Clarence Franklin Osborne was 27 years old when killed in action in the final weeks of World War II and was buried in the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. His body was later returned to ...

Milauna Jackson who plays Captain Campbell in the Netflix film The Six Triple Eight, will join critically acclaimed producer of the Netflix film The Six Triple Eight, bestselling author, and former ...

“President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. ‘Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of ...

I miss the department stores of downtown Richmond from years past. The Nordstroms and Macys of the day were Miller & Rhoads and Thalhimer’s, multi-story buildings that faced Broad and Grace Streets ...

As I was growing up, a tradition in our family was for my parents to give us ornaments each year from places they had traveled. My husband and I continued the tradition with our children … so we have ...

In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked her father if there was really a Santa Claus. He suggested she write to The Sun, a prominent New York newspaper because, as he said, “If you see it in ...

“I no longer feel confident predicting political events here. Economic policy? I feel good about using bandwidth.” – Yours truly, literally less than a week ago. “Just when I thought I was out, they ...

[Editor’s note: Facebook memories reminded of the largest political gathering I’ve ever seen in the Staunton-Waynesboro-Augusta County area: 2012’s October rally held at Augusta County’s Expoland in ...

Tenet Media, the Tennessee-based home of several far right, Trumpist social media “influencers,” has been a recipient of Russian funding totaling nearly $10 million (Tennessean). An indictment ...

All of us here at Bearing Drift offer our sincerest condolences to former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore and his sons, Jay and Ashton, at the death of his wife and their mom, Roxane Gilmore.

Vice President Kamala Harris – the current Democratic nominee for president – announced her selection for running mate/successor today: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The deep-dive on Walz’s tenure as ...

This was from my endorsement of President Biden’s re-election just under four months ago: There will be, at most, six candidates on the presidential ballot here in Virginia (or anywhere else): ...