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The No. 25 Virginia baseball team completed a doubleheader sweep of Duke with a 10-3 victory over the Blue Devils in the second game Saturday afternoon at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The Cavaliers’ offense came alive and outscored Duke 22-6 in the doubleheader as Virginia (26-14-1, 11-10 ACC) clinched its fourth ACC series win of…
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The Hillcats lose a slugfest 11-6 to six the Frederick Keys in game two of the series. The Keys were paced by Ronnie Welty’s five RBI performance. Evan Gattis added his league leading sixth home run and 20th RBI of the season. However, it wasn’t enough to overcome a hot hitting Frederick offense.
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Mayor Frank Lucente was on the defensive at a Thursday night candidates forum on the issue of the controversial $3.5 million land deal that his City Council agreed to with two former political supporters. “I think in the long run we made a good deal. If I was doing a business deal, I would do…
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Mitt Romney has gained four points on Barack Obama in the latest Public Policy Polling survey of voters, indicating movement among Republicans now that the former Massachusetts governor has all but sewn up the GOP presidential nomination. Romney now trails Obama by a 49 percent-46 percent margin after trailing 49 percent-42 percent a month ago….
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A day after allowing a franchise-record 19 runs, the Richmond Flying Squirrels (7-7) rode stellar pitching to a, 2-1, victory over the Reading Phillies (10-4) in the finale of a three-game series on Wednesday morning at The Diamond. After two scoreless innings, the Squirrels struck first in the third inning against Reading right-hander David Buchanan. …
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The Rutherford Institute is calling on the City of Waynesboro to accommodate local churches wishing to provide temporary shelters for the homeless during the winter months by allowing them to take refuge inside their existing church buildings. Institute attorneys are challenging the city’s current interpretation of its zoning ordinance which requires churches to apply for…
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The Reading Phillies (10-3) handed the Richmond Flying Squirrels (6-7) their roughest night in franchise history, winning going away 19-6 in front of 3,526 at The Diamond on Tuesday night. The 19 runs were the most ever allowed in a game by the Squirrels as were the 22 hits the R-Phils recorded. Reading also broke…
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Second in a series Tim Kaine had thought, like a lot of us did, that his political career was over. In January 2010, Kaine finished up his term as governor of Virginia, and looked out a landscape in Virginia politics that featured two Democrats, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, representing the Commonwealth in the United…
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And it’s not that hard for me to admit, actually. And no, I won’t be voting for Mitt Romney, or a third-party candidate, or sitting out the election altogether. But still, I wish I could vote for another candidate for president this November. My first choice would be Mark Warner, a close second Hillary Clinton,…
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Old Dominion took advantage of an error to break a tie with two unearned runs in the seventh inning and went on to defeat James Madison 6-5 in the final game of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Sunday afternoon at the Bud Metheny Complex. ODU improved to 13-24 overall and 4-11 in the…
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