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The Virginia Department of Transportation will post 70-mph speed limits on 680 miles of interstates no later than Dec. 31, 2010, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday. While campaigning for governor, McDonnell proposed the speed limit increase to 70 mph in rural and less populated areas as a way to improve transportation in the Commonwealth. This…
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A federal judge heard arguments for the state and for the federal government in a case brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli challenging the constitutionality of the federal health-care reform bill passed and signed into law earlier this year. Judge Henry E. Hudson said in Monday’s hearing in Richmond that he will hand down…
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Pressed into action with Richmond’s top three quarterbacks missing the game because of injuries, true freshman Montel White threw a game-winning touchdown pass with nine seconds left as No. 20 Richmond beat No. 8 Massachusetts 11-10 on Saturday at McGuirk Stadium in Amherst, Mass. White drove the Spiders (3-3, 1-2) 60 yards in eight plays,…
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Pressed into action with Richmond’s top three quarterbacks missing the game because of injuries, true freshman Montel White threw a game-winning touchdown pass with nine seconds left as No. 20 Richmond beat No. 8 Massachusetts 11-10 on Saturday at McGuirk Stadium in Amherst, Mass. White drove the Spiders (3-3, 1-2) 60 yards in eight plays,…
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First play from scrimmage: North Carolina quarterback T.J. Yates finds Dwight Jones out in the left flat for what looked to be about a 10- to 12-yard gain. Then Jones breaks the tackle and streaks past the Virginia secondary for what turned into an 81-yard touchdown. First play of the game, and UNC is on…
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First play from scrimmage: North Carolina quarterback T.J. Yates finds Dwight Jones out in the left flat for what looked to be about a 10- to 12-yard gain. Then Jones breaks the tackle and streaks past the Virginia secondary for what turned into an 81-yard touchdown. First play of the game, and UNC is on…
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I’d never before had the victim of a violent crime ask me this question: “Can you tell me why this story hasn’t been in the news yet?” Heather Owens was the victim of a brutal Aug. 28 assault in the backyard of her Florence Avenue home. The case remains at this writing unsolved. I met…
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A Downtown Waynesboro business owner was brutally attacked outside her Florence Avenue home in the early-morning hours of Aug. 28, and her attacker remains at large as police investigators continue to work leads in the case. “What got me through this … I kept saying to myself, I have to stay alive for Dylan,” said…
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Truman H. Brunk, 79, a former campus pastor at Eastern Mennonite University died Friday, Oct. 8, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg. Brunk was born May 19, 1931 in Washington, D.C., the son of the late Truman and Ruth Smith Brunk. He grew up in the Denbigh community of Newport News, Va. Brunk joined the EMU…
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A nurse practitioner and a high school basketball coach were cited Saturday during Homecoming and family weekend at Eastern Mennonite University for their work in exemplifying the highest ideals of their alma mater. Dwight A. Gingerich, a 1981 EMU graduate from Kalona, Iowa, received the “alumnus of the year” award for 2010. The award is…
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