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Breaking news post: Virginia Tech breaks record in win over Delaware State | Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG — The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team improved to 5-0 with a win over Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference member Delaware State at Cassell Coliseum on Wednesday night. The Hokies sank 21 3-pointers, breaking the Tech single-game record of 18 set last December in a rout of Central Connecticut State. Tech was 21 of 37 from …
Breaking News: Virginia Western is closed today due to police activity in the area
ROANOKE CITY , VA (WFXR) – Virginia Western Community College is closed today because of the evolving situation in the Grandin area of the city. Residents living within half of a mile radius of the 2100 block of Grandin Road Southwest are ask to shelter in place until further notice. This is a developing story, …
Breaking news post: Virginia Tech wins at Clemson | Virginia Tech
CLEMSON, S.C. — The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team opened the Mike Young era Tuesday with a 67-60 win at Clemson. It was Young’s 300th career win. Young made his Tech debut in the state where he had spent the past 30 years. He was the head coach at Wofford the past 17 seasons after …
Girl with dreadlocks cut off: Amari Allen lied about sixth grade classmates cutting off her dreadlocks at Virginia school
A 12-year-old black girl from Virginia has recanted an accusation that her white sixth grade classmates pinned her down and cut off her dreadlocks, her family said in a statement Monday. Stephen Danish, the head of Immanuel Christian School, also confirmed the allegations were false. Following an investigation by the Fairfax County Police Department, Danish …
WV MetroNews West Virginia Health Right program aims to keep kids out of foster care
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — “A safety net” is what’s being offered to new and expecting mothers dealing with substance use disorders through the expanding HOPE program based at West Virginia Health Right, the free clinic located in Kanawha County. HOPE started as an idea Dr. Angie Settle, Health Right’s chief executive officer, had years ago to …
Virginia showcases new Israeli technology for transforming waste and hopes economic investment follows | Virginia Politics
The Richmond region will become the national showcase for an innovative technology that an Israeli company says will transform household waste — everything, including kitchen scraps — into “the greenest thermoplastic material on the planet.” But the initial foray by UBQ Materials into the U.S. market has much higher stakes for Virginia than the 2,000 …
Virginia Beach Health Department issues swimming advisories for portions of city beaches
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The Virginia Beach Health Department issued swimming and wading advisories Wednesday for Chesapeake Bay Beach from Starfish Road east to Wake Forrest Street and in Sandbridge from Bass Street south to Chubb Lane. Recreational waters are monitored for bacteria using indicator organisms such as enterococcus, the indicator of choice in estuarine …
Virginia’s top mental health official, Dr. S. Hughes Melton, dead at 52 following car crash | Virginia
Virginia’s top mental health official, Dr. S. Hughes Melton, 52, died Friday following a three-car wreck in Augusta County on Wednesday. Melton’s death was confirmed by Gov. Ralph Northam, who named Melton commissioner of the state Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services last year, “a role he filled ably and with enthusiasm,” Northam said. …
Gov. Northam’s veto of three health insurance bills limits choices and increases costs
(Minerva Studio/iStock) Amir Bajoghli is president of the Medical Society of Northern Virginia. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) vetoed three health insurance bills that would have made it possible for small-business owners and independent contractors to band together and purchase group health insurance plans at competitive rates. These group health insurance plans sponsored by associations, …