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The journalist unpacks how the ocean helped her discover her history.
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Photo courtesy of Natasha Lindeback/Natasha Lindeback had to get creative.
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Screenshot by NPR/Electronic ArtsCritic Linda Holmes has been playing The Sims since the early 2000s.
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Nick McNamara / WHRO/For nearly 60 years, this office has explored the nature of consciousness.
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Matt Slocum/APIf a judge orders Google to sell Chrome, it could dramatically upend the multibillion-dollar online search business.
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Nick McNamara/WHROThe project takes donated firearms and converts them into garden tools.
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KD Toole/BPR NewsBlue Ridge Public Radio compiled a list of more than 35 organizations providing relief in the area.
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Hulton Archive/Keystone/Getty ImagesThe superstition of Friday the 13th isn't as old as you think. Here are some of the potential origins of unlucky days around the world.
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Leahruth Jemilo/The collector's response has stayed with Leahruth Jemilo ever since.
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Chesterfield CountyThe county is asking the public to choose from four animal finalists.
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CURE (Clergy United for Racial Empathy), a inter-faith group of clergy, board a bus to visit the places where painful racial history began to learn how to better ally to those affected negatively by racism. Go inside a Silent Reading Party at a Henrico County school where introverts spend time with a good book & make new friends without ever saying a word. Visit Mama J’s in Historic Jackson Ward.
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Virginia is currently 49th in the nation for support services provided to foster care children who are not adopted and therefore age out of Virginia's… -
State lawmakers are considering several bills to expand parole eligibility in the Commonwealth.
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Last December, Camille Schrier, a pharmacy student at Virginia Commonwealth University, was crowned Miss America after performing a science experiment during the talent portion of the competition.
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Millions of Americans are forced from their homes every year. Evictions are usually considered in economic terms -- an outcome of housing supply and income levels -- but what about their physical and emotional impact?
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This story inspired by NAMI Virginia (National Alliance on Mental Illness) hopes to help enlighten & end the stigma of mental illness with a personal, moving story of coping with bipolar disorder by an accomplished educator, Tammy Ozolins. We learn more about the high level of addiction within the restaurant industry and how a support group is giving them hope.
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After volunteering at a dog shelter in Thailand for a month, a Richmond woman is now trying to raise $1,500 to bring three stray puppies to the United States.
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Life for children and youth in Virginia's foster care system is often tumultuous and filled with uncertainty. Frequently, they are required to change homes and schools multiple times before the age of 18. At that point, youth not adopted into permanent homes must "age out" of the state's foster care system.
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DuPont plans to invest more than 75 million dollars and create 60 new jobs in Chesterfield County.
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Chesterfield County residents along Jefferson Davis Highway will soon have easier access to the GRTC bus system.
