University of Richmond News

Back in the 1990s, R. Dean Decker and a few buddies from American Legion Post 84 detected what appeared to be an opportunity to do something good.

Jamie Radtke became the face of Virginia's tea party after the first Tax Day rally in Richmond in 2009.

The Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia recently announced that Virginia Private College Week is scheduled to run this summer from July 30 to August 4th and will once again offer college-bound students the opportunity to tour and save.

On July 1, Hopewell will see a new judge sitting on the bench in General District Court.

The NFL has tightened its rules against hitting players above the shoulders, in an effort to cut down on the number of concussions suffered by its players.

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Every year, as one cohort of college students is accepted and another crop starts filling out applications, colleges across the country calculate one final measurement of their admission season success: the admission yield .

Leesburg attorney Deborah C. Welsh was elected Judge of the General District Court by the Virginia General Assembly on May 15, 2012.

RICHMOND, VA - With the University of Richmond and VCU leaving the conference that's based in their own town, is it time for the CAA Tournament to leave Richmond as well? One CAA school believes so.

Worth Carter Jr., president and board chairman of Carter Bank and Trust, received an honorary doctorate Saturday from Liberty University.

A backpack lies on a road after a minivan crashed, near Turangi, New Zealand, Saturday, killing three and injuring five Boston University students.

The University of Virginia's Business School, McIntire School of Commerce has been named the second best undergraduate business school in the Nation by Bloomberg Business Week.

Corfield, the mathematics teacher-in-residence at Chamberlayne Elementary School, says she wants her students to "realize how important they are to their schools communities, families, friends and the future of the world.

Perhaps it's abundant temptation that's got nearly 30 percent of Richmonders classified as obese.

Who better to help Obama get to the Final Four years of his presidency? +1 In the midst of the Obama rally and Cinco de Mayo, a correspondent for 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' comes to town, interviewing locals at Baja Bean and the Siegel Center while wearing a sombrero and Mexican poncho.

John Grant said his first three years on the Springs School Board of Education went by rather quickly, and now that he's found his footing he isn't ready to give it up yet.

Approximately 740 University of Richmond students left the Robins Center yesterday with diplomas in hand after the school's 182nd commencement ceremony.

University of Richmond Chancellor E. Bruce Heilman will speak at the World War II Round Table of Central Virginia at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 2480 Batterson Road in Powhatan County.

" Generation Y is the most entrepreneurial generation ever," said John Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville.

She covers Fairfax County schools. Follow her on Twitter at @emmersbrown A long-running and bitter fight over whether the Ten Commandments may be posted in schools continues Monday in a federal courtroom in Roanoke.