While mountain biking around Richmond isn't your typical police officer's afternoon, 18 officers did just that. They were training for bike patrol in a 40-hour cyclist certification program run by Virginia Commonwealth University Police. Sgt. William Butters of University Police led five days of classroom and outdoor training aimed at making law enforcement more mobile - and friendlier.
If you are one of those students looking for a chance to make a name for yourself as a programmer, a visual artist or even a musician who can manipulate digital sound, the Red Bull brand energy drink is sponsoring a contest that calls on the creative young minds of America's college campuses to create their next interactive advertisement - a video game based on the Red Bull X-Fighters, the official freestyle motocross team of Red Bull.
Monday's SGA Presidential Roundtable meeting focused primarily on Lotus Notes, VCU's latest e-mail system for faculty, students and administration. Mark Willis, VCU's chief information officer for the technology office who led the open forum, told the students Lotus Notes replaced the old Mail 1 and 2 system because it was outdated.
March 24 A male and female were arrested for three counts of damaging private property at Gilmer and Broad streets. March 25 A male was arrested for assault and drunk in public at the Village Café. March 29 A male was arrested for disorderly conduct and attempted carjacking of a rescue truck at Belvidere and Grace streets.
Saddam appears in court for questioning BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein was cross-examined for the first time in his six-month-old trial on Wednesday, saying he approved death sentences against Shiites in the 1980s because he believed evidence had proven they were involved in an assassination attempt against him.
