UVa. women stymie Norfolk State, 66-23
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The Virginia women’s basketball team advanced to the championship game of the Cavalier Classic presented by Holiday Inn University Area with a 66-23 victory over Norfolk State.
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UVa., W&M in top four in Kiplinger ‘best value’ ranking
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The University of Virginia improved to the number two spot in “best value in public colleges” in the annual Kiplinger ranking of the top 100 schools. Other Virginia schools ranked in the top 100 include the College of William and Mary (4), James Madison University (20), Virginia Tech (28), University of Mary Washington (53), George Mason University (56) and Christopher Newport University (87).
President Obama: The time for action is now
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Good afternoon, everybody. For the past couple of months, I’ve been working with leaders of both parties to try and forge an agreement that would grow our economy and shrink the deficit – a balanced plan that would cut spending in a responsible way but also ask the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more,…
ACC has 16 players named to NFL Pro Bowl
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Atlantic Coast Conference schools had 16 of their former players chosen for this year’s National Football League Pro Bowl Wednesday evening in the initial selections to the prestigious NFL all-star game.
Darius Ross: Raise Minimum Wage to Lift Our Economy in New Year
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As a longtime businessman, I see a deficit in America that has received far too little attention. That’s the wage deficit experienced by growing numbers of Americans, with serious consequences for our economy.
Chris Graham: ‘Meaningful contributions’ from the NRA
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The National Rifle Association pledged to offer “meaningful contributions” to make sure that school shootings like the one last week in Newtown, Conn., that took the lives of 26, including 20 first-graders, would never happen again. Those “contributions” took on a familiar form on Friday, with the gun-rights lobby attacking gun-control laws and unveiling a plan to placed armed guards in every school in America.
McDonnell sets moment of silence to commemorate Sandy Hook victims
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Two days after suggesting in a radio interview that he supports arming teachers as a way to prevent future school shootings, Gov. Bob McDonnell was back in political mourning mood on Thursday, announcing a statewide moment of silent to commemorate the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting exactly one week after the shootings occurred.
Compromise moving in direction of Kaine campaign proposal?
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President Obama has proposed allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire above $400,000 as part of negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff. U.S. Sen.-elect Tim Kaine had suggested during his campaign allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire on income above $500,000 per year, a practical compromise between the position of Senate Democrats and President Obama and the position of House Republicans.
McDonnell: Arm teachers
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Twenty first-graders were among the 26 massacred at a Connecticut elementary school last week. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell suggested today that the massacre wouldn’t have happened if a teacher or school administrator had been armed.
#20 Christopher Newport tops EMU, 66-46
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Just two days after dropping in 112 points in a win over Maryland Bible, Eastern Mennonite’s offense hit the other end of the spectrum in a 66-46 loss at Christopher Newport. The Captains, ranked No. 20 in the D3hoops.com national poll, held EMU to their lowest offensive output since an 88-33 loss to Hampden-Sydney on Feb. 3, 2003.
