pregnancies for women who want to have babies.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hiked up pressure on Hamas on Wednesday to accept the latest proposal for a cease-fire with Israel.
North Carolina Republicans are advancing legislation to spend hundreds of millions of dollars now to eliminate a large waiting list for scholarships to attend private schools and to meet expected higher demand ahead. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted Wednesday for legislation that would spend another $248 million in the coming year to eliminate a waiting list of 54,900 applicants for K-12 schools. This is happening because GOP legislators dramatically expanded the program last year by doing away with income eligibility caps that had limited the scholarships, resulting in lots of applications. The bill also would spend $216 million more for the program in fall 2025.
A brawl erupted at UCLA after pro-Israel protesters tried to remove barricades at a pro-Palestinian encampment, and activists at the University of Wisconsin in Madison clashed with police officers who destroyed their tents.
The judge presiding over the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to detainees' mistreatment at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq two decades ago is speculating that the jury may not be able to reach a verdict. Federal judge Leonie Brinkema spoke to lawyers on the case Wednesday outside the jury's presence after jurors continued to ask questions on their seventh day of deliberations. The eight-person civil jury in Alexandria has now been deliberating for more than a week, longer than the trial itself. Three former Abu Ghraib detainees sued Reston, Virginia-based contractor CACI, which supplied civilian interrogators to the prison. The detainees allege those civilians contributed to their abuse.
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a multi-part series about The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, which this year marks its 20th anniversary.
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Guit-steel guitar in hand, Junior Brown headlines Song of the Mountains on Saturday, May 4. See him and opening act Rick Monroe & the Hitmen at The Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia.
Theatre Bristol’s taut presentation of Shakespeare’s venerable comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” stages on Saturday, May 11, for shows at noon and 5:30 p.m. at Paramount Bristol in Bristol, Tennessee.
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“Waffle House changed my life… I was going to be a lawyer and then I walked out of the LSAT to go get breakfast. I never looked back,” it read.
In coordination with agencies across North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, Virginia detectives were able to identify several people involved in a multi-million dollar auto theft ring.
The victims told police that after the suspect asked them questions about their Hispanic heritage and their legal status in the country, the suspect opened fire as they ran away.
In Virginia over the past three days, protests at Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Mary Washington were busted up by police.
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The widow of a North Carolina man shot and killed by Sullivan County deputies last spring has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, Tennessee.
A city man is in custody after a shooting sent one woman to a local hospital.
A Scott County, Virginia, firefighter died over the weekend while battling a wildfire.
A judge may soon decide whether to try a case against a Blountville, Tennessee, woman charged in the death of her child in Sullivan County or elsewhere.
Mayor Levar Stoney said in an interview: "It would have been a grueling, negative race, and that is not what you want to ensure we elect a Democrat as governor."
A total of 457 acres of riverfront mountains in Russell County have been added to Clinch River State Park, which will provide new public access to the river for outdoor recreation.
BRISTOL, Va. – Only one person spoke Tuesday during a series of three public hearings related to the city’s proposed 2024-25 operating budget – a plan that will see real estate taxes remain the same and the trash rate decrease.
About a week after legislators brushed off his amendments to bills ensuring the right to contraception and requiring insurance coverage, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he’s still thinking about what do.