Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! I don't want to make it seem like the start of the NFL season is ...

To restore order, Caesar looked to Egypt’s 365-day year, which as early as the third-century B.C. had established the utility of a leap-year system to correct the calendar every four years.

On the Class A boys side, Century and Bismarck are set up for a barnburner of a competition on finals day. On the girls side, ...

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Danny McBride’s underrated HBO comedy The Righteous Gemstones is coming to an end after four seasons, but Uncle Baby Billy — ...

The move into a new joint courthouse in downtown Charlottesville will require the city and Albemarle County to play musical chairs with their respective courts.

The Woodberry Forest and Blue Ridge track and field teams brought home state championships in their respective division at the VISAA state track and field championships at Sports Backers Stadium ...

"We had a good day and positioned ourselves within striking distance, and that's all you really want." MSU head coach Lyle ...

A Scottish hill race which was started for a bet in the 1970s has just celebrated its 50th event. About 450 people from across Scotland took part in this year's Dumyat Hill Race, which is organised by ...

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII adjusted the calendar to make the first day of spring March 21 and introduced a new system of leap days. Rather than inserting a leap day every fourth year, 97 leap days ...

Here's what to know. A leap year is a year with an extra day added to the calendar — also known as leap day — on the29th day of February. The purpose is to keep it aligned with the Earth's ...

According to History.com, the Romans used a 23-day ... year. Pope Gregory XIII commissioned a new calendar, called the Gregorian Calendar, which fixed Caesar's miscalculation by eliminating the ...