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For the second time in as many days and the third time in the last week, the Salem Sox experienced their worst loss of the season. After falling 8-0 to Winston-Salem on Monday and losing 13-4 to Potomac on Saturday, the scuffling Sox were trounced 16-3 by Myrtle Beach on Sunday evening at TicketReturn.Com Field
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Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed Executive Directive No. 4 establishing a workgroup to develop a plan for implementing a program to screen babies born in Virginia for a life-threatening condition called critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). In Virginia, almost 4 in 1,000 newborns are diagnosed each year with one of the defects causing CCHD
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George Allen took his “Virginia Voices” campaign to Chester on Tuesday to hear directly from a locally-owned manufacturing business, Progressive Engineering and Progressive Heat Treating. He was joined by Chesterfield County Board of Supervisor Dorothy Jaeckle and Chesterfield County GOP Chairman Don Williams to tour one of Chester’s innovative job creators
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The U.S. Supreme Court this morning handed down a mixed decision in Arizona v. United States, a case challenging that state’s SB 1070 law, which is based on the controversial Prince William County ordinance that was cast aside as unworkable in 2008. While throwing out provisions making it a state crime to be in the country illegally and to make it a state crime to seek work, the Court refused to say that the Arizona “show me your papers” law was invalid on its face, without additional facts and an interpretation of the law by the Arizona Courts
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Luray rallied from an early 5-0 deficit to send the game into extra innings, and then had to hold off an 11th-inning Waynesboro rally en route to a 9-8 win Saturday. Before a season-high crowd of 583, two of the hotter teams in summer baseball – Luray had come in having won nine of 10, and Waynesboro had won nine of its previous 11 – put on a show
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The Waynesboro Generals offense exploded for a second straight night, launching three home runs among their 20 base hits in a wild 13-9 win over Woodstock Thursday. Brandon Murray continued his torrid mid-week, going 3-for-4 with another home run, his league-leading fifth, and fourth in two nights
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A Richmond City Circuit Court move effectively reverses a controversial House of Delegates vote that blocked a highly regarded prosecutor from an appointment to a district-court bench position. The move to appoint Tracy Thorne-Begland is now drawing the ire of Republican leaders who had put up the roadblock weeks ago
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Four state police agencies will engage in “Operation Border to Border,” a coordinated initiative targeting approximately 400 miles of U.S. Route 15, a heavily-traveled thoroughfare for summer vacationers and for those attempting to avoid congested interstates serving all four states
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Democrats are fond of saying that working-class Southern white voters who vote Republican “vote against their interests” in so doing, before scratching their heads and grumbling about how good things could be if only. The disconnect to reality is obvious – unless you’re a Democrat
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RMH will host a free symposium, “Orthopedics 101,” from 6:30-8:30 p.m. June 18 at the JMU Festival Conference and Student Center. Physicians from RMH Orthopedics and Sports Medicine will offer their insights about the latest developments in orthopedics
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