Beamer announces additional staff changes

Chris Graham

Virginia Tech head football coach Frank Beamer announced more changes to his staff Wednesday, elevating Jim Cavanaugh to the administrative position of director of recruiting and high school relations. Beamer also announced that former Tech All-American and Tech Sports Hall of Fame member Cornell Brown would assume Cavanaugh’s spot on the coaching staff to work…

Duke D dominates Cavs

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An 11-0 first-half run gave Duke control, and the Blue Devils put the clamp down on Virginia in the second half en route to a 56-41 win in Charlottesville Wednesday. A packed house at the John Paul Jones Arena was abuzz after an early 8-0 UVa. run gave Virginia a 12-7 lead at the 13-minute…

Bowles' 40 leads JMU to victory

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Senior forward Denzel Bowles (Virginia Beach, Va./Kempsville) poured in a career-high 40 points to lead James Madison past Towson 72-61 in a Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball game on Tuesday night at the Towson Center. JMU improved to 19-9 overall and 9-7 in the CAA. With Drexel’s loss at UNC Wilmington, the Dukes climbed into…

State posts 12.6 percent revenue growth in January

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January revenue collections increased by 12.6 percent over the prior year – the 10th month in the last 11 in which state revenue collections exceeded the previous year’s amount, and the third month in a row in which year-over-year revenue growth was greater than 9 percent. “These economic indicators are showing a trend of progress…

Nursing professor at EMU honored for teaching excellence

Jim Bishop

A member of the Eastern Mennonite University nursing department faculty has been honored by the Virginia Student Nurses Association. Laura A. Yoder, an assistant professor of nursing, was awarded the “excellence in nursing instruction” award during the VSVA’s annual convention held Feb. 5 at Liberty University. The annual award, selected from nominations submitted by nursing…

EMU at #14 in D3 poll

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The Eastern Mennonite men’s basketball team has moved up two more spots in the D3hoops.com national poll to No. 14. The rankings were released Monday night and were not affected by the Runnin Royals’ 86-71 win over now-No. 7 Virginia Wesleyan. EMU is one of three ODAC teams in the top 14. After falling to…

‘Natural Wonders’ to be found at OASIS

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Life is full of little, ordinary bits of beauty which frequently go unnoticed and unappreciated. Using her cameras and editing software, photographer and artist Deb Booth of Waynesboro gets up-close and personal with blossoms and blooms, tweaking and crafting her images to bring out something hidden from first glance – oft-times completely changing the dominant…

The AFP on WREL: Crunch time

Chris Graham

AFP editor Chris Graham joins WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to talk Virginia sports. The focus this week is on Virginia Tech basketball – which finds itself back on the NCAA Tournament bubble in what seems to be an annual rite of pre-March Madness talk. Can the Hokies afford a slip-up between now and Selection…

The AFP on WREL: Crunch time

Chris Graham

AFP editor Chris Graham joins WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to talk Virginia sports. The focus this week is on Virginia Tech basketball – which finds itself back on the NCAA Tournament bubble in what seems to be an annual rite of pre-March Madness talk. Can the Hokies afford a slip-up between now and Selection…

System failure, human error to blame for state computer outage

Chris Graham

An external audit of events surrounding an August 2010 state computer disruption revealed the cause of the failure as a combination of the failure of a key data storage system and good old-fashioned human error. The audit, released today by the McDonnell administration and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee, was critical of Northrup…