This week Virginia’s First Lady Maureen McDonnell hosted the Commonwealth’s first Weight of the State Conference on childhood obesity prevention. Craig Carper reports.

A new state survey indicates one out five Virginians age 10-17 is overweight, but as Charles Fishburne reports, these numbers are revealing in more ways than one.

Commentator Thea Marshall celebrates the  252nd birthday of Northern Neck native son, James Monroe. Monroe, the last of our early presidents to have been born in Virginia, was both popular and underrated, and his two terms have become known for idealism and integrty.

Over the next two or three years Pfizer, Inc. will pull the plug on its manufacturing plant in Henrico.