John Ogle began his career in broadcast journalism while still in high school. In nearly 50 years on the radio he has worked as a news anchor for the ABC, NBC, and Mutual networks and as News Director of radio stations in Richmond, Miami, Washington, and New York City. After ten years as News Director of WCXR, Alexandria, John returned to Richmond in 1993 and organized The Richmond Times Dispatch Broadcast News Service. In its 12 year history, the network’s programming was heard on 20 radio stations across Virginia. John retired from the Times Dispatch at the end of 2004 but is still heard daily as a freelance Correspondent on WCVE Public Radio and on the ABC Radio Network.
Dominion Virginia Power accepts that snow storms mean there will be power outages. It's ready to deal with them and has made it easier to report that your lights are out.
Petersburg School Finance Director Denise Sandlin indicated last week that sequestration could make the difficult job of creating a budget even harder.
On Saturday at the Arthur Ashe Center, more than a thousand people were on hand for the First Tech Challenge, a robotics competition for students ages 14 to 18.
Goochland supervisors are going over the county's proposed budget. They got their first look at it earlier this week. The budget is about 1.5% more than the current budget.
