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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones.
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The reason I’m not a lawyer today: I couldn’t get the song “My Name is Mud” by Primus out of my head.
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Societal issues are driving an increase in death rates among Virginia’s white population, according to a new report from the VCU Center on Society and Health. Stress-related conditions—including unintentional drug overdoses, suicides, alcoholic liver disease and alcohol poisonings—are killing white Virginians ages 25-54 at increasing rates.
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Governor Ralph Northam today unveiled the budget that he will be proposing to the Virginia General Assembly as they prepare to return to Richmond on April 11 to finish their work on the Commonwealth’s biennial spending plan.
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Virginia head women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle announced today (March 20) she is retiring from coaching due to a family matter. Boyle has led the Virginia program for the past seven seasons, compiling a 129-98 record. During 16 seasons as a head coach at Richmond, California and UVA, she compiled a career record of 333-191.
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The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality held the final public hearing on Virginia’s carbon reduction plan today. At the hearing, participants called for the strongest possible standard to cut Virginia’s carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants.
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Average retail gasoline prices in Virginia have risen 2.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.37/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 gas outlets in Virginia.
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The Civil War and emancipation brought change to life in Augusta County and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, rural counties similar but for one thing – slavery. One of American’s most noted historians, Edward Ayers, has taken a close look at those two counties across the Civil War era and emancipation.
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones.
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Six Virginia distilleries will exhibit at the Whisky Live trade show in London March 23 – 24 at The Honourable Artillery Company. The six distilleries – Belmont Farm Distillery,Catoctin Creek Distilling, Copper Fox Distillery, Franklin County Distilleries, KO Distilling and Reservoir Distillery – will offer samples of their products in the “Virginia is for Spirits Lovers” themed booth.
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