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Old Dominion shocks No. 13 VTech 49-35 behind backup QB
Blake LaRussa came off the bench to throw for 495 yards and four touchdowns to lead Old Dominion to a 49-35 upset of No. 12 Virginia Tech on Saturday.
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Former college student found guilty for role in teen’s death
Natalie Keepers was charged as an accessory in the 2016 fatal stabbing of Nicole Lovell. Keepers’ friend David Eisenhauer is serving a 50-year sentence after pleading no contest earlier this year to first-degree murder in connection to the death.
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Ex-Virginia Tech student’s trial begins in girl’s 2016 death
Natalie Keepers has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory before the fact to David Eisenhauer in the 2016 fatal stabbing of 13-year-old Nicole Lovell.
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Donations to Virginia Tech top $150 million
Donors made more than $153.6 million in new gifts and commitments to the university during the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
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Checking work email outside office is killing your mental health
Do you obsessively check your work email account when you’re out of the office? You might be harming your romantic relationships — and your mental health — a new study from a Virginia Tech expert shows.
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Newspaper sues ex-reporter over control of Twitter account
BH Media Group Inc., the parent company of The Roanoke Times, filed a lawsuit Monday alleging Virginia Tech football beat reporter Andy Bitter has misappropriated trade secrets by using the account at his new job at The Athletic website.
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Incoming Virginia Tech class most diverse in school history
Virginia Tech’s 6,400-member freshman class is deliberately smaller than last year’s class of 6,800, but is fast approaching its goal for first-year students classified as either as first-generation, low-income or minority students.
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Virginia Tech to honor grad who died in US Navy training
Virginia Tech plans to add the name of a graduate who died in a U.S. Navy training exercise to its Pylon memorial.
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Giant hogweed, a toxic plant you need to know about in Va.
A dangerous invasive weed that can grow to towering heights has turned up in Virginia for the first time. The plant’s sap can cause severe burns.
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Virginia Tech autonomous watermelon harvester wins top prize
The team’s entry was a harvesting system that can locate, identify, sort and harvest ripe watermelons in a field.
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Cyber research grants to help attract companies to Virginia
Virginia Tech and George Mason University will each receive a $250,000 grant to hire a top researcher in cybersecurity, amid the launch of a state initiative aimed at attracting Amazon and other high-tech companies to northern Virginia.
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Virginia Tech researchers work to stop spread of lanternfly
A team of Virginia Tech researchers and state entomologists is working to stop the spread of an invasive insect that has the potential to seriously damage Virginia’s grape and orchard industries.
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Va. Tech president who led university through mass shooting dies
Virginia Tech President Emeritus Charles William Steger Jr., who brought the campus through the 2007 mass shooting tragedy, died Sunday evening, at his home in Blacksburg, Virginia. He was 70.
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Former student expelled after gun arrest sues Virginia Tech
Yunsong Zhao filed a complaint Thursday saying police violated his rights in falsely arresting him, and school officials violated his due process rights in dismissing him.
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Years later, Virginia Tech shooting survivor and first responder finally meet
A Virginia Tech shooting survivor, who is now the executive director of a nonprofit, finally met the first responder who helped her when she was shot on April 16, 2007.
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