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Today's college and university students are leaving school with larger debts than their predecessors and having a harder time finding jobs to be able to repay those loans, according to a report released this week by the California-based Institute for College Access and Success.

Chesterfield County police Lt. Doug Mooney was named Farmville's new police chief today.

Raymond D. Bradley is director of acute-care services in the Healthcare Industry Group at Goodman & Company.

Another Cabell County athlete decides her Division I future. Cabell Midland High School senior Bethany Law put pen to paper on Tuesday afternoon, signing her National Letter of Intent to play tennis at Longwood University.

Virginia has 332 state-run liquor stores flung into all corners of the state. Some do big business.

Grass growing in front yards. Cars parked behind houses instead of on lawns. Empty beer cans? Only a few.

The State Board for Community Colleges approved an increase to the tuition rate at Virginia's Community Colleges that will take effect beginning in the spring 2010 semester for both in-state and out-of-state students.

Emily Traylor wasn't ready to go directly to a four-year university. She wanted to ease into college life.

Two weapons - a ball-peen hammer and a wood-splitting maul - were used to bludgeon four people found dead inside a Longwood University professor's home in September, a source close to the investigation confirmed Tuesday.

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The four murders inside a Farmville home, in September, left stains, stained clothes and stained weapons - including a wood-cutting maul and a knife A- in most of the rooms in the residence on First Avenue near the Longwood University campus.

Farmville, VA _ A Prince Edward County Grand Jury has handed up seven indictments against 20-year-old Horrorcore Rapper Sam McCroskey of California, in the September murders of four people at a house in Farmville.

Anthony Crocitto has been named the head womena s basketball coach for the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury.

Thomas and Janna Theado of Fredericksburg are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Ashley Marie, to Brian Anthony Raska Jr., son of Margaret Peters of Madison, and Brian Raska Sr.

Bethlehem University and human-rights groups are appealing to Israeli authorities not to deport a final-year student back to her home in Gaza after she was arrested on Wednesday at a military checkpoint near Bethlehem, in the West Bank.

CHARLOTESVILLE - The nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is 100 years old this year.

The overseers of Virginia's embattled computer agency are quarreling among themselves over proposals to rein in the agency's new boss.

That was the message Powhatan small business owners heard at an October panel discussion aimed at readying local merchants for a future that seems likely to include Walmart.

THE PANEL Ray Brastow associate professor of economics, Longwood University Robert Dolan professor of economics, University of Richmond Del.