
Tim Kaine comments on GOP move to block minimum wage vote
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine released the following statement after the Senate failed to advance legislation that would raise the minimum wage.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine released the following statement after the Senate failed to advance legislation that would raise the minimum wage.

Valley Program for Aging Services (VPAS), in partnership with the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and with support from the Walmart Foundation, has joined a nationwide effort to fight senior hunger by dramatically increasing participation by eligible seniors in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Derek Fisher (Jr., Rexmont, Pa.) hit a tiebreaking two-run double with two outs in the 10th inning to lift the No. 1-ranked UVa. baseball team to a 5-3 win at No. 4 Florida State Friday in the opener of a key three-game series at Dick Howser Stadium.

Governor Terry McAuliffe released a statement today following the General Assembly’s 2014 reconvened session, in which they considered his vetoes and amendments to legislation passed this year.

I recently received a poem, “The New Jim Crows,” from an unlikely source: North Carolina Public Defender Danny Spiegel. Spiegel’s poem is an outpouring of the heartache and frustrations of his occupation, of how he is forced to bear witness to the damages of mass incarceration.

Luis Diaz and Simon Mercedes combined to three-hit the Dash on Monday night, working efficiently and effectively as the Salem Eed Sox cruised to a 7-1 victory, wrapping up a 3-1 series win over Winston-Salem.

The Atlanta Braves have made a minor league coaching move. Effective immediately, Carlos Mendez has assumed the duties of hitting coach for the Lynchburg Hillcats. He takes over for John Moses, who has been named the hitting coach for the Braves’ Double-A affiliate, the Mississippi Braves.

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers studying a potentially deadly parasitic infection have discovered an unknown ways that human cells are killed, with the parasitic amoeba essentially nibbling cells to death as a piranha might attack its prey.

Reed Gragnani collected four hits, Luis Diaz dialed in for five dominant innings, and the Salem Red Sox kept up their winning ways with a 5-2 triumph over the Pelicans on Saturday night at TicketReturn.Com Field.
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Senior second baseman Conner Brown’s (Richmond, Va./Godwin) one-out, bases-loaded single in the ninth lifted JMU to a 6-5 victory over UNCW after six unanswered runs in the opening game of the first Colonial Athletic Association baseball series of the season on Friday night at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.