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The Virginia men’s basketball team concluded the first stop of its European trip with a 82-73 loss to the Netherlands B Team on Thursday at the Topsportcentrum in the Amsterdam suburb of Almere
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James Madison men’s basketball will open its 2012-13 season at UCLA in the Legends Classic while also traveling for two games in Las Vegas and playing a stretch of five straight home games over three weeks to highlight the non-conference portion of the schedule announced by head coach Matt Brady on Wednesday
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The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Virginia filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that when individuals “like” a Facebook page they are engaging in a First Amendment-protected activity
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Virginia’s reputation as a destination full of local flavor has a new experience to tout with the first-ever August Virginia Craft Beer Month. The month’s theme, Love on Tap, is a nod to the state’s famous Virginia is for Lovers slogan and local craft beer on tap at more than 40 breweries and hundreds of restaurants across Virginia. The month-long celebration culminates with the first-ever Virginia Craft Brew Festival August 25 at Devils Backbone Brewery in Nelson County
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Florida State, Clemson and North Carolina led all Atlantic Coast Conference schools each with four players selected to the 2012 Preseason All-ACC Football team in voting conducted by the media at the annual ACC Football Kickoff, which was held July 22-23 at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro
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Bill Bolling’s strength as a potential gubernatorial candidate lies in his crossover appeal. Telling a newspaper that supporters of President Barack Obama should “check themselves into a mental hospital” probably isn’t the best approach to maintaining that reputation
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Politicians speaking at outdoor events on a pretty day invariably and jokingly take credit for the weather. But no one has stepped up to take credit for the weather lately. Records are being broken; new highs are being set
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Twenty-two years ago this month, the people of Liberia suffered the devastating effects of of civil war. The country’s economic, political, and social systems were decimated. The United Nations estimates that 250,000 people were killed and one million displaced. Children suffered the most; tens of thousands were abandoned or orphaned. Most were powerless against exploitation…
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The University of Virginia won .646 percent of its intercollegiate athletic contests in 2011-12 to win the 34th annual Virginia Sports Information Director’s Association Division I All-Sport championship. This is the Cavaliers 14th overall title, fifth straight and seventh in the last nine years
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) on Friday joined colleagues in approving a compromise two-year transportation package that includes more than $2 billion in federal transportation support for highway and transit projects in Virginia
