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  • Charged with second-degree murder in the death of Irvo Noel Otieno were: <strong>(top row, from left)</strong> Henrico County Sheriff's Deputies Bradley Disse, Brandon Rodgers, Dwayne Bramble, Tabitha Levere, Jermaine Branch <strong>(bottom row, from left)</strong>, Kaiyell Sanders and Randy Boyer, Central State Hospital workers Darian Blackwell, Sadarius Williams and Wavie Jones.
    7 deputies and 3 others face murder charges in a Black man's death at mental hospital
    Irvo Otieno was transferred from jail to a state mental health facility on March 6. Prosecutors say he was handcuffed during the intake process and "smothered" by seven deputies for some 12 minutes.
  • Bipartisan Support Over Satellite TV
    By Tom Grahamhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wmra/local-wmra-864466.mp3Harrisonburg, VA – Virginia has thirteen representatives in…
  • Romance Writer Joanna Bourne
    The award-winning novelist lives on a mountain top overlooking Afton. So, how’d she come to write romance novels anyway? Joanna is a Virginia Festival of…
  • WMRA Daily 10/1/21
    The state’s high court keeps in place Virginia’s ban on uranium mining… JMU posts a new exhibit featuring women in space, both real and fictional… We go…
  • WMRA Daily 11/19/18
    Senator Mark Warner visits Harrisonburg… The top Democrat in the House of Delegates says he will leave his leadership role… Maybe two heads are NOT better…
  • Novelist Michael Chabon: 'My Family And Kids Have Been My Gang'
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author writes about his relationship with his father, as well as his own experiences as the parent of four, in Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces.
  • Remembering Joe Paterno: What Is His Legacy?
    Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died Sunday at the age of 85. The legendary coach's reputation was deeply tarnished after sex abuse charges were filed against a former assistant coach. Writers and fans continue to debate how Paterno should be remembered.
  • Op-Ed: 'Ban Penn State Football'
    In an op-ed piece for the Daily Beast, sports columnist Buzz Bissinger writes that an "insidious culture of sports in America" helped cover up the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State. He argues that the NCAA should ban the university's football program for five years.
  • Georgia Washington has lived in Southern Heights, a predominantly Black neighborhood in the northern part of Baton Rouge, La., since 1973. After falling ill with COVID-19 last year, Washington was eager to get vaccinated, which is in line with federal health recommendations. But Washington again had difficulty finding a local provider, this time to get a vaccine.
    Across The South, COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods
    An NPR analysis of COVID-19 vaccination sites in major cities across the Southern U.S. reveals a racial disparity, with most sites located in whiter neighborhoods.
  • Geraldine Brooks at the site of the Battle of Ball's Bluff, near Leesburg, Va. It was a bloody battle for the Union soldiers, who slipped down a rain-slicked slope, located behind Brooks, and jumped in the Potomac River to avoid Confederate bullets.
    Geraldine Brooks' Civil War 'March'
    A Civil War battle of Ball's Bluff, near Leesburg, Va., forms the backdrop for the opening scene of Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March. Its principal character, Capt. March, becomes undone by the evils of war and his own moral shortcomings.
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