I spent a few days over the past couple weeks covering a few area teams trying to make it to the state title game. Sadly for them, they fell short. Luckily for me, it means football season is another day closer. I just need to make it through baseball… On a technical note, the first [...]

Firefighters hose down a house after an airplane crashed into it in Louisa, VA on March 4, 2010, killing the pilot. One person was in the home but survived. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)

My weekend wishes were fulfilled with a ribbon-cutting assignment. I’m pretty sure when they cut the ribbon I did not look through the viewfinder. Such is the power of my protest of these sorts of assignments. Maybe I should shoot a personal project on the people that manufacture golden shovels and giant scissors. If nothing [...]

King George’s Rachael Webb (center) celebrates with Heather Jones (left) and Emily Pelto (right) following Webb’s finish in the 50-yard freestyle at the Battlefield District swim meet at the University of Mary Washington on February 13, 2010. (Mike Mor…

Shot this on the way back from an assignment at Montpelier in Orange County. It likely will not run in tomorrow’s paper due to the hole available was something like 1 column. If it did run, the skydiver would look like an ink smudge. Oh well – it was nice to sit around and chat [...]

I’m sitting in the basement of the General Assembly building in Richmond, killing time between the opening session this afternoon and tonight’s last State of the Commonwealth speech by Governor Kaine. Below, a nice slice of life amid a morning of procedural matters.

Emily Alejandra Hernandez was born at 1:05am to Silvia Hernandez Berrera and Emilio Vega at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va on Jan. 1, 2010. Emily is the first baby born in the Fredericksburg area in the new year.

A slideshow of my most memorable work from 2009

I went to FedEx Field yesterday expecting to see the Redskins get slapped around by the Broncos. I didn’t really care one way or the other being, you know, an objective journalist. Deep inside my heart of hearts though, being from PA, I root for the mighty Iggles and seeing somebody, anybody slapping the Redskins [...]

I covered the Northwest Region quarterfinals yesterday at Liberty High School. Because of all the bad weather, the games had been moved from Friday night to Saturday, which made working on a day off a bit more palatable. The first game, Colonial Forge vs Franklin County was one of the better games I have seen [...]