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The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) will host a Virginia baseball memorabilia collection drive event on Saturday. Special guests Kathy and Richard Verlander, parents of All-Star pitcher Justin Verlander, will jump start the drive with a notable contribution to the VHS collection.
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Nine All-America caliber players highlight a football recruiting class composed of 28 student-athletes, as announced by Virginia Tech on Wednesday.
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Find out why professional wrestlers would survive at the poker table. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American entertainment firm that is privately controlled, publicly traded and chiefly deals with professional wrestling. The company also earns revenue from direct product sales, product licenses, music, and film. The wrestlers (known as “Superstars”) have entertained fans around…
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Four members of the Virginia baseball team have been named to Baseball America’s 2014 Preseason All-America Team, released today by the publication. Virginia boasts the most players on the All-America team of any school.
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Missing Waynesboro Police Department police reserve Kevin W. Quick’s silver 1999 Toyota 4Runner was located Monday morning (Feb. 3) at a residence in the 3600 block of Cedar Hill Road in Mineral, Va.
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Rodney Glasgow notched 26 points and seven assists, QJ Peterson scored 25 markers including seven three-pointers and the VMI Keydets shot 50 percent from the field en route to a dominating 107-93 win over the Presbyterian College Blue Hose in Big South action Friday.
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Sophomore Precious Hall (Tallahassee, Fla/Maclay School) dropped a career-high 25 points on Friday night to pace the JMU women’s basketball squad to a 92-59 victory over the College of Charleston at the JMU Convocation Center.
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Nearly halfway into the 2014 session two new senators were seated. Since both senators, Jennifer Wexton from Loudoun County and Lynwood Lewis from Accomack County, are Democrats, the balance of power shifted in the Senate of Virginia.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee’s National Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee, will lead a hearing on Monday, Feb. 3 on ways to better safeguard consumers’ financial data.
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At a press conference today, Democratic Senator Donald McEachin (D-Henrico,)Senator Henry L. Marsh (D-Richmond) and Delegate Rosalyn Dance (D-Petersburg) unveiled amendments to the Virginia budget that would fund grants for year-round schooling programs.
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