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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So I’m talking with MMA athlete Dustin Honeycutt backstage about his match – which he lost by submission – and about the broken thumb that he suffered early on that pretty much ate away his chances of coming out on top.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The game plan for 24-year-old Adam Prickett going into his Mixed Martial Arts in the Valley IV fight with Eric Ohene-Bekoe had been to keep things at standup as much as possible. But the Verona man went back to his training at Valley Chute Box in Harrisonburg and decided to…
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Story by Jim Bishop Brenda C. Fairweather wanted to respond in some way to a hostage crisis in Russia in which more than 300 civilians eventually lost their lives. On Sept. 1, 2004, terrorists linked to the Chechen independence struggle took more than 1,200 people hostage in a school in the town of Beslan. Shootings…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A funny thing happened on the way to Kristi Toliver’s homecoming victory – and I’m not talking about the two ridiculously petty fouls that she picked up in the first two minutes that planted her on the bench beside Maryland coach Brenda Frese for almost the entirety of the first…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Divorce reform, restrictions on abortion and continued funding for abstinence-only sex education. The Family Foundation of Virginia and the Valley Family Forum have a healthy appetite – but whether they can fill their plate in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly remains to be seen given the changes in the composition…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Imagine not knowing where your next meal is coming from. For a growing number of families in the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia, this isn’t something that is too hard to conjure up in the mind. Hunger is a reality in our area – yes, even here, in the robust…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You hear his voice, and you assume that he has the life – getting to provide color commentary for a midmajor Division I college-basketball program and a perennial I-AA football power. I mean, seriously, you do color commentary in your living room. This guy sits courtside and at the 50-yard…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The new Senate GOP leadership team looks … different … than the one that was in place this time last year. Conservative Lynchburg Sen. Stephen Newman is the new caucus chair, replacing moderate Glen Allen Sen. Walter Stosch, who barely survived a party-nomination challenge from the right wing in June…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It took a year to get from the first public announcement to the groundbreaking. The question now is, how long does it take to go from groundbreaking at the new SRI International Center for Advanced Drug Research in Rockingham County to the point where we start referring to the Valley…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifty-four hundred people. In five counties. That’s a lot of people recovering from brain injuries in the Central Shenandoah Valley. “Our primary purpose is to help survivors of brain injury get back to their lives before they suffered their injury,” said Michelle Witt, the executive director of the Harrisonburg-based Crossroads…
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