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Jim Webb is taking a different route to rolling out his presidential campaign. With so many candidates jumping into the race via the campaign rally with dozens of supporters waving flags and placards, and earning wall-to-wall TV coverage for the trouble of getting all that together, Webb took the road less-traveled.
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Virginia Tech engineers, leading an international team of researchers with members from Florida Atlantic University, Lehigh University, and Cambridge University, say a turbine blade inspired by the downy covering of owl feathers may offer a way to reduce noise from engines or wind farms.
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The Harrisburg Senators (38-41) outlasted the Richmond Flying Squirrels (39-37), 6-5, in 13 innings on Wednesday night at Metro Bank Park. The Squirrels had essentially run out of pitching after using seven hurlers when the game ultimately ended.
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JMU Director of Athletics Jeff Bourne announced on Tuesday the appointment of Marlin Ikenberry as head coach of the James Madison baseball program, naming Ikenberry the sixth skipper in program history.
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The University of Virginia won 67 percent of its intercollegiate athletic contests in 2014-15 to win the 37th annual Virginia Sports Information Director’s Association Division I All-Sport championship.
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The Richmond Flying Squirrels (39-35) snapped a 29-inning scoreless drought to score twice in the seventh inning and stun the New Britain Rock Cats (41-35), 2-1, on Monday night at New Britain Stadium.
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Qore Systems LLC will invest $12.8 million to relocate from Arizona and establish its first Virginia operation in Highlands Business Park, owned and operated by Smyth County and Washington County.
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Secretary of Health and Human Resources William A. Hazel, Jr., M.D. announced the appointment of the Certificate of Public Need (COPN) Work Group.
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Winston-Salem used a five-run second inning to jump on top of the Hillcats early and held off a late comeback to take the second game of the series, 6-4.Mitch Brown recorded a season-high six strikeouts, but earned the loss after allowing six runs on four hits at Calvin Falwell Field Friday night.
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Over the past 20 years, the American government has spent millions of dollars sending representatives to United Nations climate change conferences. While the public are advised to walk, bicycle, and take the bus more to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, hundreds of civil servants have enjoyed tax payer funded flights to exotic locations across the globe to take part in U.N. negotiations to ‘save the climate.’
