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2024 Local Heroes Series Features Statewide First Responders
DMV Campaign Aims to Convince Virginians to Buckle Up, Slow Down and Drive Sober Before the first dispatch to the scene. Before the fire trucks and the ambulances and the CPR. Before the rush through the ER doors. Before an officer delivers the news no family wants to hear. There are decisions to be made. […]
DC area placed under drought watch
Local governments declared the Washington, D.C., area under a drought watch as an unusually dry year continues in parts of northern Virginia, Maryland, and D.C. The Drought Coordination Technical Committee of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, a group of 24 local governments in the area, issued the drought watch Monday and urged residents to consider water-saving tactics […]
VA Tech Researchers on Quest for Clean Water
Water is abundantly present in our lives — drinking fountains and showers, garden sprinklers, swimming pools, reservoirs and streams — that it can become invisible, always in sight but often out of mind. Yet, contamination risks can endanger that abundance. August is National Water Quality Month, a time to contemplate conserving natural water sources and […]
VCU Burn Center first in Va. to treat patients with new technology using their own skin cells
Severe burn injuries for patients can cause massive trauma and pain and take months, if not years, to heal. A new innovation in skin regeneration technology is allowing for faster healing times using a patient’s own skin while reducing the chance for infection. VCU Health Evans-Haynes Burn Center’s long-established...
Man, woman killed in Frederick County, Va. collision
FREDERICK COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Two Frederick County residents died after a head-on collision Tuesday afternoon, the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) said. The crash happened just before 3 p.m. in the 3000 block of Martinsburg Pike, just south of Stonewall Elementary School. Frederick County Fire and Rescue and FCSO crews arrived to […]
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