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Normally by this time of year, students planning to attend Virginia Commonwealth University – and every other American college – in the fall are committing to schools and sending in deposits. But as many families with a college-bound high school senior know, this isn’t a normal year. Delays in processing the FAFSA (Free Application for […] The post How Virginia college students can navigate this year’s unique FAFSA challenges appeared first on Virginia Mercury.

On Feb. 22, 1797, while George Washington celebrated his 65th birthday at a ball in Philadelphia, his celebrated chef, Hercules Posey, slipped from the meager enslaved quarters at Mount Vernon,

For more than 200 years, the story of the nation’s first presidential chef has been lost to history, but a group of historians is working to give Hercules Posey his due.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) have introduced the Focus on Learning Act to examine the effects of cell phones on mental health and academic performance.

Smuggled out of Japan, he became the US' first permanent Japanese resident and helped birth California's wine industry.