
Reading Phillies coast past Richmond, 7-1
Right-hander Aaron Nola worked six scoreless innings as the Reading Fightin Phils breezed past the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 7-1, at FirstEnergy Stadium on Friday night.

Right-hander Aaron Nola worked six scoreless innings as the Reading Fightin Phils breezed past the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 7-1, at FirstEnergy Stadium on Friday night.

April 22, 2015 is the 45th annual celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970, when 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies.

Rural folk from four Northern California counties came in mid-April to a magical juncture where the life-giving Russian River empties into the majestic Pacific Ocean. Though the small, unincorporated village of Jenner is a popular recreational destination, pleasure was not the intention.

It’s time for Virginia’s congressional delegation to take a stand and put a stop to the fast track and the TPP. Working families cannot afford another bad trade deal.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, released the following statement Wednesday.

The UVA baseball team scored a 3-2 win over William and Mary Wednesday evening at Davenport Field. Kenny Towns (Sr., Burke, Va.) hit the tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh inning as UVa (22-14) won its ninth consecutive game against the Tribe (15-19).

“It’s bad enough to be creating more profit incentive for war,” I told former head of Blackwater Erik Prince, “but you recycle part of the profits as bribes for more war in the form of so-called campaign contributions.”

The fourth annual Tom Tom Founders Festival has added over a dozen entrepreneurs and investors to the lineup of speakers at its Founders Summit, to include founders of Reddit, Gizmodo, 1776, New Richmond Ventures, the Container Store, and others.

A pair of fellowships will help University of Virginia student Ashley Blackwell fight hunger and discrimination this summer.

Virginians considering adding English ivy, golden bamboo or Japanese barberry to their yards might want to reconsider. Those plants and 87 others are on the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s new list of non-native invasive plants at dcr.virginia.gov.
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