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Ron Capps’ chance at winning at Thunder Valley almost went up into smoke and flames before his team rebounded and the California native continued his Funny Car dominance at Bristol Dragway.
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Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, one of the most successful drag racers in history, will be inducted into Bristol Dragway’s Legends of Thunder Valley, the track’s official hall of fame, during the running of the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
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Congress has a 14 percent approval rating. Nearly everyone agrees that Congress needs new leadership, yet Americans keep re-electing incumbents.
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Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer has announced the additions of Jacob Grandison and Max Johns, who will join the Blue Devils as graduate transfers for the 2022-23 season.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin joined Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and Virginia Tech President Tim Sands Monday to announce a public-private partnership uniting industry, government, and academia to drive talent development and increased labor force participation in Virginia.
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Fourth-ranked Virginia Tech outslugged Oklahoma, 14-8, in Game 2 of the Super Regional on Saturday.
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The U.S. House passed, in bipartisan fashion, technically speaking, the Protecting Our Kids Act, a package of gun violence prevention legislation.
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Lexi Rubio would have attended St. Mary’s University in San Antonio on a softball scholarship, majored in math, then graduated from law school.
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Landis F. McCoy has spent nearly his entire coaching career in the state of Florida, but now the coaching veteran is headed to Farmville as an assistant on the Longwood women’s basketball staff, head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery announced on Monday.
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America is awash with weapons, and the tragic consequences are before us every day. The world is also awash with weapons, as reported by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute in Sweden, the leading source for data on military spending and the arms trade.
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