Herring: Obenshain too ‘extreme’
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Democratic candidate for attorney general Mark Herring outlined his campaign platform at the Metro Richmond Women’s Bar Association Forum on Wednesday.
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Year Passes Quickly as Quilters Stitch at Staunton Senior Center
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The past year has moved by quickly as the Community Quilters has been meeting every second and fourth Monday at Staunton Senior Center.
The United Nations needs to take immediate action at Camp Ashraf
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The Iranian opposition exiles residing in Camp Ashraf in the Diyala Province North of Baghdad were forcibly relocated to Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport in the course of 2012.
Virginia on-time graduation rate tops 89 percent
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Nearly nine out of ten Virginia students who entered the ninth grade in the fall of 2009 earned a diploma within four years, and 55.8 percent of the commonwealth’s 2013 high school graduates earned an Advanced Studies Diploma. The statewide dropout rate fell to 5.9 percent for the class of 2013, compared with 6.5 percent for the class of 2012.
Virginia WIC offices open during shutdown
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State Health Commissioner Cynthia C. Romero, MD, FAAFP, assured Virginians today that all offices for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) across the state are open and providing services during the partial shutdown of the federal government.
The shutdown and the Virginia governor’s race
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The two major-party candidates for governor of Virginia – Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli – took to the PRwaves early Tuesday to blame each other’s political allies for the federal government shutdown.
McAuliffe ad accuses Cuccinelli, GOP of playing games with budget
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Ken Cuccinelli’s Tea Party allies in Congress are about to shut down the government to drive their extreme ideological agenda, putting Virginia’s economy and our servicemen and women’s ability to protect our nation at risk.
Moms breastfeed longer if they share a bed with baby, study finds
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Mothers who bedshare – sleep in the same bed with their infants – tend to breastfeed longer, new research suggests.
McAuliffe discusses importance of averting government shutdown
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Today Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe visited Morphix Technologies in Virginia Beach to discuss the importance of averting a government shutdown for Virginia’s communities and economy.
Earth Talk: Sugar vs. artificial sweeteners
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The production of sugar has indeed taken a huge environmental toll. “Sugar has arguably had as great an impact on the environment as any other agricultural commodity,” reports the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), citing biodiversity loss as a result of the “wholesale conversion of habitat on tropical islands and on coastal areas” to grow sugar.
