Watching a space capsule splash down after a trip around the moon brought back memories of my last position with Congress.

Because of more than two years of hospital stays. it has been a long time since getting out. That needs to change.

Mother Nature and her endless stream of bad-hair days (and nights). With the dregs of winter still strong in our memories, Mother Nature is once again covering the New York and Pennsylvania areas with ...

Jasmine Yuvanavattana returns a serve from Jame River (all photos by Doug Thompson). A varsity volleyball game between the Floyd County Lady Buffaloes and the James River Knights looked like a cruiser ...

Floyd County High School’s Lady Buffaloes came oh, so, close to winning their first game of the 2024-25 basketball season Friday night, but missed foul shots, a low shot percentage and turnovers ...

Floyd Couknty High School’s basketball Buffaloes shook off three losses on the road at the end of the regular season and trounced Martinsville to win the reginall tournament opener ,57-23, at home ...

FloydFest returns and does so in Floyd, not Patrick County, in the Check-Copper Hill area of the county where the event was named for many years ago. It returns after a year layoff to deal with ...

Myrtle Beach: Sun, fun and Coronavirus. America recognized Memorial Day this year with COVID-19 cases increasing to a rate five times higher than the same holiday period last year. Cases, ...

When I arrived in Washington, DC, in early 1981 as a Republican political appointee to a Congressional office position, I was told by the party’s leaders to remember that “this job is not personal.” ...

Radar projection for overnight. (Courtesy of the National Weather Service). Mother Nature has another “gotcha” for the weather-beaten residents of our area and other parts of the country. In a strong ...

As I write this on a Monday morning, my legs are encased in sleeves that run from foot to hip while a pump massages both with 50 pounds of compression each hour. The treatment is part of a daily ...

In the late 1960s, a woman I dated attended what was then called Radford College and talked about another student at the then all-women’s school who was put on “social probation” after she answered ...