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This combination photo shows, Katherine Johnson in the press room at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2017, left, and her book "Reaching For the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, left, and Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Katherine Johnson, NASA pioneer and inspiration for ‘Hidden Figures,’ dies at 101

February 26, 2020 at 9:12 a.m.

Katherine Johnson, the NASA Langley Research Center mathematician who went from "hidden" to hero in her late 90s, died Monday morning at the age of 101. In the early days...

Success still adds up for the Pixies

June 15, 2018 at 6:22 p.m.

Dave Lovering is fascinated by the mathematics of the Pixies. The highly influential alt rock band from Boston was formed in 1986 and broke up in 1993. They reunited in...

Pharrell, Missy Elliott collaborating on new album

June 15, 2018 at 8:23 p.m.

A couple of months ago, Missy Elliott tweeted a photo of herself in the studio with Pharrell Williams. Two Hampton Roads musical legends, with Pharrell flashing the "two up, two...

The end of an era: No more Saturday morning cartoons

August 12, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

An era ended this weekend, and I completely missed it. Gizmodo, in a fine story you can read by clicking here, noted this was the first weekend in who-knows-how-many generations...

Police: Chicago man decapitates self in Virginia

May 16, 2019 at 8:27 a.m.

YORKTOWN, VA. -- A Chicago man set a trailer on fire and decapitated himself after a domestic dispute in York County on Tuesday morning. The man's name has not been...

STORY: One dead, one missing after sailboat capsizes on James River

July 31, 2019 at 9:11 a.m.

One man is dead and another is missing after a boating accident on the James River early Friday that sent 10 people into the water. The boaters -- six men...

Home-school kids design their own class rings

August 22, 2021 at 1:33 p.m.

Katelyn and Marissa Macri of Hampton, Va., go to school together, but their class rings look completely different. That's because the sisters, who are home-schooled, designed their own rings. As...

NO TIME LIMIT ON MEMORIES

August 18, 2021 at 9:23 p.m.

Bobby Valentine will tell you that baseball is a game of numbers, even in Japan. It's 60 feet 6 inches from the mound to the plate, 90 feet from home...

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