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Hillcats snap losing skid with 6-4 win over Winston-Salem

Chris Graham

The Hillcats snapped a three-game losing streak tonight with 6-4 win over the Winston Salem Dash. After getting shut out in two consecutive games, the Hillcats exploded with 14 hits tonight. Elmer Reyes had four hits, driving in one and scoring one. Meanwhile, Kyle Kubitza had two hits, and Levi Hyams had a double, both extending their hitting streaks to eight games.

The cost of Cuccinelli’s Star Scientific scandal: $53,000 and rising

Contributors

Virginians sitting in traffic or sending their kids to overcrowded schools can thank Ken Cuccinelli for allowing his personal taste for free Thanksgiving dinners and nutritional supplement courtesy of Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams to force taxpayers to foot the bill for at least $53,000 in legal fees that could have gone to solving actual…

Earth Talk: Ghost factories

Roddy Scheer

In April 2012, USA TODAY published a series entitled “Ghost Factories,” a report on an investigation into lead contaminated soil in hundreds of neighborhoods around the U.S. where lead factories once operated. The investigation addressed the lack of action taken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to test and clean up these sites despite having been warned in 2001 about the dangerous levels of lead contamination around the areas of these old facilities.