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4+ hour, 56+ min ago (1416+ words) Since her days at Cardinal O'Hara, Doogan has been a basketball sponge. The senior "wouldn't want to spend my last year anywhere else" after leading the Spiders' rise. NEW YORK " Maggie Doogan turned and launched a three-pointer from the top of the key, then yelled, "What?" when the ball splashed through the net to give Richmond a 13-point lead at Columbia last week. The former Cardinal O'Hara star grinned when she sank another deep shot to continue her team's fourth-quarter surge. "I think it's a pretty good stat line, with all due respect," Roussell said. " " I'll take those "off' nights from her." Also fueling Doogan's rise? Her on-court diligence and quest for basketball intel. That sets the standard for everybody in the Spiders' program " including its coach. "You can't fake anything with her," Roussell said in a telephone interview last…...

9+ hour, 5+ min ago (266+ words) Travis Turner, a football coach at Union High School in Virginia, was declared a missing person by Virginia State Police on Sunday. As of Monday afternoon, police were still searching for Turner, who disappeared with his team in the midst of an undefeated season. Turner, 46, was reportedly last seen Thursday. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt, gray sweatpants and glasses, per WCYB.com. Police were sent to Turner's residence Thursday as part of an unrelated investigation, but Turner was not there. Police said they did not go to Turner's house to arrest the coach. On Friday, police confirmed they were performing an active search in Wise County, where Union High School is located. Police did not confirm whether the search was related to Turner's disappearance. That same day, a Wise County Schools staff member was placed on leave with pay,…...

9+ hour, 38+ min ago (34+ words) Michigan is in for a windy, rainy and snowy week, with weather officials expecting almost 2 feet of snow in some UP spots. Experts say another eruption from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is imminent, as ......

10+ hour, 26+ min ago (564+ words) Since 2010, data centers in Virginia have not had to pay the state's sales and use tax. At a rate of 4.3%, that foregone revenue adds up: Over the past decade, data centers have been exempt from paying $2.7 billion. The state lost out on $1 billion through the data center exemption in fiscal 2024, up from $685 million in fiscal 2023. That's according to the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, which compiles an annual report on state spending for economic incentive programs. Those economic incentives are designed to encourage businesses to locate or expand operations in Virginia and include measures such as grants, tax credits and exemptions, business loans and gap financing. "So the tax revenue impact has been really increasing rapidly as well in Virginia." Virginia isn't the fastest-growing market for data centers any longer, Rephann said, as data center growth expands to other…...

16+ hour, 34+ min ago (430+ words) Richmond Public School's chief academic officer for secondary education, Solomon Jefferson, passed away at his home on Sunday....

23+ hour, 17+ min ago (670+ words) RICHMOND, Va. " Patrick Pearson was at his wit's end when he reached out to CBS 6 for help in October with cracked and buckling sidewalk sections near his Richmond home. As we told you then, service requests to the city about the tree and sidewalk right in front of his house dated back to June of 2018. "It's extremely frustrating. You just kind of feel like you are screaming into the wind," Pearson said. Byrd Park man raises concerns about city trees cracking sidewalks We asked the city about Pearson's concerns, and they took action. Within weeks, the city removed the tree in front of his house and worked to repair that stretch of sidewalk, as well as sections of sidewalk he noted around the corner. "We addressed that. I think we addressed it in a timely manner," said Torrence Robinson, Deputy…...