Writing and making public one’s opinions guarantees people will respond. Writers, performers and every human likely desire his or her thoughts, and even their life, to matter to others. The alternative is to become hermits. Like other opinion writers I get my share of positive and negative letters, but during […]
From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham Q: I am learning about the various religions of the world and most of them are very scary to me. It drives me to reject religion altogether. Is being an atheist or agnostic detached from religion? — A.A. A: Atheists say they […]
Today is Saturday, May 23, the 144th day of 2020. There are 222 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 23, 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers. On this […]
Around the turn of the century, Ford drivers—and, specifically, Roush Fenway Racing drivers—owned the Coca-Cola 600 (6 p.m. ET Sunday on FOX, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Jeff Burton won the marquee NASCAR Cup Series event in 1999. Matt Kenseth followed in 2000. Burton won again in 2001, and NASCAR […]
Gary Phillip Lockard, 71 of Dublin, died Thursday, May 21, 2020 at Lewis Gale Hospital – Montgomery. He was born on August 25, 1948 in Abingdon, and was the son of the late Virginia Roseberry Lockard and Alvie McKinley Lockard. Gary will be remembered by many as a great teacher […]
Today is Friday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2020. There are 223 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 22, 1968, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (The remains of the sub were later found on the […]
— The changes in these measures reflect the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it. — RICHMOND— Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose 7.3 percentage points in April to 10.6 percent, which is 7.7 percentage points above the rate from a year ago. According to household […]
Heavy rains and flooding prompted the evacuation of dozens of residences in southwestern Virginia on Thursday, including 13 homes near an earthen dam in Roanoke. The dam-related evacuations were done “out of an abundance of caution” and the structure was never under imminent threat of failure, Trevor Shannon, Roanoke’s battalion […]
Danny Alger Callahan, age 72 of Pulaski passed away Wednesday morning May 20, 2020 at the Lewis-Gale Medical Center, Salem. Born August 17, 1947 in Welch, West Virginia he was the son of the late Louis Miller Callahan & Virginia Dare Webb Callahan. Known affectionately by many as Dan “The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two months ago and sent the economy into a deep recession. Roughly 38.6 million people have now filed for jobless […]
Today is Thursday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2020. There are 224 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 […]
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Denny Hamlin won NASCAR’s first Wednesday race since 1984 when rain stopped the event with 20 laps remaining at Darlington Raceway. The Daytona 500 winner was out front but out of fresh tires and trying to hang on when he got unintended help from Joe Gibbs […]