DANVILLE REGISTER AND BEE Forty-eight students, including seven local seniors, received their diplomas during Hargrave Military Academy’s 103rd Commencement in Chatham on Saturday.
DANVILLE REGISTER AND BEE As Danville City Council was planning its budget this spring, it was learned it had a little more money to work with than originally thought.
DANVILLE REGISTER AND BEE Beginning July 1, a new judge will take the seat formerly held by Judge David A. Melesco in Danville Circuit Court but left vacant since his retirement in December.
DANVILLE REGISTER AND BEE George Washington High School Principal Chris Carter had a plan to swiftly fill the vacant football coaching position. To say the plan quickly came to fruition is an understatement.
VOICE OF AMERICA JERUSALEM - There is growing concern in Israel about an influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Africa.
The flood of illegal African migrants entering Israel topped the agenda at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the migrants are “threatening the fabric of Israeli society, its national security and its national identity.”
The issue has become the center of a heated national debate, after a series of violent crimes and ...
VOICE OF AMERICA A former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has died of cancer in Tripoli, nearly three years after Scottish authorities released him from prison on compassionate grounds.
Relatives of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi say he died at his home on Sunday at the age of 60. He was the only man convicted in the attack on Pan Am flight 103 that destroyed a U.S. passenger jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground.
A Scottish ...
VOICE OF AMERICA Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has married longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan, and he used his social networking site to publicly announce the special occasion.
The 28-year-old billionaire married Chan in a small ceremony Saturday in Palo Alto, California one day after he took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street History.
Guests authorized to speak to the press said those attending thought they were going to the venue to celebrate ...
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Sudan has released four foreigners who were detained last month in the disputed Heglig region and accused of spying for South Sudan.
The defense ministry handed the four on Sunday to former South African president and African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki.
The four appeared to be in good health during a ceremony in Khartoum, which took place one day after Mr. Mbeki met with President Omar al-Bashir.
The mediator is working to convince ...