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The William and Mary men’s basketball team came up on the short end of an offensive battle, falling at UNC Wilmington, 91-81, on Saturday night at Trask Coliseum. The Tribe shot 70.8 percent from the floor in the opening 20 minutes, but the Seahawks hit on 60.8 percent for the game and used an early…
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On a night that saw him become VMI’s all-time leading three-point shooter, Austin Kenon paced the Keydets with 21 points, Michael Sparks added 21 of his own and VMI defeated the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs, 85-66, in Big South basketball action played Thursday night at Cameron Hall in Lexington, Va. After VMI appeared to seize control…
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced today that many of Virginia’s major crops produced lower yields in 2010. Corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton and hay yields were significantly lower than 2009. Corn for grain yields averaged 67 bushels per acre, down 64 bushels from the previous year’s yield. Production is estimated at 20.8…
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Much uncertainty swirls around the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Virginia up for re-election in 2012 – first and foremost whether incumbent Democrat Jim Webb will even be in the running for re-election. That uncertainty, and the changing political climate in the Commonwealth since Webb’s upset of George Allen in 2006 and Barack…
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The Augusta County Board of Supervisors will meet on Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona. The meeting is nominally the board’s reorganization meeting for 2011, with the focus being on the election of a new chair and vice chair for the year. There is one other item on the…
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Liberty squandered a 13-point halftime lead Tuesday evening at VCU, but later came back from a five-point second-half deficit to win at the Verizon Wireless Arena. The Lady Flames’ 59-57 victory marked their first road triumph of the season. Waynesboro High School graduate Devon Brown scored Liberty’s final four points, including a pair of free…
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Do you hear what I hear . . .? * “Feliz Navidad,” “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” “White Christmas,” “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” and umpteen different artists butchering “Oh Holy Night” on the 24/7 all-Christmas music radio stations over and over again; * No sooner settling into the comfy recliner…
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Another Sunday, another unfulfilling ending for the Washington Redskins, who lost 17-16 to Tampa Bay despite dominating for long stretches, then suffering the “North Dallas Forty” ending when the special-teams unit couldn’t execute what would have been the game-tying extra point with nine seconds to go. It’s easy to say that the ‘Skins have just…
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Another Sunday, another unfulfilling ending for the Washington Redskins, who lost 17-16 to Tampa Bay despite dominating for long stretches, then suffering the “North Dallas Forty” ending when the special-teams unit couldn’t execute what would have been the game-tying extra point with nine seconds to go. It’s easy to say that the ‘Skins have just…
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“Mom, Dad, all I want for Christmas is . . .” I didn’t need to finish the sentence. My parents knew what was coming next because they’d already heard it one too many times. And the exasperating answer is: a Remco transistor radio and broadcasting system. I don’t recall where I first saw this “electronic…
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