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On a recent weekday at 4:30 p.m. – exactly 150 minutes before the opening tip – veteran sports broadcaster Steve Buckhantz walked into the almost-empty Atlantic Union Bank Center on the campus of JMU in Harrisonburg.
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Skywatchers in Virginia are making plans to take in a potential aurora tonight that may be visible for much of the northern U.S.
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The fire at the Harrisonburg Walmart reported early Monday morning was caused by lithium-ion batteries that ignited inside combustible packaging within a heavy-duty wire framed storage unit.
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Unlike patents or copyrights, trade secrets derive their worth by remaining private or secret. It’s when they become publicly known that their value to the rightful owner can quickly sink to zero.
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Nelson County, just over the mountain from my base in Waynesboro, has a rather qualified new local Democratic Party chair.
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Legendary actor/producer/director Warren Beatty was born in Richmond and went to high school in Arlington at what was then Washington-Lee, where he played football before graduating in 1955.
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For the past five months, I’ve had the honor of speaking with thousands of neighbors around the Shenandoah Valley and the Alleghany Highlands.
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In April of 1970, I was deployed as a third-class petty officer on the USS Richard E. Byrd, DDG-23, “Sea Power from Pole to Pole.”
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SMU was thisclose to falling to 1-3 in ACC play, saved at the buzzer by a halfcourt shot from point guard Boopie Miller, a 92.5 percent free-throw shooter who had missed five charity tosses earlier in the night, before hitting the stunner to beat Virginia Tech.
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There’s got to be a way we can build a new coalition that doesn’t have to involve giving political power to outright racists, misogynists, religious bigots and know-nothings and their backers in the monied elites. So, the rest of us, the 80 percent of the country that has to wake up each morning to work…
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