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A two-run home run over the right field wall in the top of the eighth inning put the Longwood Lancers ahead 10-5 and proved to be the deciding factor in the 11-9 loss by the JMU baseball squad in its home opener Wednesday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.
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The long-unsolved 1967 murders of two employees at the High’s Ice Cream shop in Staunton are featured in the series premiere of “Catch My Killer” on Investigation Discovery Sunday at 9 p.m.
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JMU held off a second-half Hofstra surge, and the visiting Dukes posted a 68-60 win in Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball action Sunday afternoon at the Mack Sports Complex.
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Pat Cook will be the featured speaker at this Monday’s “Conversations about Art” at the Beverley Street Gallery, February 18 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Cook will discuss how to develop a series and keep it interesting.
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Center fielder Jacob May delivered a go-ahead single in the fourth to put his team ahead and the Coastal Carolina bullpen tossed four scoreless innings in a 4-3 victory over JMU in the baseball season opener for both teams on Friday afternoon at Francis Marion University’s Sparrow Stadium.
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The Republican controlled House Elections Subcommittee defeated bills that would have allowed Virginia seniors to vote by no-excuse absentee ballot and prevented election officials from rejecting an absentee ballot due to minor technical errors.
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Senior guard Tarik Hislop (Silver Spring, Md./Paint Branch) scored 22 points, 18 of them in the second half, to lead JMU (16-8, 10-2) to a 68-56 win at Old Dominion (16-8, 7-5) in Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball Tuesday evening at the Constant Convocation Center.
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The war over toxic chemicals and human health is spilling over into places we live and work: our buildings. The American Chemical Council has launched an expensive and focused attack on the U.S. Green Building Council to protect the status quo of a small set of bad-actor manufacturers of toxic and obsolete chemicals. But innovative companies across the building industries and human health advocates are fighting back.
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The JMU women’s basketball team got closer to #20 Delaware than any other Colonial Athletic Association team this season, but the Dukes saw their winning streak end at eight games with a 71-64 loss to the Blue Hens Sunday afternoon at the JMU Convocation Center.
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Fear can be a powerful influence in our lives. A healthy fear of something that is harmful may keep us safe. Fear of the unknown can cause helpful caution or limit our perspective. Too often fear can be misused to manipulate the actions of others. In Richmond as elsewhere, fear is evident and at work in many aspects of the legislative process.
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