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Judge rules against former UVA Football player Jahmal Edrine in evidentiary matter
The legal team of former UVA Football player Jahmal Edrine is picking another fight with the victim in the rape and abduction case that, for now, is on ice.
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Buffalo Gap High School comes up short in $1M football field contest
Buffalo Gap High School fell short in the final round of voting in the T‑Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights competition, with the $1 million football field upgrade going to Menasha High School in Menasha, Wis.
UVA Basketball: #6 Virginia set to face Maryland in Friday night primetime matchup
Sixth-ranked Virginia gets another marquee-ish game this week, with a road trip to College Park to face former ACC rival Maryland, for a Friday night 8 p.m. ET tip.
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Waynesboro: Bus driver pushing School Board to address driver shortage
A school bus driver presented the Waynesboro School Board a detailed proposal for addressing the shortage of bus drivers this week.
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Inman Majors, former Waynesboro guy, releases new novel, ‘Arizona Showdown’
Mennonite kidnapping trial: Valerie Hayes, co-defendant, will have separate trials
Waynesboro: HERO attacks homelessness issue from a different angle
Judge finds Augusta County realtor Amy Argenbright guilty of two felonies
How much are we spending to add an extra lane to I-81 in Staunton?
Virginia
Pause to Protect coalition calls for moratorium on data center construction
A coalition of environmental groups is calling for a moratorium on new data center construction in Virginia until developers can show that they can meet specific environmental goals and standards on clean energy, water use and transparency.
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VDOT humble brags about being ready for winter snow: Good for them
Richmond couple gets jail time for bilking Medicaid out of a million bucks
Virginia DMV launches anti-distracted driver campaign that it’s calling ‘Open Your Eyes’
Pittsylvania County: Sheriff’s deputy plows into passenger vehicle on Route 29
VADOC kept close tabs on sex offenders on Halloween, to keep kids safe
Politics
Pete Hegseth, facing impeachment, insists he was just following orders
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, trying to head off an impeachment effort in the lame-duck U.S. House, insisted on Tuesday that “every one” of the military missions under his watch now under scrutiny “was a lawful operation ordered by the commander-in-chief,” which critics are saying comes across as the Nuremberg defense.
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Trump: ‘Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest’
PR firm sends us release touting MAGA’s DEI hire, Harmeet Dhillon
We need to convince Beth Macy to try again in the Sixth District in 2028
Augusta County voters: A resounding ‘no’ on the school construction tax
Waynesboro corrects its 2022 Jim Wood mistake, returns Sam Hostetter to City Council
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UVA Basketball: #6 Virginia set to face Maryland in Friday night primetime matchup
Sixth-ranked Virginia gets another marquee-ish game this week, with a road trip to College Park to face former ACC rival Maryland, for a Friday night 8 p.m. ET tip.
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UVA Basketball: #6 ‘Hoos take care of Bucknell, 95-61, on ACC After Dark
UVA Basketball: Odom able to get minutes for bench guys in win over Bucknell
UVA Basketball: Win in heavyweight matchup wasn’t one for the birds
UVA Basketball: Inside the numbers from #9 Virginia’s win over #12 Arkansas
UVA Basketball: Elijah Gertrude emerging as Virginia’s bench ‘Superman’
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UVA Football: Tony Elliott filibusters his way through a 14-minute answer to a question
We’re not long from the press conferences that really don’t offer anything of value anyway going the way of the weekly TV coaches shows – remember those relics of the ‘80s, with the likes of George Welsh sitting in a studio on a Sunday morning grumbling his way through highlights of yesterday’s game?
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UVA Football: First look at Cal, which is absolutely a must-win game
UVA Football: No change at QB, per Elliott, which, really, no surprise there
UVA Football: Schedule updates from the ACC for the final two home games
UVA Football: What is the issue with all the guys on the injury report each week?
What I’m hearing about what the UVA Football money people are thinking
Sports
‘Hall of Fame’ co-host Brad Gilmore on his new book, ‘Making the Towns’
The road to champagne dreams and caviar wishes isn’t paved overnight. For Brad Gilmore, it’s been 15 years of measured progress and constant redefinition, allowing his love for cinema and professional wrestling to guide his course.
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College Football Playoff expanding to 24: ACC Championship Game axed
Richmond basketball player Jack McCaffery diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma
VCU drops heartbreaker at Memphis on free throws in final seconds, 89-88
Broadway, Virginia Tech grad had a Rocky Mountain summer with the Rockies
Pro Wrestling Power Rankings: This week’s Top 10, post-‘Crown Jewel’
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The ‘free’ in Augusta Free Press isn’t entirely free: There’s a cost to doing business
A big issue facing #TeamAFP in the short term is, we’re stubbornly insistent that we need to keep the content free, so that what we do to keep people in power accountable is accessible to as many people as possible.
Inman Majors, former Waynesboro guy, releases new novel, ‘Arizona Showdown’
A writing buddy, Inman Majors, former resident of Waynesboro, now living across the continent out in Arizona, but still doing good things here in Virginia, is now his own publisher, in addition to being an author and philanthropist.
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VCU rebounds from heartbreaking loss at Memphis, easily dispatches NJIT, 87-49
VCU got 19 points from junior forward Torey Alston to get back into the win column on Wednesday, with an 87-49 defeat of NJIT at the Siegel Center.
West Virginia native Kenneth Lambert training for solo row across the Atlantic
OK, so, I think I’m tough because I’ve run, and finished, three marathons. Then a guy named Kenneth Lambert, a native of Dunmore, W.Va., about 90 miles west of us, wrote to me about how he’s going to be rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic next month, solo.
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