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You've got to capitalize when you have opportunities," Cave Spring baseball coach David Dunstan tells his team. This time at least, the Knights must have been paying attention.
The long-running attempt to fill empty storefronts and draw people to Franklin County's largest downtown may soon have some new draws: fiddles, banjos and a growing arts community. Rocky Mount officials have purchased an empty former hardware store on Franklin Street with plans to convert it into a music hall worthy of being an attraction on the cultural-tourism-themed Crooked Road.
It doesn't take long to spot the different energies at work in the contest for the 12th District seat in Virginia's House of Delegates. Long held by retired Blacksburg veterinarian Jim Shuler, the district's status as a Democratic stronghold was cast into doubt this year when its boundaries were redrawn to include more Republican-leaning voters. Shuler's decision last spring to step down after 18 years in office set off a struggle to bring the seat to the GOP side of the aisle.
If you're one of the thousands of demonstrators sleeping in parks, carrying signs and banging on drums to protest Wall Street's hammerlock on American politics, President Obama wants you to know he feels your pain. I understand the frustrations that are being expressed in those protests," Obama said in an interview with ABC News on Tuesday.
Virginia might want to hold on to a copy of the final statistics if it wants a lasting keepsake from Saturday's appearance at Kenan Stadium. A snapshot of the scoreboard won't give the Cavaliers any satisfaction.
The Wyoming volleyball team hosts two big conference matches after a historic win over Colorado State. By Scott Nulph
FORT BRANCH, Ind. - Had the start of the Class 3A softball regional at Gibson Southern been a movie, it would have been a disaster flick for visiting Vincennes Lincoln. But before the Titanic Titans could roll to an 11-1 victory behind stars Haley Taylor, a senior leadoff hitter, and freshman pitcher BreeAna Wilzbacher, the visitors would have to suffer through Alices in Blunderland.
I want next to report a critical dimension to the [George W. Bush]-Dick Cheney era of politics. They are going to leave an unenviable legacy. A new book by political pundit Kevin Phillips, titled "American Theocracy," has recently been released. Kevin is a lifelong Republican. He made his name in his first book, The Emerging Republican Majority," written back in the last century. Back then, Democrats on the left denounced him as a "phony." Now he has broken completely with what the Bush Republicans have wrought. He points up three major clear and present dangers to the country: first, "the lasting and deep impact of oil interests in distorting domestic and foreign policy." Second, "the ominous intrusion of radical Christianity into politics and government." Third, "the incredible levels...
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