Family 'Ambushed' By Trump Suggestion To Meet With Woman Who Caused Fatal Crash

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In a bizarre moment Tuesday that seemed straight out of reality television, President Trump dropped a bombshell on a grieving British family — surprising them with the news that the woman who had killed their son in a car crash was in a nearby room and then urging the family to meet with her.

Virginia doctor could face life in prison for prescribing hundreds of thousands of opioids

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“A Virginia doctor could face life in prison at his sentencing next week for prescribing half a million doses of opioids to patients over a two-year...”

Joel Smithers, a 36-year-old father of five, was arrested at his southern Virginia practice in 2017. In May, he was found guilty on more than 800 counts of illegally prescribing drugs, including the oxycodone and oxymorphone that killed a West Virginia woman. Smithers’ mandatory minimum...

Green Bank Telescope detects most massive neutron star ever observed

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A neutron star with 2.17 times the mass of our Sun crammed into a sphere 18.6 miles across has been observed 4,600 light years from Earth by astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County. The high-density neutron star is the most massive ever detected, and approaches...

Couples were asked to tell their race for a Virginia marriage license. Now they're suing.

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“The state's requirement to label race is "scientifically baseless" and "reflective of a racist past," says the federal lawsuit filed by three couples.”

The suit was filed Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia and slams the state statute as "offensive," "unconstitutional" and "reflective of a racist past." One of the couples, Sophie Rogers and her fiancé, Brandyn Churchill, went to the Rockbridge Circuit Court clerk's office to obtain...

Exclusive: Second homicide identified in string of deaths at VA hospital; family 'floored' Donovan Slack, USA TODAY

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When federal investigators contacted the Shaw family at their farm in rural West Virginia last winter, they had an unusual request: They wanted to exhume the body of George Nelson Shaw, Sr., who had died several months earlier, to examine his body for foul play. The family had thought his...

A man's missing dentures were found stuck in his throat 8 days after surgery

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““Stay on the safe side,” an expert said. “Inform your physician of what’s going on in your mouth.””

Here’s why it’s best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them. A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72-year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck in his throat during surgery and weren’t discovered for eight days.

American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

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Ten years ago, Renee Bach left her home in Virginia to set up a charity to help children in Uganda. One of her first moves was to start a blog chronicling her experiences. Among the most momentous: On a Sunday morning in October 2011, a couple from a village some distance away showed up at...

Cheesesteak Stuffed Peppers

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So, I found the pic and accompanying recipe for the group avatar that seemed to interest many of us.  This does not mean that I have tried this recipe; I haven't.  But it sounds good, and it looks like it's low-carb, too.

Gum disease and heart disease: The common thread

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“How plaque on your teeth may be connected to plaque in your arteries.”

People with gum disease (also known as periodontal disease) have two to three times the risk of having a heart attack, stroke, or other serious cardiovascular event. But there may not be a direct connection. Many people with heart disease have healthy gums, and not everyone with gum disease...

A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases

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“Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.”

Autoimmune diseases turn people’s own immune systems against their bodies. In the United States alone, women represent 80 percent of all cases of autoimmune disease. Women are 16 times more likely than men to get Sjogren’s syndrome, in which the immune system goes after the glands that make...