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Local News from Rocktown Now
James Madison Baseball loses at Radford, 4-2
Radford pushed three runs across in the fourth inning as James Madison baseball fell, 4-2, on Tuesday afternoon at Sherman Carter Memorial Stadium.
No. 14 Bridgewater Baseball rolls to an 18-1 victory over Mary Baldwin
Bridgewater baseball broke out to a dominant offensive surge to best Mary Baldwin, 18-1, at home Tuesday.
JMU Softball comes up short at home against Liberty, 9-8
A five-run top of the sixth inning for Liberty, including back-to-back-to-back home runs, pushed the Flames past James Madison softball, 9-8, on Tuesday evening at Veterans Memorial Park.
JMU Women’s Basketball defeats Troy, 69-52, to win Sun Belt Tournament Championship
Peyton McDaniel and Ashanti Barnes combined for 47 points and each recorded double-doubles, as James Madison led wire-to-wire to capture the 2026 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Championship crown with a 69-52 victory against Troy on Monday afternoon at the Pensacola Bay Center.
JMU Women’s Basketball defeats No. 1 seed Georgia Southern, 81-53, in SBC Semifinals
Fourth-seeded James Madison dominated the glass, winning the rebounding battle 45-16, and held top-seeded Georgia Southern to 36.7% shooting (18-of-49) from the field for an 81-53 victory on Sunday afternoon in the Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Championship semifinals, advancing to the title game for the fourth consecutive season.
Entertainment
1 day ago in Entertainment
‘Dancing with the Stars’ pro Mark Ballas leaps back to Broadway in ‘Chicago’
Mark Ballas is returning to Broadway in "Chicago" and the "Dancing with the Stars" pro will be reuniting with an old friend. Ballas, playing slippery lawyer Billy Flynn starting April 6, will share the stage with his Roxie, Whitney Leavitt, the "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star who was his dancing partner on "Dancing with the Stars" last year.
2 days ago in Entertainment
Multiple gunshots fired near Rihanna’s LA home and a woman is taken into custody
Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna 's gated home, according to authorities and news reports on Monday.
2 days ago in Entertainment
Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ bounds to No. 1 as Warner Bros.’ ‘The Bride!’ is on life support
Disney and Pixar's environmental adventure "Hoppers" topped the North American box office this weekend with $46 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
2 days ago in Entertainment, Music
‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ’60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84
"Country" Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday. He was 84.