The Augusta County Board of Supervisors were confronted Wednesday night with a strong lobby from supporters of the Augusta County Schools, worried about potential budget cuts, including the possible elimination of the Shenandoah Valley Governor's School.

After less than a year and a half, 1 East Beverley St., otherwise known as the former Hogshead building or what used to be The Bookstack, is close to being completely revamped.

Wintergreen Resort on Wednesday announced the broad outlines of a plan to combat financial challenges that includes the elimination of fewer than a dozen full-time jobs as part of an overall restructuring of operations.

Augusta County Supervisors voted Wednesday to authorize its portion of funding to renovate Mills Creek Dam in the Sherando/Lyndhurst area.

On Wednesday, this newspaper applauded the selection of a Fishersville site as the home of Mary Baldwin College’s new graduate health sciences program, mainly because the location puts the institution within a mile radius of both Augusta Health and the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center.

Pending the outcome of the appeal, the school system has delayed its termination decision.

A Botetourt County high school teacher convicted Tuesday in Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court of misdemeanor assault and battery of a student has appealed the case to Circuit Court.

Schools Superintendent Tony Brads said the school board will not take up whether to terminate the employment of teacher Victor Terry, 37, pending the outcome of the appeals process. Instead, Terry will remain on paid administrative leave, which Brads described as a "holding status" rather than a "disciplinary status."

Wilton Little died last month at age 92 and was still piloting his plane into December.

When you get to be 90 years old, getting out of bed in the morning can be an act of defiance.

Doug Chittum, Roanoke County's former economic development director, pleaded no contest Wednesday to a drunken driving charge in the county's General District Court.

But the judge didn't finalize the matter.

A prosecutor said George Huguely remarked in one email that he "should have killed" his ex-girlfriend.

CHARLOTTESVILLE — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player and the ex-girlfriend he is accused of killing traded allegations of infidelity and angry emails in the months before her death, with one of his messages saying: "I should have killed you," prosecutors said Wednesday.