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Three teams of Augusta County students will display their ideas to help people prepare for, rebuild after or stay safe from natural disasters when they compete at the annual FIRST LEGO League robotics competition Saturday, Nov. 16, at JMU.
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We have a proud history of UE Local 123 — 50 years of rank and file democracy. We should all be proud of this union and the battles fought by all generations of UE 123 members that have secured reasonable wages, benefits and working conditions.
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Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. (Shentel), a PCS affiliate of Sprint, announced today the completion of its 4G LTE Network upgrade. The project, called Network Vision, mirrors Sprint’s plans for its national network and involved the replacement of all Shentel’s network equipment and antennas.
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Let’s face it. VCU is the heavyweight college basketball program in the state of Virginia, and has been for some time. There was a time, maybe about 15 years ago, that Virginia was the big boy in the Commonwealth, but that was before Pete Gillen, before Dave Leitao, long before Tony Bennett.
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The Waynesboro Year Round Competitive Swim Team, SMAC, (Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club) competed at the Hokie Invitational Swim Meet in Christiansburg Nov. 8-10. Teams from northern Virginia to North Carolina attended the meet.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine released the following statement after a minority in the Senate blocked the nomination of Nina Pillard to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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The week-long review of votes, locality by locality, is complete, and Democrat Mark Herring has a 106-vote lead in the Virginia attorney general race over Republican Mark Obenshain. The State Board of Elections will certify the vote on Monday, Nov. 25, at which point we can almost certainly expect to see the Obenshain campaign file for a recount.
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Treveon Graham hit a long three-pointer with 1.4 seconds left to complete a 10-1 VCU run that lifted the #14 Rams (2-0) to a 59-56 win over #25 Virginia Tuesday night. Virginia largely controlled pace and tempo against the run-and-gun Rams, who did heat up down the stretch and finished at 41.4 percent shooting from the field.
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Todd Wharton (So., Glen Allen, Va.) scored on a penalty kick in overtime to lift the No. 10 Virginia men’s soccer team to a 1-0 win over No. 9 Wake Forest Tuesday evening in the quarterfinals of the 2013 ACC Championship at Spry Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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How fast multiple sclerosis (MS) patients complete a 25-foot walk can provide insight into the disease’s impact on their lives, according to a new study led by a University of Virginia School of Medicine neurologist.
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