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Sandy Hook violence prevention commission meets for first time
A 16-member commission, appointed in Connecticut to examine last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school, kicked off its deliberations Thursday, even as the nation continued to wrestle with finding policies on how to deal with gun violence....
Tags: Blacksburg, Behavioral Conditions, Civil Rights, Adam Lanza, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Several area residents on Governor McDonnell's Task Force of School and Campus Safety
Nearly four dozen people -- including several locals -- have been named to a Virginia panel reviewing school policies and procedures. The panel will also review funding and resource challenges, to ensure the safety of students and educators. Gov. Bob...
Tags: Justice System, Behavioral Conditions, Students, Conservation, Stafford County
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Virginia Health Services president oversees new facility, expansion
Jeffrey L. Mendelsohn, president of Virginia Health Services, is currently overseeing several facility additions and expansions. Virginia Health Services, a locally owned operator of convalescent, rehabilitation and retirement centers, has broken ground...
Tags: Virginia Living Museum, George Washington University, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Relief and Aid Organizations, Arts
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OUR HEALTH: Seeking Balance
Shortly after the school year begins, four young men provide a perspective that no one could prepare them to share—a testimony in the making. All from different backgrounds, similar goals and a desire for something not attainable just anywhere...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Human Interest, Colleges and Universities
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Newtown massacre leads to security assessments nationwide
The Washington PostFor Lisa Betts and her husband, the conversation started Friday at their Silver Spring, Md., home, not long after they heard about the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 children and six staff members at a Connecticut school. How safe, they wondered,...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Interior Policy, Adam Lanza
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Naughty and nice: That’s the million-dollar question
The Religion WorldWake Forest University is spending $1 million to better understand virtue and vice. The Character Project awarded eight grants on the philosophy of character and eight on the theology of character from 170 submitted proposals. “Those selected... -
James M. Buchanan dies at 93; won Nobel Prize in economics
James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93. He died Wednesday at a hospital in Blacksburg, Va., according to...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Murfreesboro, Florida State University, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards
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Michael Rocco transferring to Richmond, to play for uncle
Former University of Virginia quarterback Michael Rocco is transferring to Richmond where he will play for his uncle. The University of Richmond announced Rocco’s move Monday. Rocco, a Lynchburg native and Liberty Christian Academy graduate, spent...
Tags: Football, Sports
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Morgan should keep David Wilson as president
As a former member of Morgan State University's board of regents from 1993 to 2011, I served on the search committee that recommended hiring David Wilson as president. I am appalled and disappointed by my former board colleagues' decision not to renew his...Tags: Morgan State University, Education, Martin O'Malley, Colleges and Universities
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Robert A. Makofski, scientist
Robert A. Makofski, a retired Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory scientist and administrator who headed Howard County General Hospital's board, died of cancer Dec. 25 at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine. The former Columbia resident was 81....Tags: Howard County General Hospital, Metal and Mineral, Engineering, Technology, Science
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CSUSB Student Killed by Police Had Mental Health Issues
KTLA NewsSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KTLA) -- Family members of a 38-year-old Cal State San Bernardino grad student who was fatally shot by police say he suffered from bipolar disorder. Bartholomew Williams, who was working on his second master's degree in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, Behavioral Conditions, University of Missouri , Injuries and Wounds
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Five questions with Vince Talbert
For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has focused on one thing: Bill Me Later.
The 45-year-old Baltimore native co-founded the online payment company with three partners in 2000. The company helps Internet shoppers buy stuff online without a credit...Tags: AOL LLC, Credit and Debt, Education, Business, Colleges and Universities
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