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NCI funding advances efforts against acute myeloid leukemia.

The department will host 15 events and a scavenger hunt from October 4-11 as part of the week, which is sponsored by the National Fire Prevention Energy. This year’s theme focuses on lithium-ion battery safety.

After kind of a false start with the effort around the time of the pandemic, Charlottesville schools parents are banding together with a citywide PTO fund.

Peter Chang’s China Grill, the Szechuan restaurant in the Barrack’s Shopping Center famous for delivering heat and flavor, is closing this month.

Although cooperative in the investigation, a 20-year old suburban Richmond woman faces charges in the Wednesday night pedestrian accident that killed a 67-year old man on Emmet Street.

City Council Monday night will consider the purchase of a $6.2-million property at 2000 Holiday Drive next to the Econo Lodge for a possible low-barrier homeless shelter.

The Mountaineers are one of 25 finalists in T Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights competition, which will award the winning school with a $1 million field renovation among other prizes. The school has already won $30,000 as part of the contest.

Republican Scott Smith and Democrat Fred Missel shared a number of similarities in a Free Enterprise Forum event but also shared different experience on how to approach issues as potential Albemarle Samuel Miller District supervisors.

Trump’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence” requires universities to cease considering gender and race in admissions decisions.

Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors is stopping where they are right now, and happy to live for a while with the ordinance adopted last April regulating data centers.