A Hopewell student is dead after a medical situation during football practice. The school district announced the student's death yesterday. Superintendent Melody Hackney tells 8News the student was a 15-year-old tenth-grader at Hopewell High School. The district says it's devastated, and it'll offer grief support for students today.
Virginians will be watching when the opening bell rings this morning after a disaster of a day on Wall Street Monday. Over $1.9 trillion dollars was wiped out during the initial Nasdaq plunge of over 1-thousand points. By the end of the day, the Nasdaq plummeted 576 points to 16-200. A global market selloff caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to have its worst day in almost two years due to fears that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession. Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor-Green posted on her X profile that large brokerage firms like Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, Ameritrade, and many others gave software errors to retail investors while allowing institution investors to make trades yesterday to prevent a market collapse.