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• Staffers at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News say administrators repeatedly ignored warnings about the behavior of the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his teacher. According to other teachers at the school, the boy previously wrote a note threatening to light a teacher on fire.—Washington Post
• Amazon’s cloud computing division is planning to invest up to $35 billion in several data center campuses across Virginia by 2040.—WTOP
• The University of Virginia received a $100 million private donation, one of the largest in the school’s history, to create a new biotechnology institute.—Forbes
• “Debt, lobbying, and distrust hamper funding for higher ed in Virginia.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
• A crowd of about 600 people, including Confederate reenactors in Civil War uniforms, turned out to watch the reburial of Gen. A.P. Hill’s remains at a Culpeper cemetery. The event featured a riderless horse, cannon fire, and a eulogy by a Hill impersonator.—Free Lance-Star
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