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The ACLU of Virginia on Thursday praised Gov. Bob McDonnell for his remarks during last night’s State of the Commonwealth address in which he showed support for legislation that would automatically restore civil rights for nonviolent offenders.
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Stan Okoye had 20 points and 10 rebounds to notch his fourth double-double of the year, and the VMI Keydets broke the game open with a 9-0 run early in the second half as they went on to defeat the Liberty Flames, 82-69, in Big South basketball action Wednesday night in Lexington, Va.
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Three Dukes put up double digit points to lead the James Madison men’s basketball team to a 78-50 victory over the UNCW Seahawks in a Colonial Athletic Association game Wednesday night at the JMU Convocation Center.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell delivers the 2013 State of the Commonwealth Address to the Virgnia General Assembly.
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With legislators and transportation leaders by his side, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced on Tuesday a plan that would provide more than $3.1 billion in transportation funding for the Commonwealth over the next five years, tying transportation funding to economic growth and replacing the state’s outdated gas tax revenue model with a 0.8 percent increase in the state’s sales tax dedicated to transportation.
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It’s that time again. Virginia General Assembly time. Remember that little election way back in November 2011, the one when all 140 seats of the General Assembly were up for grabs? Now it is time for the winners to take their annual winter trek down the James. As for those the voters have excused from such chilly trips to Richmond, they are free to go elsewhere this winter, preferably to a more hospitable spot where “the weather better suits their souls.”
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To move forward to North Dakota State’s back-to-back FCS national championships, you have to move backward with coach Craig Bohl. Bohl was an assistant coach during Nebraska’s big run in the mid-1990s, including two of the Cornhuskers’ national championship seasons. Bohl’s NDSU squad, having beaten Sam Houston State for the second straight season in the FCS title game this past Saturday, was a unanimous selection on Monday on all 142 ballots of The Sports Network FCS Top 25.
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Stan Okoye had a career-high 39 points, including 26 in the second half, to lead the Keydets to an 86-77 win over the Presbyterian College Blue Hose Saturday night in Clinton, S.C. The contest was the Big South opener for both programs.
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Redshirt junior Sherrod Wright scored a career-high 28 points, leading the George Mason men’s basketball team back from a halftime deficit in a 73-66 victory over William & Mary Saturday at Kaplan Arena. The win moves the Patriots to 1-1 in Colonial Athletic Association play and 8-6 overall, while the Tribe dropped to 7-6 (1-1 CAA).
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Prominent Tea Party types are issuing not-so-veiled threats to congressional Republicans who joined in the bipartisan vote that cut taxes for 99 percent of Americans, but also, distressingly to the Tea Party, raised taxes on wealthy taxpayers.
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