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The Fishburne Military School postgraduate basketball team swept the weekend at the Kiski School (Pa.) National Prep Tourney. The Caissons defeated Propel Charter (Pa.) 108-23 on Friday, Rise Academy (N.C.) 67-45 on Saturday and the home team Kiski School 67-65 on Sunday.
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On Saturday, Dec. 7 from 11 a.m. until noon, the Augusta County Historical Society is sponsoring Staunton storyteller and folk musician Bill Wellington in a program on the second floor of the R.R. Smith Center for History & Art. Wellington is hoping that his program, “Poetic Justice,” will finally give this Revolutionary patriot his just due.
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The Virginia women’s basketball team (3-1) earned a 61-60 victory at Liberty (0-3) Lynchburg. After Liberty tied the game with 38.2 seconds remaining, Virginia senior guard Ataira Franklin drove baseline with the shot clock winding down, getting fouled in the process. After missing her first free throw, she made the second to give UVa. a one-point edge with 11.3 seconds remaining.
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A lot has changed since the last time I had coffee with Creigh Deeds at the Starbucks just off the interstate in Waynesboro in December 2008. At that point, Deeds was running a distant third in a three-way race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, a race that he would eventually win.
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Anthony Gill had 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting, Joe Harris had 16 on 7-of-8 shooting, and Virginia dominated the boards against a smaller Navy team en route to posting a 67-42 win Tuesday in Charlottesville. UVa. (3-1) went on a 13-0 run to open up a 30-12 lead at the 2:01 mark of the first half. Navy (2-3) didn’t get any closer than 14 the rest of the way.
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The VMI Keydets cut a 20-point deficit to six with just over a minute to play, but the Virginia Tech Hokies scored the final seven points of the game and hung on for a 105-92 victory in men’s basketball action Monday night at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Va.
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UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the media in advance of his team’s game at ACC Coastal Division rival Miami (7-3, 3-3 ACC) on Saturday. Virginia (2-8, 0-6 ACC) enters the game on a seven-game losing streak. The ‘Hoos lost their most recent game, on Nov. 9, 45-14 at North Carolina.
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I fell for the clickbait. “Is coffee bad for you, or is it saving your life?” The story, predictably, was about a study that says coffee is actually good for you, and another study that says the first study is bunk, because coffee is bad for you.
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A high-tech project to turn an ordinary smart phone into an artificial pancreas that could transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes has received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The money will fund a new network approach to artificial pancreas design using distributed computing between local and Cloud systems.
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I was a first-year in college on a trip back home with one of my new roommates’ families. His mom cooked dinner, and it was an eye-opening experience. As I told my mom afterward, famously, “Mom, it’s no fair. Rich people even have bigger chicken.”
