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A Fluvanna County developer who wanted to try a new sewage treatment system for a cluster development took his case to court after being shut down by a tie vote of the county’s board of supervisors. Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. declared that the denied special use permit was unnecessary, according to the Charlottesville […]

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A Giles County grand jury has determined that a power company project to dump 254,000 cubic yards of coal ash on property beside the New River in Narrows is not a public nuisance. The Roanoke Times has the story here.
The law that permits citizens to ask for a grand jury investigation of alleged public […]

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The federal Food and Drug Administration has issued salmonella warnings about raw tomatoes and food products containing them. Grocers and restaurants have responded by yanking the tomatoes from the shelves, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The FDA is seeking to determine where the salmonella came from; at least 23 people across the country have been hospitalized […]

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Thieves used the Social Security number of a University of Virginia microchemistry professor to steal $22,000 from his credit card account, reports The Daily Progress. Patrick Grant’s personal information was among the data on U.Va. faculty that was breached twice within the past year.

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