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Senior guard Tarik Hislop (Silver Spring, Md./Paint Branch) scored a career-high 32 points to lead the James Madison women’s basketball team (2-2) to an 89-86 overtime win over Wisconsin-Green Bay (2-1) in the Cancun Challenge at Moon Palace Resort.
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Fourth-ranked Old Dominion is in the 20-team FCS playoff field, while #17 James Madison was left out of the playoffs after dropping its final two games.
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Start your Christmas season off right by supporting the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank at this 16th annual benefit concert with three musical groups with guest performers, candlelight and luminaries at historic Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church on Rt. 11 in Fort Defiance, midway between Harrisonburg and Staunton. Through donations, the Food Bank serves 120,000 people each month (16% more than last year) through 250 partner agencies. All proceeds from the concert go to the Food Bank.
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Small businesses with big entrepreneurial plans sometimes can’t reach their goals due to limited creative manpower. That’s where a special service-learning project at Bridgewater College hopes to make a difference.
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Smart Beginnings Shenandoah Valley, a local school-readiness initiative that works to improve the quality of early childhood care and learning in the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro, as well as in Augusta, Page, Rockingham and Shenandoah counties, has received a grant of $75,000 from the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF), a public-private partnership headquartered in Richmond, Va.
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RMH Grief and Loss Services will host its annual Remembrance Service from 2-3:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 at Kyger Funeral Home in Harrisonburg.
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Democrat Tim Kaine surged to victory over Republican George Allen in one of the most-watched U.S. Senate races in the 2012 cycle.
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Republican Bob Goodlatte won an 11th term to represent the Sixth District in Congress on Tuesday, taking 65.6 percent of the vote to dispatch Democrat Andy Schmookler.
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A Baltimore man who supplied synthetic drugs to drug dealers in Central Virginia, pleaded guilty this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Harrisonburg to related drug charges.
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The 14-hour flight from Washington, D.C., to Beijing was the first time Josh Martin had ever flown. It was also the first time he’d been out of the country, and pretty much the first time he had ever really traveled at all, except for the away games that occasionally took him out of state during his four years as an infielder for the baseball team at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU).
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