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Did you know there are 300+ trees tracked by the Virginia Big Tree Program?

Defense attorneys said Wednesday that a former Virginia Tech football player feared for his life when he fatally beat a person he met online in April 2021.

College athletes have just earned the right to sell their name, rights and images to bidders outside their universities. Legislation passed in California and a recent Supreme Court ruling have paved the way to let student athletes profit off their work.

Camille Schrier started participating in pageants when she was 14 years old, but she left that behind when she began her undergraduate studies at Virginia Tech.

In this Virginia Currents feature, find out what's new and what's mistakenly thought of as true when it comes to concussions. We talk with Dr. Gunnar Brolinson, Chair of Sports Medicine at Virginia Tech and VT Team Physician at the VT Helmet Lab in Blacksburg, VA.