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Enjoy incredible fireworks displays throughout Loudoun County. The schedule includes events throughout the independence day weekend so you can get your fill of fireworks.
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Sunday, April 26th, Aveda Services South East hosted the 3rd Annual Night of Fashion for the Earth at the Aveda Institute in DC’s Chinatown. Approximately 30 salons from the southeast area submitted designs in response to the water theme.
New research suggests that stores in poor neighborhoods are much less likely to offer healthy foods than those in wealthier parts of town. Researchers are familiar with the idea that poor people have a harder time getting access to healthy food.
Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick has submitted a revised bankruptcy plan that funnels more of his future earnings to creditors, though a judge did not immediately rule on the proposal.
Vick filed the new Chapter 11 plan yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newport News.
Read full story via Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Part of the Dulles Greenway was shut down July 2nd after a tractor-trailer, which was carrying construction waste, jackknifed and then overturned. Officials say the tractor-trailer had to be unloaded of the construction waste before it could be uprighted and removed from the scene.
Read full story via NewsChannel 8.
A Clarke County woman who had climbed into a city Dumpster was accidentally picked up by a garbage truck and transported to the Regional Landfill Thursday morning.
Authorities have not released the identity of the 48-year-old woman, but according to county Sheriff’s Office Maj. Robert Eckman, she was unharmed when workers at the landfill opened the trash bin and found her there.
Read full story via Winchester Star.
On July 1, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is requiring manufacturers to put a Boxed Warning on the prescribing information for the smoking cessation drugs Chantix (varenicline) and Zyban (buproprion). The warning will highlight the risk of serious mental health events including changes in behavior, depressed mood, hostility, and suicidal thoughts when taking these drugs.
Health care professionals who prescribe Chantix and Zyban should monitor patients for any unusual changes in mood or behavior after starting these drugs. Patients should immediately contact their health care …
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