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King University receives $14 million from Bill Gatton Foundation
King University in Bristol, Tennessee, has announced a $14 million gift from the Bill Gatton Foundation. The funding will be used mainly for scholarships for students in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, including $4 million for matching gift opportunities over the next two years. The Gatton Challenge matching gift program will mirror donations with an unrestricted match of up to $2 million in 2024 and $2 million in 2025.
Steve McNair's Autopsy Report Explains in Graphic Details How the Football Player Was Killed
Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was born on Valentine's Day, and was brutally murdered on the Fourth of July in 2009. This information feels both significant and insignificant in a way that is difficult to articulate. It's as if his life was bookmarked by different causes for celebration, even as the end was clearly devastating.Steve was killed by his mistress, a young woman by the name of Sahel Jenni Kazemi. The 20-year-old had been dating the recently retired 36-year-old football player when she began to suspect she wasn't the only person he was stepping out with. The two spent their...
The Lucky Fin rebrands to Johnson City Furniture Co., announces new location
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A local business based in the Boones Creek area named the Lucky Fin Homestore is rebranding and adding a new location on North Roan Street in the former Pier 1 Imports space. The Lucky Fin has renamed itself to Johnson City Furniture Co., and signage posted at the Johnson City […]
Virginia home sales spike in July
Virginia home sales were up 10.7% in July, when compared to the same month last year, according to the Virginia Home Sales Report released on Wednesday by Virginia Realtors. The report showed that inventory continued to expand in the state, with 19,162 active listings statewide at the end of July, which is 4,223 more listings than a year ago – a 28.3% increase. There also were also 12,439 new listings that came onto the market in Virginia in July, a 13.6% increase (nearly 1,500 more homes) when compared to the same month in 2023.
Pinpoint Weather: Brief taste of fall in August
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — High pressure will control Southwest and Central Virginia for the remainder of the week. Mostly dry weather will remain in the forecast with cooler-than-average temperatures sticking around through Friday. It will be a fall-like start to Wednesday with morning temperatures starting in the crisp 40s and 50s. More sunshine is expected across […]
Virginia businessman faces up to 10 years in prison for $218K Medicaid billing scheme
A Virginia businessman was convicted of two counts of healthcare fraud related to a Medicaid billing scheme. Richard Davis, 51, of Powhatan, led a fraud operation that resulted in a loss to Medicaid of at least $218,392 due to excessive overbilling for services provided. Davis was the sole owner of...
Virginia business owner guilty in $12 million multi-state catalytic converter theft ring
A North Carolina man pled guilty to his participation in a multi-state catalytic converter theft ring operated through his business in Emporia. Theodore Nicholas Papouloglou, 45, aa scrap metal dealer, used his business, DG Auto, to purchase stolen catalytic converters from thieves. According to court documents, dating back to 2020,...
Most Northern Virginia land is reserved for single-family detached homes, research finds
This story was reported by WAMU . On just over 70% of the developable land in Northern Virginia, there’s only one thing you can build: a single-family detached house. That’s the lead finding of research into the region’s zoning restrictions from a group of scholars at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.
Virginia abandoned mine land receives federal boost
(The Center Square) — Old coal mining sites in Southwest Virginia are being repurposed into places of business, outdoor recreation, entertainment, and greener forms of energy production thanks to $10 million in recently awarded federal grants. Since 2017, various development projects in Southwest Virginia have received federal funding through the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Program. The program contributes to projects involving mine land that was active before 1977 in...
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