NORFOLK — Old Dominion swingman Kent Bazemore had the most apt description for what fellow Monarchs senior Chris Cooper looks like when he barrels his 6-foot-9, 230-pound frame around the paint to grab rebounds. “He’s like a grown man out there,” Bazemore said. “Like he’s really 30 years old playing against little kids sometimes, getting rebounds like that.”
BROADWAY – Broadway High School senior Josh Eberly was perfectly content to attend Virginia Tech as a non-athlete, following in his older sister’s footsteps as a veterinarian student in Blacksburg. Now, Eberly has another option: He has been guaranteed a spot with the Hokies’ football team as a recruited walk-on.

HARRISONBURG - What do you call a 33-minute set featuring 11 comedians hoping to dish out a few laughs at the Little Grill Collective? A “Ha-Ha Fest.”
From my north-facing kitchen window, only the top of the peak is visible, like the tip of a huge iceberg. Massanutten Peak. When I first moved to the Valley in 1978, I lost my moorings. You see, I was raised on a grid. The streets of Long Island ran east-to-west and the avenues north-to-south.
With an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 in the Valley, chances are your child’s teacher, your mechanic, lawyer or favorite restaurant’s owner is a refugee.
The Guerilla Gallery Art Show, a one-night-only exhibition by local artists, will be held from 6-9 p.m. on Feb. 3 in the Newman Ruddle Building, 2 N. Main St., Harrisonburg.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January — across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected. Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years. Read More
BEIRUT (AP) — In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday. Read More
NEW YORK (AP) — For leaders of the nation's pre-eminent breast-cancer charity, it was a firestorm they didn't see coming — and couldn't withstand. Read More
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn's Jim Calhoun doesn't mince words when it comes to his health. Read More
ARLINGTON, Texas. (AP) — Josh Hamilton shed no tears, used no prepared statement as he apologized and shared few details about his relapse with alcohol. Still, it was clear he was upset by what he had done. Read More
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Spencer Levin took one last drag on his cigarette, stamped it out in the rough and climbed into the bunker behind the 17th green. He set up quickly, took a quick glance at the hole and splashed out. Read More
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — "Crucial" issues remain to be resolved in Greece's critical negotiations over a second multibillion euro international bailout, and talks would continue into the weekend, the country's Finance Minister said early Saturday. Read More
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" to the United States, which rejected a pipeline from Canada to Texas. Read More
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Some shareholders have sued Hecla Mining Co. for stock losses they endured after the federal government shut down the Lucky Friday Mine for safety violations. Read More
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Actor Jason Segel has been honored as Man of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Read More
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for a deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on suspicion of drunken driving want to call the Oscar-winner as a witness during an upcoming trial to determine if the officer suffered discrimination because of the case. Read More
PARIS (AP) — What does it take to shock in the land of the Gallic shrug? Ads that suggest adulterous oral sex, according to complaints about new movie "Les Infideles." Read More