William Harvey

HAMPTON — Faculty at Hampton University are dusting off their dossiers and preparing to apply for tenure and promotions after a four-year freeze was lifted this spring. Resuming promotions and tenure will help HU become a major research institution...

Una Imogene King, 89, died Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at Broadmore Senior Living of Hagerstown where she had been a resident since April 2011. Born Feb. 9, 1923, at Garfield, Md., she was the daughter of Claude Countee and Annie Hays Lewis. Imogene was...

Keshia Campbell's tenure as Hampton University's first female athletic director lasted less than a year. Campbell, hired on July 20, has left the school. "In a nutshell, I did resign," Campbell told The Daily Press on Wednesday. She declined further...

Tom Yeager has spent the last 12,000-plus days administering college sports. Few, if any, were as encouraging, refreshing and downright revolutionary as Tuesday and Wednesday. The Colonial Athletic Association's commissioner since its 1985 inception,...

Lonza Hardy Jr. couldn't turn down the challenge. Hardy resigned as Hampton University's athletic director on Wednesday to take the same post at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, a Southwestern Athletic Conference school he believes is close to achieving the same...

Keshia Campbell missed the competition, and the connection. Campbell, a former Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference player and coach of the year at South Carolina State who was named Hampton University's first female athletic director on Wednesday, worked...

The following post is sponsored by Glass Houses Inc., which reminds all customers to refrain from throwing stones. That includes you, Dennis Thomas. Commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and a former athletic director at Hampton...

A Washington County Circuit Court judge will decide next week whether a teenager charged with removing a stolen handgun from the scene of an accidental shooting of a 2-year-old will be tried as an adult, or have her case transferred to juvenile court....

Dennis Thomas couldn't have known it 20, 10 or maybe even five years ago. But as his hair and beard have become flecked with gray, and the former offensive lineman is now eligible for AARP benefits, he understands. Where he is and what he does are the...

The best-kept secret in cancer treatment is gaining widespread attention in part from local news at Hampton University. When the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute officially opened in October, it put proton therapy on the map not only in...

HAMPTON — The budget approved by state legislators Sunday includes a $510,000 cut to the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute. The cancer-treatment center was originally slated to receive $1 million from the state. HU President William...