University of Virginia News

Great Bridge's Connor Jones is No. 33 on Baseball America's latest list of the top major league draft prospects.

The clock is ticking for the University of Virginia's class of 2013. The university's final exercises kick off with valediction on the lawn Saturday morning - depending on Mother Nature.

Emerging folk band The Winter Line will make their debut appearance at The Garage on Tuesday, May 21st at 8 p.m. sharp.

Parents and some board members at Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 had negative reactions to a report from a committee that has been studying advanced learning in the district for the past three years.

A University of Virginia professor has decided not to move forward with his lawsuit against the university.

Maryland's state universities announced that in-state undergraduate tuition would rise by 3 percent, the same amount as the past three years.

Dr. Kwame Norton, the principal at Kilmer Elementary in Cherry Hill, has been selected as the new principal at Cherry Hill High School West.

Charles Brooks Jr., 50, of Greenville, is in critical condition at the University of Virginia Medical center following a motorcycle crash.

Every parent with a college-age child worries about the spiraling cost of education.

While Ken Cuccinelli prepares to be crowned the Republican Party's prince to take over at Virginia 's Executive Mansion, the Democratic Party is rolling out two early lines of attack against the Commonwealth's attorney general.

UCSB Police Department Officer Ryan Smith recently announced the he will run against incumbent Sheriff Bill Brown and Santa Barbara County Sheriff Department Sgt.

Investigators are still trying to determine how a prominent UPMC doctor ingested an apparently lethal dose of cyanide before collapsing at her home last month.

When a philosophy professor is offered an open-ended invitation to give a talk, there is no telling where the discussion will go - only that it will begin with a question, followed by more questions that challenge the subject, even some which may not have a definitive answer.

Pageant season is just around the corner, and some of the commonwealth's reigning beauty queens are wishing one of their own the best of luck.

Marques Paige said he was a terrible student in high school, and he soon discovered that the nursing program he tried at a community college was not for him.

The University of Virginia Center for Politics' latest documentary, Out of Order , has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Topical Documentary.

U.Va. Innovation launched the University of Virginia's first crowdfunding website this week, enabling alumni and others to make targeted, tax-deductible donations in support of specific research and development projects under way at the University.

A special group of students will take part in the final exercises at the University of Virginia this weekend.

Wednesday's deadline for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines to submit plans for ending the policy that keeps women from serving in ground combat positions will open up more than 200,000 positions in the military to them.

As the hotels book their last few rooms, prices are doubling and in some cases, even tripling - from the luxury spots to the rooms with just a lamp, bed and bath.