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State Del. Ben Cline, R-24th District, announced today that he had received confirmation of recent actions by Virginia Lottery employees in which luxury skybox suite seats reserved for winners of the Redskins Legacy game were misused by Lottery staff. Cline also announced that he would be asking for an independent audit of the Virginia Lottery…
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Dukes off to 6-1 start Sophomores Devon Moore (Columbus, Ohio/Northland) and Andrey Semenov (St. Petersburg, Russia/Blue Ridge School) led James Madison to a 35-19 run in the final 12 minutes to rally past Longwood 88-78 on Wednesday night in a packed and raucous Willett Hall. JMU won its sixth in a row to improve to…
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Senior led ACC is pass efficiency Virginia Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor, who has led the #12 Hokies to 10 straight wins and a berth in the ACC Championship Game following an 0-2 start, was voted the ACC Player of the Year for 2010. Taylor, a senior, was the choice of 27 of the 57 members…
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Virginia forward Will Sherrill suffered a fractured fibula in his right leg in the Cavaliers’ 87-79 victory at Minnesota on Monday (Nov. 29). It is uncertain how long the 6-9 senior will be out of action. Because of the nature of the injury, Sherrill will progress as his tolerance to activity indicates and will play…
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A bipartisan group of Virginia leaders will work to get the Obama administration to reverse its move to block drilling off the coast of Virginia until at least 2017. “As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we learned a number of lessons, most importantly that we need to proceed with caution and focus…
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Seven different Keydet players had at least 16 points, VMI notched the second-most points in school history and the Keydets routed the Central Penn College Knights 151-92 Monday night at Cameron Hall in Lexington, Va. The 151-point output was just five points shy of the largest scoring efforts in program history, a pair of 156-point…
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“The federal government,” says Bill Howell, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, “has long ago usurped the power reserved to the states and the people via our Constitution.” Here we go again. Looks like we’re about to refight the Civil War. Howell is in Washington today to talk up something called the Repeal…
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Editor Chris Graham talks sports on WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a look at this weekend’s ACC Championship Game. Virginia Tech is an early four-point favorite over Florida State. Chris breaks down the matchup and talks about the remarkable midseason turnaround engineered by Hokies coach Frank Beamer. A look at the…
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that allows restrictions on alcohol-related advertising in college publications in Virginia. However, arguments against the restrictions will continue in the lower courts. “We are disappointed that the Supreme Court decided not to hear this important First Amendment…
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Young Cavs rally big in second half A 29-7 second-half run erased a 10-point deficit and propelled Virginia to an 87-79 upset of #13 Minnesota Monday night in the opening game of the ACC-Big 10 Challenge. The hot-shooting ‘Hoos made 10 of their 13 three-point attempts on the game, but even with their marksmanship trailed…
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