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The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge presented awards of $10,000 to each of ten individuals during the 22nd annual Dawbarn Education Awards ceremony Wednesday evening.
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Attorney General Mark Herring announced today that Virginia will join a coalition of seventeen other states and seven major municipalities taking legal action to support the Clean Power Plan, a national pollution-reduction strategy that will combat the impact of climate change on Virginia’s economy, coastal communities, the military, agriculture and forestry industry, and the health of Virginians.
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Is Frank Beamer leaving Virginia Tech of his own accord? You don’t have to do a lot of reading of tea leaves to think not.
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with reporters on Monday. Beamer formally announced his retirement on Sunday, and this was his first press conference following that announcement.
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A bizarre result of a routine lab experiment has led researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine to an unexpected new way to trigger the production of red blood cells. This could represent a significant step forward in the battle againstanemia, benefitting people with diabetes, people with kidney disease or cancer, and older people for whom anemia can become a chronic problem.
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The complexity of the human immune response has been difficult to characterize on a “big picture” level, but researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have written the book on how it can be done.
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Students making their way from Hillside Residence Hall at EMU on Monday mornings have an extra blessing sent their way. Carissa Luginbill, a senior social work major, greets students passing through on their way to class and wishes them well in their activities for the day.
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Hildreth describes being pulled over for a broken headlight. He informs the officers he has a concealed carry permit, and is currently armed. He cooperates showing them his weapon, and his permit card, which is out of date (though the permit is still valid). Ultimately, the police behaved courteously and let him off with a warning.
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We’ve made it a practice here at Augusta Free Press in recent years to forego doing political endorsements, not because we don’t have an opinion on we think should win, because we do, but because we’re not sure of the value of endorsements in this day and age.
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ODU football coach Bobby Wilder talks with reporters on Monday. The Monarchs (3-5, 1-3 Conference USA) play Texas-San Antonio (1-7, 1-3 C-USA) on Saturday.
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