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Many industry analysts have been predicting that gas prices could move higher in the short term, but the overall dynamic favors lower prices due to demand destruction, according to a report released on Wednesday by AAA.
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UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the media in advance of the Cavs’ game this weekend with N.C. State.
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If Joelle Hackney had had her way when she was 18, she would have started college 2,400 miles from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. But by the summer after her 2001 graduation from Stuart’s Draft High School in Augusta County, Va., Humboldt’s steep tuition and other logistical considerations forced her to put that dream on hold.
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James Rogers put the VMI Keydets up 7-3 with an 80-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter, but the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs scored 35 unanswered points to close out the game and win, 38-7, in Big South football action Saturday in Boiling Springs, N.C.
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Redshirt-junior running back Dae’Quan Scott went over the 100-yard rushing mark for the 11th time in his career to lead No. 9/10 James Madison to a 28-21 win against Georgia State. The Dukes moved to 6-2 and 4-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association, while the Panthers are 1-8 and 1-5 against league foes.
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After last year’s pre-Halloween trick from Mother Nature (a rare October snow storm affecting most of the Northeast which followed a hurricane and earthquake in the Commonwealth), one would think our area would be due for a treat this year. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has another trick up her sleeve this year by the name of Hurricane Sandy.
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Sandy will be moving away from the Bahamas this afternoon, allowing conditions to improve in that area. As it moves northward, squally weather will spread to the eastern Carolinas late tonight Saturday, with gusts near 50 mph, according to AccuWeather.com.
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Even though the start of the Richmond Raiders’ fourth season is five months away, the team continues to work hard to assemble a squad that can improve on 2012’s PIFL runner-up finish. Fifty-seven hopeful players looking to be part of the 2013 roster participated in Saturday’s open tryout at the Richmond Coliseum, and a number of them at all positions made an impression on Raider head coach James Fuller.
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Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother, wasn’t just a white woman from Kansas who fell in love with a Kenyan student, nor just an anthropologist who became an American president’s mother.
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Eighty-eight percent of the students who entered the ninth grade in the fall of 2008 earned a diploma within four years and of those, more than 55 percent earned an Advanced Studies Diploma, the Virginia Department of Education reported this week.
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