This week Virginia’s First Lady Maureen McDonnell hosted the Commonwealth’s first Weight of the State Conference on childhood obesity prevention. Craig Carper reports.
Congressional lawmakers are pushing for policy changes that include more funding to improve safety at all mines. Virginia is home to thirty three hundred mine workers. Sara Sciammacco reports from Washington.
Governor McDonnell has announced stepped-up procedures to restore voting rights to non-violent offenders, and promised action by July 15th on hundreds of applications he says are long overdue. Charles Fishburne reports.
Retired U.S. Army Lt. General Gus Pagonis has donated his extensive collection of videos, after action reports, and other material from the Gulf War to the Army Logistics University at Ft. Lee.
William and Mary and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland will offer an undergraduate, joint degree program beginning in the Fall of 2011. Charles Fishburne reports.