Speeches and debates during the presidential campaign about the country’s energy needs consistently included nods from candidates about the future of nuclear power.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while not ever remembering a school losing both its top two quarterbacks in the same game as Virginia Tech did last Saturday against Florida State ...

For the second time in a year, former Charlottesville High standout Andrea Barbour has left the women’s basketball team at Virginia Tech.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while noting that the Maryland vs. Virginia rivalry has developed into one of the league’s best over the past couple of seasons…

Scattershooting around the ACC, while noting that the Maryland vs. Virginia rivalry has developed into one of the league’s best over the past couple of seasons…

Scattershooting around the ACC, while wondering what this league has to do in order to win a big non-conference game ...

On the heels of a nine-win season and a trip to the Gator Bowl, Virginia was predicted to finish fifth in the six-member Coastal Division in the ACC’s preseason poll as voted on by members of the media at the league’s annual kickoff in Georgia. UVa, which was picked to better only Duke (85 points), trailed Virginia Tech (383), North Carolina (288), Miami (253) and Georgia Tech (195).

Virginia had to wait until Thursday’s quarterfinals to find out, but the Cavs will take on Duke in the ACC semifinals today at 3 p.m at Scott Stadium.

The accomplishments of each of the 32 people echoed across the drill field, a litany of what they had done and planned to do before a student gunman killed them in classrooms and a dormitory.

Virginia Tech students’ lives like candles in the wind.

Graffiti shuts down college campuses

Peter Grenier and Douglas Fierberg, who represent 21 families, said terms of the $11 million settlement were worked out Thursday with attorneys representing the state attorney general.