CHARLOTTE, N.C. –For the Virginia Tech football team, the 2018 season kicks off Sept. 3. But for the ACC, the Hokies’ league home, the college football preseason hype machine kicked off Wednesday at The Westin in downtown Charlotte. Coastal Division programs were on center stage Tuesday, and Virginia Tech head […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on ACC Media Days (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Miami coach Mark Richt said 2017 was the first time in his 30-plus years of coaching he had entered a season without a true fullback on his roster. He didn’t like it. The Hurricanes tried […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — After three years of watching his team struggle to get stops, Pittsburgh coach Pat Narduzzi sees the potential for improvement coming with the return of plenty of defensive starters. “I walk out there this June, I’m going, ‘Whoa, there’s a lot of guys there that can […]
Virginia State Police arrested a New Jersey man after he crashed the stolen vehicle he was driving on Interstate 77 Monday (July 16, 2018) in Bland County. The incident began at approximately 5 p.m. when a 2003 Toyota Corolla traveling north on I-77 changed lanes and collided at the 66 […]
Appalachian Power has restored electric service to approximately 20,000 customers who lost power this morning in the counties of Giles, Bland and Tazewell in Virginia and Mercer and Monroe counties in West Virginia. Service was restored around 1:15 p.m. A contract crew performing work for Appalachian Power at the company’s […]
It has gone largely unnoticed, and without fanfare, but possibly Bronco Mendenhall’s plan for Virginia football could be coming together, at least on the recruiting trail. The Cavaliers are starting to win some recruiting battles when in the past, they seldom ever won even one. Since the beginning of June, […]
The Patriot has learned that Fort Chiswell High School football coach Todd Tiller resigned Tuesday morning at the school. Tiller will return to his home area in the deep southwest corner of the state and be an assistant coach on the staff of relatively new school, Ridgeview. Both schools are […]
Luis Gil retired the first 10 batters of the night for the Pulaski Yankees, but the Princeton Rays held the Yanks’ bats in check to sweep a three-game series on Monday night, 4-3. Gil’s counter partner, Wanderson Linares was sensational on the mound as well, and received the hard-earned win […]
At 11:11 a.m., Monday (July 16) Virginia State Police Trooper D.D. Dunford responded to a two-vehicle crash in Wythe County. A 2014 Chevrolet Equinox was northbound on Interstate 81 when it ran off the left side of the highway and struck the guardrail. The Equinox then crossed back into the […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and Republican challenger Corey Stewart have accepted invitations to participate in Virginia’s oldest and most widely broadcast televised debate this fall. “The People’s Debate” will be held on Oct. 2 in the studio of WCVE-TV — Virginia Public Television — in […]