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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A federal judge has sentenced former Newport News high-school football star and Virginia Tech football star Michael Vick to 23 months in prison for his role in the operations a dogfighting operation in Surry County. Prosecutors had recommended a sentence on the low end of an 18- to 24-month time frame…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The new Senate GOP leadership team looks … different … than the one that was in place this time last year. Conservative Lynchburg Sen. Stephen Newman is the new caucus chair, replacing moderate Glen Allen Sen. Walter Stosch, who barely survived a party-nomination challenge from the right wing in June…
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The Best Seat in the House Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I didn’t know why it was so cold – all I knew was that I felt a noticeable chill in the air from my seat on media row at the John Paul Jones Arena Wednesday night. I say noticeable because my memory from the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Air travelers leaving the Shenandoah Valley for the Northeast now have to budget for as much as six or seven hours of time in the air and in the airport. Beginning Feb. 18, they can cut that time by half or more. Colgan Air and the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport…
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Column by Todd Wickersty ToddWickersty.com I am from Jacksonville. I am a Hokie. Please move the damn game to Charlotte, but don’t be fooled. The ACC Championship Game will still have problems. I was in Jacksonville the week leading up to the game, and left for home (C’ville) the day before the game. So, count…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It took a year to get from the first public announcement to the groundbreaking. The question now is, how long does it take to go from groundbreaking at the new SRI International Center for Advanced Drug Research in Rockingham County to the point where we start referring to the Valley…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Waynesboro government How much more can you screw an election up than they did here in the River City? Well, you could forget to advertise it in the local paper – whatever that is supposed to be worth in this day and age of newspaper readership….
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Virginia Tech football fans who think their team got jobbed out of a BCS title-game bid I know that Tech was ranked higher than LSU heading into the final weekend of the regular season. And I know that they beat a higher-ranked team on that weekend….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Basketball coaches are assumed to prefer layups and short and medium-range jumpers to shots from behind the three-point arc that offer high reward in terms of the amount of points that can be scored per basket but at considerable risk to one’s offensive efficiency. And if you’re looking at Dave…
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Column by David Cox “Support our troops!” If we learned anything from Vietnam, it’s that, regardless of what one thinks of a war, one can, should, and must support the men and women who fight it. And, let me add, their families. Those men and women, and their families, are going to need a lot…
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