Facts trump fiction. They always have; they always will, even when it’s the president of the United States spinning a tale that threatens truth.

Jamaica native Barrington Irving moved to Miami with his family when he was 6, excelled on the gridiron and as a student and had several football scholarship offers when his career ambitions suddenly changed from football to flying.

Jeff M. Bourne headed this week to the General Assembly as the city’s newest representative to the House of Delegates, ending his four-year tenure on the Richmond School Board.

After 27 years, Dr. John W. Kinney is preparing to step down as senior vice president and dean of Virginia Union University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology.

Stephanie Priddy, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, is no longer facing a charge of trespassing at the school.

Two of President Trump’s controversial picks for his cabinet have been confirmed by the Senate and are ready to take office.

The woman at the center of the trial of Emmett Till’s alleged killers has acknowledged that she falsely testified he made physical and verbal threats, according to a new book.

The Rev. Darrell Scott, pastor of the New Spirit Revival Center in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, a speaker at the Republican National Convention and a member of the Trump Transition Team Executive

A divided Charlottesville City Council voted this week to move a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the city’s Downtown and to rename Lee Square where it stands.

Republicans are planning to meet with leaders of historically black colleges and universities in the nation’s capital to discuss ways to help the schools survive in challenging times.

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney is taking a cautious centrist approach in addressing the uproar over national immigration policy.

The Virginia Department of Education revised its accreditation list for Richmond Public Schools, adding three more to the list for a total of 17.

Free dental care will be offered to Richmond children who do not have insurance through Medicaid or other government or private programs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Pediatric Dentistry Clinic, 521 N. …

The battle over the removal of two Petersburg City Council members will feature two veteran attorneys. Chesterfield County Commonwealth’s Attorney William Davenport has been named to represent the voters seeking to recall Mayor Samuel Parham, 3rd Ward, and Councilman W. …

A town hall meeting will be held Tuesday, Feb. 7, for individuals and groups seeking to develop strategies to address new policies the Trump administration is ushering in, it has been announced.