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We go beyond the headlines into the important stories that matter to us locally.
Join NewsRadio WINA’s Courteney Stuart weekdays for the news and newsmakers of the day.

Tuesday, July 16, 201907/16/2019

Drones To The Rescue | Charles Werner

PVCC, Piedmont Virginia Community College, has established a Public Safety Advisory Board to review drone curriculum and provide advice on…

Tuesday, July 16, 201907/16/2019

ACLU-VA Warns Law Enforcement About Warrantless License Plate Surveillance

ACLU-VA Legal Director, Eden Heilman, talks with Les Sinclair about the organization putting law enforcement agencies on notice about using…

Tuesday, July 16, 201907/16/2019

2019 Quad County Business Summit | Bryan Rothamel

Bryan Rothamel, Fluvanna Economic Development Coordinator, talks with Les Sinclair about the 2019 Quad County Business Summit. The 4th annual…

Tuesday, July 16, 201907/16/2019

Fake Images Are A Bigger Than You Think | Mona Kasra

Les Sinclair talks with Mona Kasra, Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design in the Department of Drama at the University…

Monday, July 15, 201907/15/2019

White Nationalist Gets Life + 419 Years | WINA’s Dori Zook

WINA’s Dori Zook joins Les Sinclair to recap the sentencing of an avowed white nationalist, James Alex Fields, to life…

Monday, July 15, 201907/15/2019

Madison County Fair Opens This Week | Scott Daniel

Scott Daniel, with Madison County Fair, joins Les Sinclair to discuss the attraction to the event and why you should…

Monday, July 15, 201907/15/2019

Safer New Cars, But Women More Likely to Be Injured

Jason Forman, Ph.D. Principal Scientist University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics joins WINA’s Les Sinclair to lay-out the findings…

Friday, July 12, 201907/12/2019

Top 5 Soundbites of the Week | Les Sinclair

WINA’s Les Sinclair with the Top 5 soundbites of the week ending July 12, 2019

Friday, July 12, 201907/12/2019

UVA Cancer Center Reaches Stem Cell Transplant Milestone

Les Sinclair speaks with  Dr. Karen Ballen, of UVA Cancer Center, about the 500th transplant milestone, and what this means…

Friday, July 12, 201907/12/2019

July 11-215 years ago | Rick Britton

In this segment, Les Sinclair talks with historian Rick Britton about THIS WEEK IN U.S. HISTORY: Two hundred and fifteen…

Latest Stories

17 hours ago in Sports, Trending

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups pleads not guilty in rigged poker games case

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he profited from rigged poker games involving several Mafia figures and at least one other ex-NBA player.

17 hours ago in National

One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies at age 111

Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111.

17 hours ago in National

Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

17 hours ago in Sports

Pistons tie their championship teams from years past with franchise-record 13th straight win

Just two years ago, the Detroit Pistons set an NBA record for the consecutive losses in a single NBA season with 28. Now, they seemingly can't lose.

17 hours ago in Sports

Shohei Ohtani announces he will play for Japan in next year’s World Baseball Classic

Shohei Ohtani plans to play for Japan in next year's World Baseball Classic, the two-way Los Angeles Dodgers star announced on social media Monday night.