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NSU leader takes long strides in short time
Hamptonroads.com Education
Feb 06NORFOLK It happened to Gary McCollum a few weeks ago, just as it has to other Norfolk State University board members. Someone stopped McCollum, the rector of the Board of Visitors, to say: “Wow, your new president at Norfolk State is everywhere.” »
Party registration bill advances in Senate
Roanoke Times Blue Ridge Caucus
Jan 31Virginians would state their political party affiliation when they register to vote beginning next year, under legislation that cleared a divided state Senate committee today. The bill also would give the state’s political parties the authority to deci... »
Protesters rally against bills tightening Va. election laws
Roanoke Times Blue Ridge Caucus
Jan 31RICHMOND – On a crucial day in the General Assembly for legislative measures aimed at tightening Virginia’s election laws, several hundred people joined a Capitol Square rally today where speakers lambasted the bills, calling them thinly veiled attempt... »
Woman dies after being struck by car
WVBT TV Local News
Jan 28A woman was killed when she was struck by a car while walking on Military Highway in Chesapeake in the early hours Saturday morning. »
911 calls from school bus accident in Currituck County
Wtkr - News
Jan 27Twenty-four-year-old Michael Marzano was wheeled into Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Thursday night after his car slammed into a Currituck County school bus on Highway 168. His seven-month-old followed behind in an ambulance.Audrey Scanlon owns a piz... »
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Let NSU pay
Hamptonroads.com Letter To Editors
Jan 25In the beginning of the light rail project, Norfolk State University fussed and whined that it did not want the Tide station on the campus side of Brambleton Avenue. Hampton Roads Transit and the city spent a lot of money moving the station across Bram... »
System worth keeping
Hamptonroads.com Letter To Editors
Jan 16The League of Women Voters of South Hampton Roads is very concerned about Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposal to outsource background checks on gun purchases solely to the federal government, eliminating Virginia’s more thorough background checks. »
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum and Lightship PORTSMOUTH
Smartregion.org
Jan 13PATHS TO FREEDOM at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum on February 4, 2012, Saturday, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum and Lightship Portsmouth present “Paths to Freedom,” celebrating the African American heritage of Portsmouth.... »
NSU Professor Named Emerging Scholar By Diverse Magazine
New Journal & Guide
Jan 11NORFOLK Dr. Frances Williams, associate professor of engineering at Norfolk State University, is among the 2012 class of Emerging Scholars named by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine. »
Full steam ahead on school plans
Smartregion.org
Dec 12By Danielle Walker for Inside Business, originally posted on November 4, 2011 Leaders in the region are shifting into go-mode to create science, technology, engineering and math-related educational havens. Hampton officials are discussing plans for a r... »