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Fort Lee soldiers returning from deployment

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:08:28 -0400

PETERSBURG, Virginia - Soldiers based at Fort Lee are coming home from a six-month deployment to Kuwait and Afghanistan.

The most successful people in business are the most...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:48:27 -0400

By MARIE STEMPINSKI - Here's a fact that may surprise you. The most successful people in business are the most humble.

An image makeover for the humble coconut

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:19:42 -0400

By IRENE MAHER - It's hard to think of a food item that has had a more dramatic image makeover than the humble coconut.

Northam, Herring win Va. Dem down-ballot slots

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:38:38 -0400

RICHMOND, Virginia - Ralph Northam, a Norfolk doctor who became a hero of Virginia's reproductive-rights movement, and fellow state Sen. Mark Herring won statewide Democratic primaries Tuesday for lieutenant governor and attorney general, respectively.

Profile: A new stage in opera singer Ronnita Miller's...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:50:13 -0400

By JOHN FLEMING - Ronnita Miller has traveled a long way since she started singing in high school in St. Petersburg, Fla., because she had a crush on a boy in chorus. At 34, Miller is an opera singer with a career that has blossomed in the past few years, and now she is going international.

Fort Lee to hold scaled-back July 4th event

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:22:04 -0400

PETERSBURG, Virginia - Fort Lee says its Independence Day celebration will be scaled back this year.

Va. minister gets suspended sentence on arson plea

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:08:07 -0400

RICHMOND, Virginia - A Petersburg minister has received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor arson charge.

Take the sting out of allergies

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:18:25 -0400

By DR. MONA V. MANGAT - Sonia was out shopping for her bridal gown on a sweltering day. She stopped on the sidewalk to throw away her smoothie cup. Buzzing around the trash bin was a yellow jacket that stung her on the arm.

Petersburg cites post office for overgrown grass

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:52:21 -0400

PETERSBURG, Virginia - A post office in Petersburg received a citation from the city after grass on the property grew to more than a foot high.

VSU student president hazing conviction tossed

Thu, 30 May 2013 10:55:50 -0400

PETERSBURG, Virginia - A Virginia State University student leader who was convicted of hazing has succeeded in having the charge set aside after claiming he only entered the plea because he was threatened that he wouldn't graduate if he refused.

Soldiers from Va base set to deploy to Middle East

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:20:15 -0400

PETERSBURG, Virginia - Soldiers based at Fort Lee in Petersburg are gearing up for deployment to the Middle East after Memorial Day.

Perfectionism can undermine work goals

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:47:42 -0400

By MARIE STEMPINSKI - Remember how your parents and teachers always told you to do your very best? They were right. But some of us took that advice too far. The result is perfectionism, the belief that we have to do everything perfectly at work and in our private life or we will be "unworthy" or a "bad person." Perfectionism is born of insecurity and a need for complete control. At work it can be deadly. It can kill a company and hijack careers. Perfectionism can undermine the very results bosses and employees seek to achieve. How? Here are two examples: