Tejaswi Shrestha ’18 waives right to preliminary trial in March 21 court...
Following his arrest Feb. 27, Tejaswi Shrestha ’18 appeared at the Williamsburg-James City County General District Courthouse March 21. He was initially arrested on one count of felony abduction and...
View ArticleBLM educates for change: Black Lives Matter conference addresses College’s...
According to the Washington Post’s Fatal Force database, 963 people were shot and killed by police in 2016. 233 individuals, or 24 percent, were African-American. So far in 2017, 25 percent of the 250...
View ArticleTransgender talk cosponsored by Baptist Church aims to inform members of...
A talk called “Listening to your transgender neighbor” was cosponsored by the Williamsburg Baptist Church, Equality Virginia and the Wesley Foundation at the College of William and Mary on Friday,...
View ArticleCWA burdened with expenses from last year: Combined costs of new software,...
The Christopher Wren Association, a lifelong learning program affiliated with the College of William and Mary, recently increased their membership prices due to budget constraints. The CWA provides...
View ArticleTribe Square evicts The Crust leaving ground floor empty
Today The Crust, established at Tribe Square in 2011, was evicted because of late rent payments. The Crust was the final restaurant to close of the previous four that operated in Tribe Square. It will...
View ArticleBroad Street proposes hotel, new retail spaces: Williamsburg Shopping Center...
The future of the Williamsburg Shopping Center is in the hands of the City of Williamsburg’s City Council, whose members will vote on a proposed design for a complete renovation Oct. 12. The shopping...
View ArticleCheesebro alerts campus following Thursday night’s IED detonation
As police continue to investigate an improvised explosive device that detonated near Merchants Square, College of William and Mary Police Department Chief Deb Cheesebro sent out a campus-wide email...
View ArticleGloucester County police search for College graduate student suspected of...
At 8:32 p.m., the College of William and Mary sent a campus-wide email about a graduate student, Mark Constantini, who is suspected of a shooting in Gloucester this morning and is believed to be armed....
View ArticlePolice make arrest, charge Stephen Powers with terrorism for Thursday’s...
Police arrested Stephen Powers, a 30-year-old resident of Gloucester County, Oct. 20 and charged him with setting off an improvised explosive device in the parking lot adjacent to Berret’s Seafood. The...
View ArticlePolice arrest grad student suspected in Gloucester shooting in D.C.
Mark Constantini, a graduate student at the College of William and Mary, was arrested Monday, Oct. 23 in connection with charges in a Gloucester County shooting earlier that day. Constantini was...
View ArticleState elections begin next week
Virginia state elections will be held next Tuesday, Nov. 7. The Flat Hat has you covered with all the information you need to know about the candidates running for governor, lieutenant governor,...
View ArticleOpening this spring, Mellow Mushroom stirs excitement for the future of...
The pizzeria Mellow Mushroom will be joining the South Henry Street Shops of downtown Williamsburg during the spring of 2018. A grant from the Economic Development Authority enabled the opening to be...
View ArticleRemaking Williamsburg’s shopping district: Broad Street Realty announces...
Broad Street Realty, a realty firm out of Bethesda, Maryland, is moving forward with its plans to redevelop the Williamsburg retail market with its impending purchase of the Monticello Shopping Center....
View ArticleWilliamsburg outlets welcomes two stores: Candy, books join offerings of...
The Williamsburg Premium Outlets announced the opening of two storefronts last week in preparation for the upcoming holiday season. The Outlets, which are located in James City County alongside...
View Article2,000 gather, march on DoG Street: Second Women’s March in Williamsburg...
Students and community members gathered near the courthouse on Duke of Gloucester Street in preparation for the Women’s March on Williamsburg Saturday Jan. 20. Partnered with Common Ground, a local...
View ArticleColonial Williamsburg art museums on track with renovation
The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg’s $41.7 million expansion and renovation continue to progress toward a completion date of early 2020, according to Ronald Hurst ’81, who serves as the vice...
View ArticleChick-fil-A set to open fall 2018: Fast-food restaurant fills vacancy left by...
When classes resume for the fall 2018 semester, Tribe Square, which has been vacant since Aug. 9, 2017, when The Crust was evicted, will have its first new resident: Chick-fil-A. “Students have been...
View ArticleAnti-abortion display vandalized Jan. 21
Last Sunday, on the eve of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, students from Advocates for Life set up a display on the Sunken Garden. Later that...
View ArticleWMPD charges student in connection with vandalism of anti-abortion display...
In the evening of Jan. 29, 2018, the William and Mary Police Department charged Daniel Sheaffer ’19, with one misdemeanor count of destruction of property. This charge comes from the removal of the...
View ArticleSuspect in felony hit and run turns herself in to WPD
Updated 2/08/18: Rebecca Bruhel, felony hit and run suspect, turned herself into the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail Feb. 8 at 5:30 p.m. The Williamsburg Police Department announced this morning that...
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