Charles Fishburne is a correspondent for WCVE Public Radio. He brings over 40 years experience as a broadcast journalist and news executive in Richmond, Washington D.C. and New York. Charles was also a long-time television news anchor and news director in Richmond.
President Obama was in Newport News yesterday, where he told shipbuilders that thousands of blue-collar jobs will be lost if federal lawmakers don’t strike a deal by the end of the week to avoid sweeping budget cuts.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans split up across Virginia yesterday to deliver dueling messages about the need for a bipartisan deal to stop $85 billion in looming budget cuts that take effect Friday.
A Hanover County mother will have a preliminary hearing April 11th in connection with an axe attack on her 11-year old son and arson of the house where she lived with her three children.
A federal grand jury has indicted four former employees of a Lynchburg-based peanut company in connection with a salmonella outbreak in 2009 that killed nine people and sickened hundreds.
Henrico Police have released the name of the jewelery store in Short Pump robbed by three armed men Monday night and released surveillance video of what they believe to be a getaway car.
Investigators from the Hanover County Sheriff’s office and Fire Marshall’s office were on the scene of a residential fire where several people reportedly were trapped early Thursday morning.
Virginia students have placed fifth in the nation on Advanced Placement Tests but have seen two other states pass them by in the widely-regarded gauge of college readiness.
