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The resurgence of Cimex lectularius, the common Bed bug, is being reported across the Commonwealth of Virginia. VPMA-member pest control companies who received one or two bedbug calls a year are now reporting one to two each week. That’s 50 times more calls! Experts say the bed bug resurgence started with international travel with bugs…
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Some of our nation’s biggest corporations are planning a tax holiday and they want you to pick up the tab. Actually, you already pay for their routine tax avoidance through the use of tax havens in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and elsewhere. These accounting acrobatics cost the U.S. Treasury $100 billion a year. Now they…
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The Norfolk Tides paid homage to the Independence Weekend Sunday night at Harbor Park by lighting up the scoreboard in an 11-7 win over the Charlotte Knights in front of 8,853 fans. John Hester put the Tides ahead with a three-run homer in the second inning. Trailing 3-0 to start the frame, the Tides loaded…
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Andy Wilkins launched a towering, walk-off three-run home run in the bottom of the tenth inning, capping off a wild back-and-forth 12-10 victory for the Dash over the Red Sox on Saturday night at BB&T Ballpark. Salem took leads into the bottom of the ninth and tenth innings, but the Dash fought back with multiple…
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The Norfolk Tides nearly came all the way back from a 9-0 deficit Friday night at Harbor Park before falling to the Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees 9-7 in front of 7,496 fans. Trailing 9-2 in the seventh inning, the Tides put the first three batters on base with two singles and a walk that ran Scranton…
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Mr. Celery, Wilmington’s goofy vegetable mascot that storms out of the tunnel when the Blue Rocks score, received some extended rest on Wednesday night. Pete Ruiz was the reason why. Ruiz dealt seven brilliant scoreless innings, combining with newcomer Chris Martin on a five-hit shutout as Salem downed Wilmington 2-0. In becoming the first Red…
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An Eastern Mennonite University economics professor is a major player in an impassioned debate among malaria experts around the world about the best way to reduce the incidence of malaria. Chris D. Gingrich, who teaches in EMU’s business and economics department and MBA program, says everyone agrees that malaria is the largest health problem in…
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The Potomac Nationals and Kinston Indians decided to spend some extra time at Grainger Stadium on Monday night. Thunderstorms delayed the start of the ballgame by nearly 90 minutes, and the clubs needed 11 innings to decide a back-and-forth affair that saw the P-Nats surrender the lead in the ninth, score three in the 11th,…
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As he was announcing his second increase in troops for Afghanistan in December 2009, President Obama promised that by July 2011 those troops would begin coming home. As relayed by Bob Woodward’s book, Obama’s Wars, we know the president was skeptical about the United States’ war effort in Afghanistan. In spite of that skepticism, the…
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“You, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by. And so become yourself because the past is just a good bye. Teach your children well . . .” – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) VIRGINIA BEACH – What times we live in. I’m sitting at water’s edge of…
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