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Attorney General-elect Mark Herring today announced the appointment of two more senior officials in the Office of Attorney General. Herring will be sworn in as Virginia’s 48th Attorney General on Jan. 11. Stuart Raphael, currently a partner with the Litigation Team of Hunton & Williams LLP, will serve as Virginia’s Solicitor General.
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James Madison senior guard Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) was named the Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week Monday afternoon. It is the third time this season Burkholder has collected the honor and the fifth time a JMU player has been recognized.
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The Virginia women’s basketball team (7-6) won the team title at the Cavalier Classic Tournament Presented by Holiday Inn University Area, defeating Princeton (8-5) 69-57 Sunday afternoon (Dec. 29) at John Paul Jones Arena. It was the 10th-straight year that the Cavaliers have won the team title in their annual tournament.
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The Virginia women’s basketball team (6-6) defeated Coppin State (4-7) 70-45 Saturday afternoon (Dec. 28) in the Cavalier Classic Tournament Presented by Holiday Inn University Area.
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Attorney General-elect Mark Herring today announced Cynthia E. Hudson will serve as his Chief Deputy Attorney General. In this new role Hudson will oversee the day-to-day legal operations of the Attorney General’s office and work with Attorney General Herring to provide top-level professional legal services to the Commonwealth and all Virginians.
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The George Mason men’s basketball team took its first lead of the game with less than three minutes to play and never relinquished the advantage to top Saint Mary’s 65-63 on Christmas Day. The Patriots finished seventh in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic with the victory in the Stan Sheriff Center.
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A 6-0 second-half run pulled Norfolk State even, but Virginia responded with an extended 20-5 run to regain control and held off a couple of late Spartan charges en route to a 66-56 win Monday night in Charlottesville. UVa. (9-3) led by as many as 10 in the first half, but Norfolk State (8-5) was able to hang around.
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The Terry McAuliffe Inaugural Committee has announced additional parade participants for the inauguration of Terry McAuliffe as 72nd Governor of the Commonwealth.
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The George Mason men’s basketball team dropped a hard-fought 79-67 decision to No. 17 Iowa State to open the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic on Sunday in the Stan Sheriff Center. Patrick Holloway led the Patriots with a career-high 19 points.
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The season on the line, down 23-14 in the fourth quarter, Tony Romo comes up lame after completing a third-down pass to Miles Austin. (Insert joke about Tony Romo having been lame for years here.) The Dallas Cowboys quarterback could barely hand the ball off to DeMarco Murray on the next two plays.
