
Will Hairston play in the ACC Tournament semis?
P.J. Hairston suffered a nasty freak injury to his non-shooting left hand late in North Carolina’s 83-62 win over Florida State in the 2013 ACC Tournament quarterfinals Friday.

P.J. Hairston suffered a nasty freak injury to his non-shooting left hand late in North Carolina’s 83-62 win over Florida State in the 2013 ACC Tournament quarterfinals Friday.

Second-seeded JMU overcame a difficult shooting performance and picked up a 59-48 victory over #7 Towson in the quarterfinals of the CAA Women’s Basketball Championship, presented by Jani-King, on Friday evening at The Show Place Arena.

Angela M. Smith, associate professor of philosophy at Washington and Lee University, has been named the first Roger Mudd Professor of Ethics and the first director of the University’s new Roger Mudd Center for Ethics.

Staunton City Manage Stephen F. Owen announced today the selection of Steven L. Rosenberg as assistant city manager. Rosenberg replaces James M. Halasz, who left Staunton to accept the position of Halifax County administrator last July.

By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today held that Virginia’s “Crimes Against Nature” statute, which criminalizes all acts of oral and anal sex (including private acts between consenting married and unmarried adults), is unconstitutional.

Seniors A.J. Davis and Devon Moore both scored 20 points as third-seeded James Madison edged sixth-seeded William and Mary 72-67 in the quarterfinals of the 2013 Colonial Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championship, presented by Jani-King, at the Richmond Coliseum.

Rob Pannell found Steve Mock on the crease with 13 seconds left to lift the No. 3 Cornell Big Red (5-0) over the No. 8 UVa. Cavaliers (5-2) on Saturday evening inside Klöckner Stadium, 12-11. Cornell scored five goals in the fourth quarter to outlast the Cavaliers.

After 27 years the General Assembly finally made some progress towards meeting Virginia’s transportation needs. That is, if you are willing to call the oddest collection of taxes and revenue transfers ever attempted since 1619 “progress.” I call it the biggest shell game to ever come out of Richmond. Or Williamsburg.

Today, Dancing Star Farm, a permaculture farm in Augusta County, announced that it will be accepting CSA membership to participate in their third annual Community Supported Agriculture Program.

Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency this morning authorizing state agencies to assist local governments in responding to the snow storm currently impacting the Commonwealth.
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