A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school four years after the names were removed.

In 2021 a district removed Confederate names from two of its schools. An effort failed in 2022 to reverse it. Another is trying to do it again.

School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County will vote Thursday on a proposal to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders.

If you missed catching a view of the Northern Lights Friday evening, you can get another chance Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The northern lights will be seen in Virginia tonight! During the early morning hours on Saturday the instruments that measure the geomagnetic conditions coming off the sun heading toward the Earth

Round two of the Northern Lights will once again be possible for Colorado as a particularly strong geomagnetic storm interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

Dozens of Virginia Commonwealth University students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Saturday, partly over a speaker's response - the state governor - to campus protests. It comes as US school officials brace for possible disruptions of commencement events over Israel-Gaza war protests.

VCU students who walked out said they were demonstrating support for Palestinians and protesting some of the Republican governor’s crusade against efforts to promote racial equity in education.

Dozens of Virginia Commonwealth University students walked out of their graduation ceremony during Governor Glenn Youngkin ’s commencement address on Saturday. Some students who walked out told The Washington Post that they were protesting the Republican governor’s educational policies while others said they wanted to demonstrate support for Palestine.