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A first-year student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has won two prestigious national awards that will support her work with malnourished children in the slums of Bangladesh.
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The Waynesboro Police Department has charged a local man after an he abducted, abused and sexually assaulted a family member Tuesday night. Ronald Issiah Burton, 30, is in custody and is accused of putting a 30-year-old Waynesboro woman through an eight hour ordeal of rape and assault at a residence in the 900 block of Shenandoah Avenue.
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Motorists will notice a new traffic pattern at the intersection of the John W. Warner Parkway and Route 631 (East Rio Road) in Albemarle County. On April 29, the Virginia Department of Transportation modified the pavement markings so the parkway’s northbound right-turn lane will now operate as a shared right-through lane.
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The UVA baseball team completes the regular season Thursday through Saturday with a three-game ACC series at North Carolina. Play begins at 7 p.m. Thursday at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill and continues at 6:30 p.m. Friday and noon Sunday.
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Daniel Pinero (So., Toronto, Ontario) hit a two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning to break a 6-6 tie and lift the UVA baseball team to an 8-6 win over Richmond Tuesday evening in the Cavaliers’ 2015 home finale at Davenport Field.
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More than 34 million Americans have hearing loss. That’s one out of every nine of us. That’s important for you to know if you are experiencing hearing loss. Basically, you need to know that you are not alone.
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The Virginia Environmental Endowment today announced awards of more than $240,000 to protect and improve the region’s natural resources and environment.
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To limit hospital readmissions among local seniors, the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) and Well Virginia – UVA Health System’s Accountable Care Organization (ACO) – are partnering to improve patients’ transition after being released from the hospital.
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Senator Bernie Sanders spoke Monday in Charlottesville, Va. He said all the right things about wealth and inequality and education, as usual. Yet he managed, as usual, to avoid a little item that takes up the majority of the budget that he and his colleagues decide on each year.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced the formation of the Governor’s Executive Committee on Energy Efficiency. The Executive Committee is comprised of public and private sector stakeholders that will develop strategies and recommendations to achieve the goal of a ten percent reduction in retail electricity consumption in the Commonwealth by 2020.
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