RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 15 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Governor Roy Cooper says more people rode the N.C. Department of Transportation's intercity passenger rail service in September than any previous month in the 32-year history of the NC By Train service. The Carolinian and Piedmont trains handled 48,488 passengers last month, which marks an increase of 32% over the average pre-pandemic monthly ridership levels from 2014 to 2019. The servic  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 15 (TNSper) -- McGuireWoods, a law firm, issued the following news release: Colby Stevenson, an attorney with McGuireWoods' Financial Services Litigation Department in Charlotte, will join the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office on Oct. 31, 2022. His last day with McGuireWoods is Oct. 21. In his new role as an assistant district attorney, Stevenson will prosecute misdemeanors. "My time at McGuireWoods has been crucial to my growth as an attorney because of t  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 15 (TNSper) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Julia Beamish, professor and former head of the Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of professor emerita by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The emerita title may be conferred on retired professors, associate professors, and administrative officers who are specially recommended to the board by  more