Politifact Virginia Checks the Facts

Sean Gorman has this week's report.

Where Are The Cicadas?

Dr. Art Evans in What's Bugging You?

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark note that cicadas in Brood II have been out in force for a while now, especially west and north of Richmond. Art photographed the individual below in Deep Run Park in Henrico County.

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Behind the Scenes on Wall Street; Powerball Mania; Financial Advice to Grads

Brian Ford in Analysis

Brian Ford gives his analysis of the business news each Monday morning.  (Digital delay may result in a few seconds of surrounding program being heard.)

GOP Selects Cuccinelli, Obenshain and Jackson for Statewide Ticket

Craig Carper in News

Thousands of Virginia Republicans gathered in Richmond on Saturday to nominate their candidates for statewide office this fall.

Seeing The (Northern) Light: A Temporary Arctic Retirement

By all the laws of anything, Winston Chen should not have quit his well-paying, midcareer job at a software company at age 40. But one day he was watching a TED Talk, one of those popular online video presentations, delivered by a New York designer.

"He presented this absolutely irresistible idea," Chen says. "He said, 'Why don't we take five years out of retirement and spread them throughout your working life?' "

Children Of China's Wealthy Learn Expensive Lessons

In China, having too much money is a relatively new problem. But the rapidly growing country is second only to the U.S. in its number of billionaires, according to Forbes magazine. And now an enterprising company has set up a course for kids born into wealthy families, who are learning how to deal with the excesses of extraordinary wealth.

Advocates Struggle To Reach Growing Ranks Of Suburban Poor

Poverty has grown everywhere in the U.S. in recent years, but mostly in the suburbs. During the 2000s, it grew twice as fast in suburban areas as in cities, with more than 16 million poor people now living in the nation's suburbs — more than in urban or rural areas.

Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, says this shift in poverty can be seen in Montgomery County, Md., right outside the nation's capital.

Bans Of Same-Sex Marriage Can Take A Psychological Toll

As the country awaits two important Supreme Court decisions involving state laws on same-sex marriage, a small but consistent body of research suggests that laws that ban gay marriage — or approve it — can affect the mental health of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans.

Nostalgia For Sale As Captain Kangaroo's Pals Are Auctioned Off

The classic children's show Captain Kangaroo aired on TV for nearly 30 years, starting in 1955. After its creator and star, Bob Keeshan, died in 2004, his estate donated a few of his beloved hand puppets to the Smithsonian.

Court Case Winds Down In New York's Stop-And-Frisk Challenge

Closing arguments are set to take place Monday in the federal class action trial involving New York City's stop-and-frisk policy. The trial has been going on for two months in Manhattan.

Plaintiffs in Floyd v. City of New York claim the New York Police Department, its supervisors and its union pressured police officers to stop, question and frisk hundreds of thousands of people each year, even establishing quotas. They argue that 88 percent of the stops involved blacks and Hispanics, mostly men, and were in fact a form of racial profiling.