Hampton Roads Health: Peninsula community groups tackle issue of childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is everyone's problem. The chronic diseases it causes and the health costs it incurs impact society at large. This year Michelle Obama launched a campaign, "Let's Move," targeting the issue and pledging to end childhood obesity within a generation. Read more...
Eastern State's geriatric center decertified by CMS on Sunday
A litany of deficiencies found in four inspections since March led the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to decertify the Hancock Geriatric Center at Eastern State Hospital on Sunday. The facility, which is close to capacity with 150 geriatric patients receiving psychiatric care, now has 30 days to comply fully with federal regulations... Read more...
Presidents Park in York concedes to economic pressures, will close at month's end
YORK — On Sept. 30, President's Park in York County will pass into history, like the 43 men whose giant busts are on display there. Read more...
McDonnell tries to sell public on liquor sell-off
Gov. Bob McDonnell was on Hampton Roads radio bright and early Monday morning making his pitch that Virginia should sell off its 76-year-old liquor distribution monopoly to help upgrade state roads. Read more...
Carol Capó: Whack-a-mole with the 'rich'
There is something bizarre about watching Barack Obama discover his inner Bubba. When he stepped up before audiences in Cleveland and Milwaukee, he rolled up his sleeves so he'd look less like the "suit" he is (there's nothing wrong with being "a suit," but you've got to claim it). And this Ivy Leaguer, who has a million-dollar house in Chicago,... Read more...
Alternative education program settles into James Blair
— As Anthony Mungin walked the halls of the Academy for Life and Learning greeting students last week he couldn't help but think about how far the Williamsburg-James City County alternative education program had come. Read more...
SAT scores across the nation, Virginia and Peninsula flat
College-bound high school students in school divisions across the Peninsula performed about the same in 2010 on the SAT college-admissions tests as they had the previous year. Read more...
Indiana man's cross-country bike trek to end Tuesday in Yorktown
YORK — An Indiana police officer is expected Tuesday to finish up a nearly 4,000 mile bicycle ride from California to Yorktown. Read more...