The AFP Blog – Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

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– Unemployment in Waynesboro at 7.9 percent, 8:05 p.m. – Moran releases Green Virginia plan, 12:50 p.m. – ACLU says bills would violate religious freedoms, 12:50 p.m. – President Obama on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act bill signing, 10:37 a.m. – More feel good about direction of country, 9:08 a.m. – State issues…

Knockouts raise the bar in TNA

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Taylor Wilde went from being out of a job to being the face of women’s wrestling in a year’s time. Not bad for a hockey gal from Canada. “Completely surreal. It really was the pinnacle of everything I’ve done up to this point,” said Wilde of her three-month reign as the TNA Women’s Champion last…

Giveaway | TNA Live! tickets

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Register to win a pair of tickets daily from Augusta Free Press to the TNA Live! show at the John Paul Jones Arena on Feb. 6.  Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash will try to beat “Respect” into Frontline members Samoa Joe and AJ Styles when TNA wrestling debuts in Charlottesville. The superstars of Total Nonstop…

Today’s Agenda

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We’re catching up with ourselves – last night, we sat down with Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination candidate Jon Bowerbank, and today we’re giving you a chance to get to know him across the multimedia platform. Also today we share with you an interview with Shenandoah Moon author Duane Hahn, and tonight, we’re in Charlottesville for…

Ogletree going pro

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A curious move, to say the least – that’s UVa. wide receiver Kevin Ogletree announcing that he will forego his final year of college eligibility to enter the NFL draft. Ogletree, who graduated with a degree in sociology in December, had one year of eligibility remaining after redshirting in 2007 with a knee injury suffered…