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Jeff O'Dell stands with colleagues Staff Sgt. Chris Earles and Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Tippett in Iraq in 2010.

To a crowd of 12,000 graduates and their families, Stephen Colbert acted as the keynote speaker at the valedictory exercises for the 2013 University of Virginia graduating class.

The "Scandal" star and 1998 GWU grad sweetly attempted the usual rite of self-deprecation expected of all commencement speakers: "Year after year, GW sends its graduates into the world on the wings of advice from esteemed leaders and thinkers.

The nationwide Click It or Ticket campaign starts off Monday morning. Albemarle police tell say they will have several officers working grant-funded overtime shifts for extra enforcement.

Robert Straus Lipman and Susan Orr Gracey of Nashville proudly announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Norman Lipman to Stephen August Orthwein Junior, son of Stephen August Orthwein and Virginia Flynn Orthwein of St.

Saturday they launched Virginia's first Homelessness Speaker's Bureau to create a more personal connection between people who live on the streets and the people who pass them by without a second glance.

Virginia Discovery Museum's 23rd Annual Discovery Dash , held on the Monticello High School track, was for runners between the ages of three and 12.

A Nelson County man diagnosed with cancer last year returned to the University of Virginia Saturday to reconnect with a special nurse who cared for him.

If you need a major joint replacement, Rockingham Memorial Hospital will charge about $17,000 less than Augusta Health.

The host of the Emmy Award-winning show "The Colbert Report" gave the valedictory address at the University of Virginia Saturday.

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Great Bridge's Connor Jones is No. 33 on Baseball America's latest list of the top major league draft prospects.

The clock is ticking for the University of Virginia's class of 2013. The university's final exercises kick off with valediction on the lawn Saturday morning - depending on Mother Nature.

Emerging folk band The Winter Line will make their debut appearance at The Garage on Tuesday, May 21st at 8 p.m. sharp.

Parents and some board members at Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 had negative reactions to a report from a committee that has been studying advanced learning in the district for the past three years.

A University of Virginia professor has decided not to move forward with his lawsuit against the university.

Maryland's state universities announced that in-state undergraduate tuition would rise by 3 percent, the same amount as the past three years.

Dr. Kwame Norton, the principal at Kilmer Elementary in Cherry Hill, has been selected as the new principal at Cherry Hill High School West.

Charles Brooks Jr., 50, of Greenville, is in critical condition at the University of Virginia Medical center following a motorcycle crash.

Every parent with a college-age child worries about the spiraling cost of education.