Norfolk State University

Across the Commonwealth and the nation, May is the season for graduation, commencement and final exercises at colleges and universities. Emotionally charged strains of Pomp and Circumstance will set a tone of solemnity and celebration as graduates, clad...

Francis K. Achampong, currently the chancellor at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, has been named the next chancellor of Penn State Mont Alto, effective Aug. 1. Achampong succeeds David Gnage, who announced last fall that he would retire at the...

Devonte Dedmon continues to add to a long list of awards from the 2012 football season. The latest is the Most Outstanding Football Player designation by the Peninsula Sports Club. The award encompasses the Bay Rivers and Peninsula districts. Dedmon...

HAMPTON — Walter Jones can trace his lineage back to the first documented person of African descent to be born in America, William Tucker. Growing up when he told his friends they wouldn't believe him. But many members of Tucker's family still...

John Fitchett, a star on Lafayette High basketball teams that reached three consecutive Region I basketball tournament semifinals, has committed to play for Roanoke College. Fitchett, a 6-foot-4 senior, averaged 21.7 points and 7.7 rebounds this past...

Few of the thousands of fugitive slaves who lived in Hampton’s vast Civil War refugee camps were taken by surprise when — on Jan. 1, 1863 — they received word that President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. A hundred...

Football: Apprentice released a 10-game schedule that includes five home contests, the first of which is Sept. 21 against Greensboro. The Builders also will play inaugural contests at home against Edward Waters and Ave Maria, both of Florida. Norfolk...

Alyssa Jones felt numb Saturday as she gathered with dozens of other girls on the basketball court of the Downtown Athletic Club. Dressed in teeny shorts and bedazzled bra tops, the 220 ladies, and some guys as well, were all there pursuing the same...

Few people imagined the consequences when Fort Monroe commander Benjamin F. Butler gave three Hampton slaves asylum as "contraband of war" 150 years ago. For generations, Southern slave-holders talked of their "contented Negroes" with conviction....

The HBCU Choral Festival will feature the combined force of four college choirs gathered to sing in Norfolk. Happening Sunday, Feb. 17, at the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center on the Norfolk State University campus, the event will include the...

The first of what figures to be numerous Division I scholarship offers for Warhill High football star Devonte Dedmon is in. It's from Norfolk State University, which recently signed Grafton lineman Jacob Mazgajewski. Dedmon, a 5-foot-11, 170-pound...

Two weeks ago, Jacob Mazgajewski hadn’t even been contacted by Norfolk State University. Wednesday, Mazgajewski, a Grafton High lineman, committed to a full football scholarship to play for the Spartans. Mazgajewski, a 6-foot-6, 255-pound senior,...