“I met with Ahmad and his family for about two hours Sunday,” Brown said. “At that point he had committed to no one. He’s legitamately struggling. He’s afraid he’s going to let people down.”
Brooks’ four finalists are Virginia, Virginia Tech, Florida State and Tennessee.
A coalition of education and business interests will be asking candidates for state office to sign a pledge this fall. This pledge doesn’t include a promise “not to raise taxes,” though it does feed off the popularity of pledge signing. A group calling itself the Alliance for Virginia’s Students will ask General Assembly candidates to…
For a jurisdiction with license plates that carry the motto “taxation without representation,” the District of Columbia and councilman Jack Evans, D-Ward 2, seem exceptionally eager to levy taxes against commuters from Virginia and Maryland. When Virginians, who just naturally resist taxes on principle, expressed disagreement with the idea, Evans attacked their integrity and intelligence….
By LACY LUSK [email protected] To develop into a star lacrosse player, it doesn’t hurt to have the right genes. And in the cases of Peter and Tim Worstell, playing for an established high school program was a benefit as well. The oldest two sons of former Syracuse player Gayl Worstell, Peter and Tim starred at…
A growing school system The Prince William County school division will have 75 schools in operation come fall 2003. J.W. Alvey Elementary School, opening in Haymarket, is the newest addition to last year’s total. The school division is projecting a 4-percent increase, or 2,381 more students next school year, bringing the total to 62,389 students….
Blackened wood remains rested on the ground among supermarket circulars, sooty curbs and in one case, a purple headband and, in another, a melted red flag. This was all that remained from 14 nuisance fires set in mailboxes Wednesday night in the area of Rhode Island and Rockinghorse drives in Dale City. Fire marshals are…
The property that once housed Learning Services Corp. on Fairview Avenue in Manassas is up for sale. The asking price for the campus, which has seven buildings on the site, is $2.2 million. Learning Services, headquartered in Durham, N.C., had used the 3.5 acre site to treat and rehabilitate up to 30 brain injury survivors…