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By Michael Hardy MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE Gov. Mark R. Warner yesterday proposed an $824 million transportation plan to promote rail and transit, accelerate public-private road-building and pay off debt on completed highway projects. Warner also wants to restore public confidence in the state’s troubled road program by stopping politicians’ periodic raids on the special…
Joseph Ward IV of Forestville, Md., added his second career National Amateur Bowlers (NABI) title to his list of bowling accomplishments when he won the Baltimore-Washington Region NABI Tournament conducted at AMF Bowie (Md.) Lanes, Nov. 23-24. It took a handicap series score of 621 or higher in the semifinals for the top five bowlers…
There is a saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. If this statement is true, President George W. Bush is leading the United States into a disaster of unprecedented proportions. The disaster will occur in Iraq, or more specifically in the sprawling capital city of Baghdad. Let me…
Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul B. Ebert and assistant commonwealth’s attorneys Richard A. Conway and James A. Willett received the Trial Advocacy Award from the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation (AGACL) last week. “It’s a real honor. … We’re very pleased to have received it,” said Ebert, who added Conway and Willett richly deserved the…
Lance Armstrong’s winning of the Tour de France is a story about the good, the bad and the ugly. The good is Armstrong winning his fifth consecutive Tour de France. Simply to compete in cycling’s signature event after cheating death and surviving cancer is an astonishing accomplishment. Since recovering from cancer, Armstrong has won the…
By KIPP HANLEY [email protected] FORK UNION — With just a couple of events remaining in Friday’s Northwest Region Indoor Track and Field meet, Forest Park coach Dave Davis shook his head and said “too many mistakes.” Davis turned out to be the one mistaken. Thanks to a gaffe by the Gar-Field girls’ 1,600-meter relay team…