
Gov. Terry McAuliffe signs caboose budget bill
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe released the following statement today after signing House Bill 5001, the Caboose Budget Bill, which funds state government through the remainder of this fiscal year:

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe released the following statement today after signing House Bill 5001, the Caboose Budget Bill, which funds state government through the remainder of this fiscal year:

UVa. senior shooting guard Joe Harris (Chelan, Wash.) has been selected to participate in the 2014 State Farm College 3-Point Championship, announced Tuesday (April 1) by Intersport.

Virginia Tech scored seven runs in the second inning and defeated JMU 11-5 in a non-conference baseball game that was shortened to six innings when a power outage knocked out all of the English Field lights on Tuesday evening.

The VMI Keydets scored five runs in the fourth inning and went on to defeat the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs, 6-2, in the finale of a three-game Big South series Sunday in Boiling Springs, N.C.

March gas prices are going out just as they in roared – like a lion. The national average price at the pump rose to $3.54 per gallon Friday, a penny above week ago prices, and 11 cents more expensive than one month ago.

Second baseman Dillon Bass went 4-for-5 and delivered the go-ahead and insurance RBIs in the seventh and ninth innings to lift UNCW to a 6-4 victory over JMU on Saturday.

Senior second baseman Conner Brown’s (Richmond, Va./Godwin) one-out, bases-loaded single in the ninth lifted JMU to a 6-5 victory over UNCW after six unanswered runs in the opening game of the first Colonial Athletic Association baseball series of the season on Friday night at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.

Taking in a basketball game at Madison Square Garden has always been on my bucket list, but I didn’t want to go unless it meant something. As a UVa. alum, and the author of a book on the history of UVa. basketball, ideally my bucket list trip would involve seeing the guys in orange and blue in some way.

JMU senior guard Kirby Burkhoder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) was named the Richmond Times-Dispatch State Player of the Year on Wednesday, March 26, to highlight six honors collected by the Dukes from the state capital’s paper.

Virginia voters say 57-32 percent that they are optimistic about the next four years with their new governor, Terry McAuliffe, and give him a cautious 44-29 percent approval rating, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
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