
JMU recovers, blitzes Charlotte, 34-7
JMU got 176 yards from R.E. Lee standout Dae’Quan Scott, and the Dukes overcame five turnovers to top Charlotte, 34-7, on Saturday in Harrisonburg.

JMU got 176 yards from R.E. Lee standout Dae’Quan Scott, and the Dukes overcame five turnovers to top Charlotte, 34-7, on Saturday in Harrisonburg.

The UVa. women’s soccer team, playing its first game as the nation’s top-ranked team in 23 years, rallied for a 2-1 victory at Boston College in its road opener Thursday.

The No. 7 Virginia women’s soccer team kicked off the 2013 season with a 4-2 victory over in-state rival VCU in front of 1,768 fans Friday night at Klöckner Stadium.

Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today that nearly $1 million in matching grant funds will be awarded to 54 local tourism initiatives as part of Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Marketing Leverage Grant program.

Gov. Bob McDonnell has announced the state wide leadership team for “Virginia Adopts: Campaign for 1,000,” an initiative to match 1,000 children currently in foster care with adoptive families.

The Virginia State Police and Virginia Department of Corrections are searching for an inmate who escaped from custody while on a work-release assignment at about 10 a.m. Wednesday morning (June 19, 2013) in Weyers Cave. The inmate was assigned to a VDOC Work Release crew that was landscaping the grounds of the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport in Weyers Cave.

Virginia advanced to the next weekend’s NCAA Super Regionals with an 11-3 win over Elon on Sunday (June 2) in the 2013 NCAA Charlottesville Regional championship game before a crowd of 3,792 at Davenport Field.

Kenny Towns (So., Burke, Va.) hit a three-run walkoff home run with one out in the 12th inning to lift the fifth-ranked Virginia baseball team to a 7-4 victory over No. 7 Florida State Saturday in the 2013 ACC Baseball Championship at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (D-IL 8) hosted a discussion with nearly 80 veterans, business leaders and support organizations today at American Legion Post 24 in Alexandria on Kaine’s first bill, the Troop Talent Act, and next steps for the bipartisan legislation

The No. 7 Virginia baseball team scored four runs in the 11th inning and then held off a furious North Carolina rally in the bottom of the inning to claim a wild 8-7 victory over the second-ranked Tar Heels Saturday afternoon in front of a sellout crowd of 4,100 at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill. Virginia (45-9, 22-8 ACC) won the series, two games to one, and captured eight of its 10 ACC series this year.
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