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Public pursues clues in Mountain Lake mystery
Giles County investigators are getting lots of help as they try to track down whose bones were discovered in the dried-up lake bed at Mountain Lake resort. With intriguing clues like an old class ring, shoes and an engraved belt buckle, numerous amateur...Tags: New York Times, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Virginia Tech, New York
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Shaq Loses Another Badge For Rap About Kobe
Associated PressBEDFORD, Va. -- Shaquille O'Neal's raunchy rap in which he mocked former teammate Kobe Bryant is costing him another of his lawman badges. Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown said Wednesday that he has asked the Phoenix Suns center to return a badge he was...Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, Phoenix Suns, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Kobe Bryant, Mike Brown
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Local schools emphasize cleanliness to stop staph
757-247-4758At least three local cases of treatment-resistant bacterial infections and the death of a Bedford County high school student attributed to the same infection have highlighted the need to be clean at area schools. The Roanoke Times reported that Ashton...Tags: American Medical Association, Isle of Wight County, Viral Diseases, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Health Organizations
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Drug-resistant bug hits another student
A second York County student has come down with a drug-resistant staph infection — the latest local victim of a bacteria that reportedly killed a Bedford County high school student earlier this week and has infected at least 10 other students across...Tags: Mathews County, James City County, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Denbigh
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A doctor's prescription
Dr. J. Drew O'Neal need not look any further than his own foot to see how bad a drug-resistant staph infection can be.
He's missing part of his right heel as a result of a nearly year-long battle with the stubborn and sometimes deadly methicillin-...Tags: American Medical Association, Therapies, Viral Diseases, Michigan, Health Organizations
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Feb. 4, 2007: Lehigh Valley lawyer Peter Karoly killed when plane crashes during landing attempt
Of The Morning CallProminent Lehigh Valley lawyer and businessman Peter J. Karoly was killed Friday with his wife and a pilot in a plane crash south of Boston that his brother blames on inadequate airport lighting. Karoly, 53, was the owner of the Allentown Ambassadors,...Tags: Montour County, Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Transportation Accidents, Employment, Minor League Baseball
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History lessons in Lynchburg area
Special To The SunAdrive around Virginia's Lynchburg area links history from Thomas Jefferson's era to the end of the Civil War to June 6, 1944. Lynchburg, which traces its beginnings to a ferry established by John Lynch in 1757, is the site of Poplar Forest, an octagonal...Tags: Ulysses S Grant, Public Holidays, National Government, Tourism and Leisure, History
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New war a reminder of hurts that haven't healed
Tribune senior correspondentFor Elizabeth Teass, the beginning of a new American war revives distant memories of a conflict that shattered this little Blue Ridge Mountain town, marking it forever as a place defined by the sacrifices of its citizen soldiers. Elizabeth was the...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Death and Dying, Virginia, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Armed Forces
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