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JMU baseball head coach Spanky McFarland announced today the addition of four new student-athletes to the program after each signed a national letter of intent during the NCAA fall signing period. The new student-athletes include three from Virginia. The group features two left-handed pitchers and two infielders.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine offered comment following the announcement by the State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance approving renewal of existing healthcare plans in the individual and small business markets, allowing policyholders to continue existing coverage through the end of 2014.
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VDOT will open Route 727 (Airport Road) in Rockingham County on Friday. Contractors from Fairfield-Echols LLC of Fishersville have substantially completed the project just west of Route 11 at Mount Crawford. The work included construction of a new bridge over the North River and realigning part of the road to eliminate two sharp curves.
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By a narrow 52-48 vote, the Senate on Thursday changed decades-old rules allowing for filibusters of judicial nominees, endorsing the so-called “nuclear option” that could change American politics forever after. Senate Republicans have blocked 21 judicial appointments by President Obama using the filibuster.
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The Virginia Board of Education today unanimously approved an A-F grading system that will assign letter grades to schools based on the percentages of students demonstrating proficiency, academic growth and college and career readiness. Initial letter grades will be announced at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.
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There exists an excellent chance that your current hearing aid is equipped with Bluetooth technology, particularly if you purchased it recently. Bluetooth is most often associated with hands-free cell phone use, however it is also commonly seen in home phones, computers, mp3 players and TVs.
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The Waynesboro City Council met on Nov. 13 and approved VPAS’ request to be exempted from Personal Property taxes.
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There is no program or service for which public dollars can be invested that will have a greater return than those invested in young children. People who work in early childhood and day care programs have known intuitively and anecdotally for a long time that children in their programs were much more likely to be successful by a number of different measures than were children who did not have access to their programs.
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Bath County sheriff’s deputies responded to a non-emergency call for assistance to State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ home on Monday, the day before Deeds was stabbed in an altercation with his son, Gus Deeds, 24, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the attack.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine introduced the Entrance Fee Suspension Act of 2013 today to encourage tourism at national parks and wildlife refuges and bolster local economies that were harmed by the 16-day government shutdown. The bill will assist businesses that lost revenue or were forced to close temporarily during the government shutdown because of national park closures.
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