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No. 9 Virginia has received a bid to the 2011 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship as the No. 7 seed and will host the Bucknell Bison in the first round on Sunday (May 15) at 3 p.m., inside Klöckner Stadium. The game will be televised on ESPNU. This marks the second season (1971 and 2011) where…
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The Virginia women’s lacrosse team earned an at-large bid to the 2011 NCAA Tournament Sunday evening and will travel to third-seeded North Carolina for a first round game. The Cavaliers (9-8) will be unseeded and will face the Tar Heels (13-5) for the third time this year. Game day and time will be determined later….
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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced that former Blue Devil Jeff Capel joins the staff as an assistant coach and Nate James is named special assistant. Capel returns to Duke after spending the previous nine years as the head coach at Virginia Commonwealth (2002-06) and Oklahoma (2006-11), while James has been an assistant coach at…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell sent a letter on Thursday to President Barak Obama and leaders in the Congress calling upon them to repeal provisions in the federal healthcare stimulus program that require states to maintain Medicaid eligibility levels at previous rates. The Maintenance of Eligibility provisions restrict Virginia and other states from reducing the number of…
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As part of the Interstate 81 In-Place Pavement Recycling Project, there will be frequent southbound single lane traffic from May 6-12. The I-81 In-Place Pavement Recycling Project is located in the I-81 southbound lanes, south of Staunton near exit 217 at Route 654 in the Mint Spring area and exit 213 at Route 11 in…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks news on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a look at the big news of the week, perhaps of the year – the death of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden. Chris breaks down the impact of Bin Laden’s death on Al Qaeda infrastructure and on domestic and…
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A Craigsville teen is dead after a motor-vehicle accident on Route 42 in Augusta County. Virginia State Police were called to the scene of the single-vehicle crash shortly after 8 a.m. Friday. A 2006 Ford mustang was northbound on Route 42 when it encountered a white, older-model passenger vehicle. According to the driver of the…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell used a Thursday photo op to bring attention to his continued push for offshore drilling off the coast of Virginia. “America has an energy policy problem. Today, Virginia businesses and families are paying, on average, $3.88 per gallon for gasoline. That’s up $1.00 from a year ago. The Energy Information Administration estimates…
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The news of the death of Osama Bin Laden has “reinvigorated the great spirit of this great country,” said William H. Parrish, an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who served in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the George W. Bush administration. “But that day is now behind us, and now we have…
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The Atlantic Coast Conference has approved the medical hardship waiver request for Virginia men’s basketball player Mike Scott, providing Scott another year of eligibility in 2011-12. Scott, a 6-8 forward from Chesapeake, Va., underwent two operations on his left ankle during his fourth season with the Cavaliers in 2010-11 and missed 21 games. He played…
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