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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine noted today that state agencies have reported more than 5,900 jobs created or saved from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds flowing through the State Treasury. To date, more than $5 billion in ARRA contracts, grants and loans have been awarded in Virginia, with more than half in the form of…
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A new scholarship endowed by Food City will help connect top graduates from western Virginia community colleges to the James Madison University College of Business. The Jack C. Smith Scholarship, announced in late September by the Jack and Judy Smith Family Foundation, provides $5,000 annual awards to rising juniors in the COB who hold an…
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It’s hard for Steve Shannon to understand being criticized for saying that as Virginia attorney general he would make it his priority to fight crime, but it’s out there. “My focus is always on keeping people safe, and I don’t view that as a weakness. I view it as a great strength,” said Shannon, the…
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Friday, Oct. 23 MR. BURTON: Good morning. Thank you for joining us on our trip to Massachusetts and Connecticut. I have a week ahead for you all. The President will spend this weekend in Washington, he has no scheduled public events. On Monday afternoon the President will travel to Jacksonville, Florida, to meet with U.S….
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Virginia State Police and University of Virginia Police continue to follow up on tips being called in with regard to the Oct. 17 disappearance of Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, a Virginia Tech student who went missing after getting separated from her friends at a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, but…
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Bob McDonnell clearly appears to be pulling away from Creigh Deeds at the top of the ticket in Virginia’s state races. At first glance, Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and GOP attorney-general candidate Ken Cuccinelli would seem to be on their way to victories on Nov. 3 as well. A poll conducted by Christopher Newport…
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Tuesday, Oct. 20 Frank Spaziani – Boston College Opening Statement: We started out the second half of the season, with game number seven, on the right foot. We are very happy to come away with a victory over a very good conference opponent. We did a great job from the coaches all the way down…
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This is just a wild guess on my part. But I believe that Ben Cline was an outstanding wrestler in college. How else can you explain that no one has ever been able to pin him down? I know I have not. Following Bates College, Virginia’s 24th District delegate earned a law degree from the…
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We’re going to have some Division I-quality basketball going on across the street from the AFP office this fall and this winter. “We’ll have 10, 11 guys from this team play D1,” said Ed Huckaby, the coach of the new postgrad basketball program at Fishburne Military School, which is getting its 2009-2010 season started on…
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Sally Thomas knew well the conventional wisdom about write-in campaigns – “which is that a write-in candidate can’t win.” But Thomas and a group of friends opposing the planned Route 29 Western Bypass decided that it was worth the fight. “A bunch of us decided that somebody had to step forward and try to run,”…
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