The Daily Populous

Wednesday August 1st, 2018 day edition

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Stephen Dalton Baril, a grandson of a former governor of Virginia, entered an Alford plea to charges of misdemeanor sexual battery and felony unlawful wounding.

A grandson of a former governor of Virginia has avoided prison time after being accused of rape.

Judge Humes J. Franklin on Friday sentenced the 21-year-old former U.Va. student to five years' supervised probation.

Franklin accepted the plea agreement, deeming it a fair compromise, in part because neither party was happy.

In a victim statement, the woman condemned the "year and a half of hell," Baril put her through.

She has rebuilt her life over 17 months and said she agreed to a plea deal to avoid reliving the trauma.

Baril is the grandson of John Dalton, a Republican who served as governor from 1978 to 1982. »

Indiana Textbook Commission member charges that Robin Hood is communistic

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White of the Indiana Textbook Commission, calls for the removal of references to the book Robin Hood from textbooks used by the state’s schools.

Mrs. Young claimed that there was “a Communist directive in education now to stress the story of Robin Hood because he robbed the rich and gave it to the poor.

One joked that the “enrollment of Robin Hood in the Communist Party can only make sensible people laugh.” »

11,000 Wikileaks Twitter DMs Have Just Been Published For Anyone To Read

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Thanks to journalist Emma Best, you can now rifle through 11,000 direct, private messages sent to and from Wikileaks' Twitter account.

Best released the messages Monday, saying they came from the "Wikileaks + 10 chat," a private group for the organization's more active supporters.

Best told Forbes in Twitter direct messages the leaked Wikileaks DMs showed it was biased against Clinton. »

Video recordings spotlight poor communication between nurses, doctors

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ANN ARBOR—Communication breakdown among nurses and doctors is one of the primary reasons for patient care mistakes in the hospital.

The recordings showed that nurses didn’t directly request what they wanted or express their needs.

The study also found that because doctors and nurses approach patient care from vastly different angles, achieving understanding isn’t easy. »