The Augusta Civic Center is the Richmond girls basketball team’s home away from home.
March 2012
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Auto Racing Notebook: Kenseth quietly ranks among all-time greats
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Maybe it’s his consistent approach on the track or his low-key demeanor off it. Whatever the reason, Matt Kenseth’s name usually isn’t the first to come up when people talk about current Sprint Cup Series drivers who might rank among the sport’s all-time greats. But with Kenseth’s Daytona 500 victory Monday, […]
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CLASS B BOYS BASKETBALL: Even out of town, fans still follow Tigers
The Gardiner Area High School boys basketball team is about to play in the state championship game for the first time, to the delight of many fans in the city.
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Prepare for major-brand ads in your Facebook
The messages will be mixed in with news feeds and your friends’ updates, but they’ll be limited.
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Murdoch’s son steps down from newspaper post
LONDON – James Murdoch, his credibility diminished and his future at the helm of his father’s media empire in doubt, stepped down Wednesday as executive chairman of News International, the troubled British newspaper subsidiary embroiled in a deepening phone hacking scandal. The move – which the company cast as allowing Rupert Murdoch’s younger son to […]
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Feature obituary: Tom Moulton, 54, devoted dad, owner of paving business
Tom Moulton, a well-respected businessman who owned one of Yarmouth’s most successful paving and construction companies, died on Monday after a fight with brain cancer.
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Greece’s unions protest cuts with rallies, work stoppages ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s largest unions held protests and a work stoppage Wednesday, as the crisis-hit country’s coalition government pressed ahead with wage cuts and other painful austerity measures. The stoppage disrupted services at tax offices and other public agencies, and a protest was held outside the […]
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Apple market capitalization soars beyond $500 billion
It’s only the sixth American corporation to reach that milestone, a week before it unveils the next iPad model.
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Judge blocks graphic cigarette warnings
RICHMOND, Va. – A judge on Wednesday blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing U.S. tobacco companies to put large graphic images on their cigarette packages later this year to show the dangers of smoking and encourage smokers to quit lighting up. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled that the federal […]
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Gas prices not a threat to growth
Analysts expect a strengthened U.S. economy can withstand the higher fuel costs, for now.