
Warner, Kaine highlight Virginia priorities included in Senate bill
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine applauded Senate passage of bipartisan legislation to fund federal programs critical to Virginia.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine applauded Senate passage of bipartisan legislation to fund federal programs critical to Virginia.

The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services has awarded $675,000 of federal State Opioid Response grant funding to VCU to help expand substance use recovery programs at eight universities across the state.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced $1,440,000 in Industrial Revitalization Fund grants for the towns of Bedford and St. Paul, and the cities of Covington and Richmond.

Marsha Rappley, M.D., CEO of Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and senior vice president for health sciences at VCU, announced her plan to retire on Jan. 2, 2020.

The St. Anne’s-Belfield School Board of Trustees announced today the appointment of Dr. Autumn A. Graves as the next head of school, effective July 1, 2020.

Virginia gas prices have fallen 2.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.33/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 stations.

Virginia Tech faculty have long been engaged in frontline, boundary-breaking research to advance cancer treatments that help people — and animals.

Virginia has joined with 42 other attorneys general in a $116.9 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. to resolve allegations that they deceptively marketed and promoted their transvaginal surgical mesh devices.

The USDA Farm to School program began 15 years ago to connect school systems with local food producers, and it has continued to grow.

The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.
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