From the top seed in the NCAA Tournament — Virginia — to those that barely made it into the bracket — Arizona State and Syracuse — it feels as though everyone involved in March Madness is on the bubble this year. College basketball is in trouble. The brackets came out […]
Virginia, Virginia Tech and Radford are headed to the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament and they now know their opponents in this coming week’s opening round games. Virginia, the ACC Champions and No. 1 overall seed for the tournament, will open Friday in Charlotte in the South Region against University of […]
Pulaski County Schools will open two hours late on Monday in anticipation of inclement weather. Watch for updates.
The latest from the National Weather Service… A complex storm system will develop over the southeastern US today then begin moving northeast tonight and Monday, eventually toward the North Carolina coast later in the day Monday. While there remain some uncertainties, confidence is increasing that this storm has the potential […]
NEW YORK (AP) — With no one-and-dones, no sure-fire NBA lottery picks, No. 1 Virginia put together one of the most dominant seasons in the storied history of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball. Kyle Guy, Devon Hall and the Cavaliers beat No. 12 North Carolina 71-63 in the ACC championship game […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers finished up the 2018 session Saturday without doing their most important job: passing a state budget. Legislators ended in a stalemate over whether to expand Medicaid to about 300,000 low-income adults. A similar budget impasse over Medicaid in 2014 took months to resolve and […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Here is a look at some of this session’s oddball bills and how they fared: —Dogs in wineries: You could soon be able to bring your dog inside with you on your drinking adventure under legislation that passed both chambers by a wide margin. The bill […]
SALEM – With winter weather anticipated to impact portions of western Virginia, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is advising drivers to plan ahead for travel as they may face slick, snow-covered roads, particularly during the nighttime hours on Sunday, March 11 and Monday, March 12. VDOT strongly urges drivers to monitor […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Luke Maye scored 17 points, including North Carolina’s last field goal with 5:33 remaining, and No. 12 North Carolina held off a late rally by No. 5 Duke to advance to the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship game with a 74-69 victory on Friday night. The sixth-seeded […]
NEW YORK (AP) — On the court and in the crowd, orange was everywhere as Virginia and Clemson clashed in the Atlantic Coast Conference semifinals. In typical fashion, the nation’s top team turned in a blue-collar effort and salted the game away, so to speak. Kyle Guy scored 15 points […]
Betty Frances Farris, age 67, of Woodstock, GA, passed away on Wednesday, March 7 after an extended illness. Born August 7, 1950, she was the daughter of the late Henry Arthur Farris and Eugenia Showalter Farris of Newbern, VA. She was preceded in death by brothers Henry Arthur Farris Jr. […]
Jeffrey Alan King, age 36 of Pulaski passed away Thursday, March 8, 2018 at his home. Born September 23, 1981 in Pulaski he was the son of Jeffrey Dean King & Sherri Rena Wright Meredith. His paternal grandfather, Jewell King and in-laws, Chuck and Becky Carter also preceded him in […]