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It’s tough to find a better motivation technique than revenge. If anyone wants to question that statement, they should have been inside the Verizon Wireless Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center on Wednesday night. That’s where a tremendous defensive effort by the Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball resulted in a 71-54 throttling of Georgia…
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Virginia cornerback Ras-I Dowling has been selected to play in the 2011 Under Armour Senior Bowl. The 2011 game is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Saturday, January 29th in Mobile’s Ladd-Peebles Stadium. NFL Network will televise the game and all practices live. Dowling joins UVa teammate Danny Aiken in the annual senior game. Dowling entered…
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Backing a recently released final report on the 2010 BP oil spill, a local wildlife expert said it is likely that the oil company responsible for the 208 million-gallon spill into the Gulf of Mexico will likely get away with paying for little or none of the damage, and that the federal government’s efforts to…
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LOSER: Duke ain’t all that good Continuing in the mode of saying it like it is. The loss to Florida State on the road is one thing. Winning on the road in the ACC is never easy, and FSU has a solid ballclub this year. Having to rally to beat a depleted Virginia team at…
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The Wildlife Center of Virginia, an internationally acclaimed teaching and research hospital for wildlife and conservation medicine located in Waynesboro, admitted a total of 2,303 animals for treatment during 2010 – injured, ailing, and orphaned wildlife from all across Virginia. During 2010, the Center treated: 1037 mammals, including 299 Eastern Cottontail Rabbits; 223 Eastern Gray…
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli today announced his support for new legislation which clarifies Virginia’s gambling laws. Questions about the law arose in 2010 when a number of Internet gambling businesses started to appear around the Commonwealth. Companion bills, House Bill 1700 and Senate Bill 1195, patroned by Del. Clay Athey (R-Front Royal) and Sen….
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House Republican leaders are taking up the hot-button issue of illegal immigration at the outset of a Virginia General Assembly session taking place against the backdrop of fall elections. “House Republicans believe that playing by the rules and abiding by the law is important. Countless immigrants to this great nation have come here to embrace…
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Educational opportunity for all is a focal point for Gov. Bob McDonnell in his 2011 K-12 legislative agenda. “A child’s educational opportunities should be determined by their intellect and work ethic, not their zip code,” McDonnell said today in rolling out his Opportunity to Learn package, which pivots on a proposal to implement a pilot…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell is pushing a bipartisan higher-education initiative that he says will help Virginia colleges and universities issue an additional 100,000 degrees over the next 15 years. “Every student in Virginia deserves the opportunity to get a high-quality education at an affordable price. Virginia’s higher education institutions are among the best in the nation….
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The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum is pleased to partner with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia to present America, Woodrow Wilson, and World War I,”a five-meeting class beginning in February at the Presidential Library. The class will be taught by World War I scholar William Walker, who will argue…
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