Zach Crizer

The children of a tobacco farming patriarch, who overcame a segregated society and the plight of the industry…

Which way will the wind blow when one of America’s most conservative cities heads to the polls with the chanc…

Examining a starting pitcher giving an offspeed pitch an outsized role: Matt Shoemaker.

The King grant, among the largest in the 15-year history of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Communit…

For reasons that have ranged from pragmatic to paranoid, the tobacco commission in its 15-year history has la…

In hallowed halls across the Roanoke Valley and the country, Presbyterians are in the throes of hushed confli…

Five years ago, Phillip Wellman’s on-field theatrics earned him an ejection — and a spot in YouTube lore. Now…

Behind his desk at the job he never thought he could get, Sam Coles is the focal point of two armchairs. But …

M. Caldwell Butler died 40 years after his stand sent a signal that President Richard Nixon was certain to fa…

New leadership wants to turn Boones Mill from a bleak wayside into a destination.

A survey of the most novel tactics employed by the heroes in the blood sport that is pitchers trying to hit.

An ode to the guitar-strumming beanpole whose career went wildly right.

How an expansion baseball franchise might take aim at the World Series in its very first season.

Are rookies actually hitting better right away? Or does it just seem that way?

Diving into the 1 percent chance of Mike Trout "breaks out" and posts one of the best offensive seasons ever.

Joey Votto expands the bounds of possibility at the plate.

The story of the man named Buzzy was not destined to follow the plodding formula of most obituaries, that muc…

Motorists who use MTA bridges are victims of highway robbery. Drivers are paying more -- but their money is b…

The auctioneer, as the bids began to slow down in Friday night’s sale of Sam Witcher’s long-embattled estate,…