Sandy Hausman

Electronic keyboard sales outnumber acoustics ten to one. They are cheaper and easier to maintain. But one man in Virginia says he still keeps busy ensuring existing instruments – which can last a hundred years or more – stay in tune.

Friends and family members have been fighting for 30 years to get Dusty Turner out of prison here in Virginia. The former Navy Seal was convicted of a murder to which another man confessed. This week, Virginia’s parole board is expected to free him.

Virginia’s eagle population has been growing – no longer poisoned by the pesticide DDT, but new dangers are putting more of them at risk.

Democrats hoping to represent a Virginia district stretching from liberal Charlottesville to conservative Southside were preparing for what could have been an expensive and damaging primary. Now three candidates are out, and momentum is building for a man who has served in Congress before.

On January first, the Dean of UVA’s graduate school of business will be sworn in as the 10th president of the university, but some say Scott Beardsley's tenure will not last long.

One hundred 95 years ago today, Mary Ann Macham was living her first day as a free woman. Born on a plantation in Virginia, sold for $450 when she was 12, Macham endured 17 years of abuse before prying open a window, hiding on a farm and in woods near the coast and stowing away on a British ship. Now, thanks to the BBC and historians here in Virginia, we’re learning more about her life as Sandy Hausman reports.

The University of Virginia was chartered more than 200 years ago. Today it’s home to many historic collections – 13 million manuscripts, 325,000 rare books, 5,000 maps and 250,000 photographs. But few people know about one of the school’s most colorful collections.

This is the busiest week for America’s postal service, but officials say they’re ready thanks to about 600 high-tech package sorters installed over the last five years.

A kind-hearted couple recently spotted a kitten lying by a road. On closer inspection, they wondered if this might be something other than a house cat. A phone call and a photo later, it was confirmed. They had found a baby bobcat.

Despite calls for a pause in the drive to hire a new president, members of the UVA Board of Visitors have hired the Dean of the school’s graduate school of business to lead the university for the next five years.