Kevin Brown’s recruitment was supposed to be settled last summer.

But for the Harrisburg star, fate intervened, and now the blue-chip offensive lineman has officially signed to play at a place that always made sense: his father’s alma mater of West Virginia.

Brown just wrapped up his senior season at Harrisburg, playing two ways to lead the Cougars to their fourth consecutive state semifinal, and now will head to Morgantown to lead a stellar WVU recruiting class.

“It’s surreal,” Brown said after he first announced his decision. “I still haven’t taken it all in.”

Maybe the dust has settled a little bit for the 6-foot-5, 270-pound lineman who ranks as the No. 122 player in the nation per 247.

And with his presence, the WVU recruiting class for 2026 has bolted all the way up to No. 31 in the nation, sitting ahead of schools like Mississippi State, Arizona, Pittsburgh and more.

Brown will be joining that group of Mountaineers in Morgantown, where he will wear the same uniform his father, Tim, wore from 1999 to 2004, playing for the same head football coach in Rich Rodriguez.

“I’m super excited to get on that uniform and be burning couches every Saturday with Rich Rod and my dad,” Brown said.

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The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the scotch and whisky were stored. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceiling tile collapsed and alcohol pooled on the floor.

The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he’s a raccoon.

On Saturday morning, an employee at the Ashland-area liquor store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade.

“I personally like raccoons,” said Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control. “They are funny little critters. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.”

Martin said she took the raccoon back to the animal shelter, though she had her fair share of giggles along the way.

“Another day in the life of an animal control officer, I guess,” she said.

Raccoons are common in Virginia, according to the state’s Department of Wildlife Resources. They are found in forests, parks and sometimes in cities — and apparently, at a liquor store.

The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter commended Martin for handling the break-in, and confirmed the raccoon had sobered up.

“After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer,” the agency said.

It’s not the first time this year that a raccoon was found in a place where it shouldn’t have been. In May, a raccoon was found with a glass methamphetamine pipe in its mouth and was sitting in the driver’s seat of a car in Ohio.

The vehicle was pulled over because its registered owner had an active warrant and a suspended driver’s license, the Springfield Township Police Department said.

RICHMOND, Va. — Another food and beverage venue fashioned from shipping containers is taking shape in Richmond, this time near the Sauer Center courtesy of a D.C. restaurant group.

The Virginia Transit Co., or Vitco as its founders John Groth, Arturo Zaloga and Matt Weaver refer to it, will be a bar, restaurant and event space constructed mostly out of dozen shipping containers on a vacant parcel at 1010 N. Meadow St.

Vitco is the second concept for Groth, Zaloga and Weaver, who in 2021 opened Metrobar, a similar concept in D.C. that’s anchored by a 75-foot-long former Washington Metro car that they repurposed into a restaurant and bar. For their Richmond venture, they’re incorporating a decommissioned streetcar. Click here to continue reading on Richmond BizSense.