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Virginia Tech 2025 football schedule, opponents: Everything we know so far
The Virginia Tech football team opens the 2024 season in 11 days at Vanderbilt against the Commodores in Nashville. It's the first of four straight non-conference games for Brent Pry's team to begin the season before their eight-game ACC schedule begins on Sept. 27 at Miami in an early-season conference showdown between two teams with a lot of expectations.
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 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...
Virginia impacted by salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cucumbers, hundreds sick across 31 states
A multi-state salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers has sickened at least 449 people across in 31 states -- including Virginia -- with 125 of those needing hospitalization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said last week.
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