Virginia Tech has taken a football commitment from Dewayne Alford, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound defensive end from Nansemond River High School in Suffolk, Va., who is described by his coach as "a diamond in the rough."

Alford spent his sophomore year at Portsmouth Christian, where he played running back before transferring to Nansemond River, where he had 61 tackles as a junior. He has 22 sacks in three

Re "GOP Senate race wide open" (Monitor front page, July 6): You are on target - It is wide open, despite the negative attack campaign waged by Democrat Paul Hodes.

There is a reason for Hodes's approach. Hodes has voted a strict party line regardless of the sentiment voiced by his constituency. If he had Replica watches stayed in New Hampshi

A 21-year-old woman who was found unconscious and floating face down in the water at the Elm Beach Recreation Area in Hopkinton yesterday was pulled to shore by swimmers who administered CPR, the police said.

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Hopkinton police Chief Stephen Pecora said emergency crews were called around 1 p.m. yesterday when bea

CONCORD, N.H., July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Gestamp Biomass, a division of Gestamp Renewables, and Clean Power Development, LLC today announced the signing of an agreement under which they will work together to develop, finance and operate biomass energy projects across the Northeast region of the United States.

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signs, plus colors, numbers and names. Teens and adults can learn about the deaf community, culture and history during "Laurent Clerc's Time Machine." "Introduction to ASL" is for those 11 and older and covers basic signs, finger spelling and numbers.

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All sessions are free, but registration is required.

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Although rafting companies on replica Air Jordan 1 the Ocoee River increasingly are concerned that TVA might have to close the river to rafting while repairing its rock slide-damaged flume, the agency says keeping the river open is a top priority -- right behind the No. 1 priority of safety.

Play Ball! program fires up baseball enthusiasm in China

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BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Three months after first pulling on a glove, Liu Guoliang has turned his back on China's national sport and fallen love with baseball.

THE CENTER FRONT Players go retro for their latest production, "The Good Old Days of Radio and Television."

On Saturday, Feb. 6, Sunday, Feb. 7, Saturday, Feb. 13, and Sunday, Feb. 14, the Thomas A. Baum Senior Center-based troupe will perform an episode of the radio comedy "The Bickersons."

The original program starred Don Ameche and Frances Langford as husband-a

COME the first sunny Sunday in ages, Mrs Eats was demanding a day out at the seaside.

So we took advantage of the bright morning to get a lungful of sea air.

A trip to Tynemouth in North Tyneside was in order and a stomp along the beach.

Whenever we take a trip out on the Sabbath, the question of food will always arise.

Worshipers are celebrating 200 years of having a church in a Somerset village.

Methodist groups first met in two houses in Kingsbury Episcopi, between Martock and Somerton, after a visit by the founder of the movement, John Wesley, in 1778.

By 1810 residents raised enough money to build a place of worship in Church Street.

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