This 14-floor oceanfront hotel, the SpringHill Suites Virginia Beach Oceanfront, is on the Virginia Beach Boardwalk. It has 168 rooms, each with a private balcony and panoramic views.
The hotel promotes itself as a green hotel that uses eco-friendly practices.
While Napa Valley gets the most attention, winemakers are busier than ever around the nation, says blogger Jeff Siegel, who founded DrinkLocalWine.com with Dave McIntyre, wine critic for The Washington Post. The two wine experts share some of their favorite areas for visiting and tasting.
The King Family Vineyard, located in Crozet, Va., near Charlottesville, carries on the wine-making tradition popularized by founding father Thomas Jefferson.
Scouts salute during the national anthem at the National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., site of the Jamboree since 1981. The Boy Scouts of America plan to move the Jamboree to Fayette County, W. Va., beginning in 2013.
Racers fly by during the Crown Royal 400 of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at the Richmond International Raceway in Virginia. Kyle Busch won.
Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma and longtime Connecticut assistant and current Temple coach Tonya Cardoza, left, meet before tipoff during the second round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament in Norfolk, Va.
"I consider myself more than one race since I am half Caucasian and half Filipino. Honestly, I check different boxes depending on what the form asks. Sometimes you can check more than one box and other times you are only allowed to choose one.
I probably should stick to one way of filling out forms so I don't skew the results, but sometimes I pick Other and sometimes I'm Pacific Islander or one of the Asian variations. Very rarely will I go with just Caucasian, but I will once-in-awhile. I've heard that you should check whatever box your father is, in my case Caucasian, but since most people see me as Asian vs. white, I tend to check the box indicating that."
-Marguerite "Margo" Forker, 26, Chesapeake, Va.
USA TODAY chronicled 24 hours in the emergency room at the University of Virginia Medical Center, a teaching hospital and trauma center that serves patients across a swath of central Virginia. From dawn Monday to dawn Tuesday, Aug. 24-25, reporters talked with patients and their families, doctors and nurses, helicopter pilots and ER housekeepers about their experiences with health care and their views on changing the system.
Erin Chiu, a resident in the pediatric intensive care unit, talks to another doctor outside the operating room after helping to remove Vada Kellison’s breathing tube.