Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 17, 1994 TAG: 9407130052
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO
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A $21.3 million boost in state funding for higher education has held the average increase in tuition and fees for the 1994-95 school year to less than 3 percent at Virginia's public universities and colleges.
For the past three years, colleges have been compensating for a lack of state funding with double-digit tuition increases.
Tuition and fees will rise an average of about $70, or 2.9 percent, for in-state students attending major public universities, compared with 10.4 percent in 1993-94, according to a report released this week.
- Associated Press\ Woman sues makers of fatal decoration
WILLIAMSBURG - A woman has filed a lawsuit seeking $10 million from the manufacturers of a defective electric Christmas candle that electrocuted her 5-year-old daughter in December 1992. Lauren Fontan died at her family's home after she took the electric candle out of a window and put it in her mouth.
In the lawsuit, Cheryl Keyser accuses Noma Industries of Forest Park, Ill., of negligence and breach of warranty. An investigation determined that the light had been wired improperly.
- Associated Press\ Advocate for elderly quits state post
LYNCHBURG - An ombudsman appointed to improve treatment of the elderly has resigned, complaining the office has no real power.
The Virginia Department for the Aging will meet this month to examine the ombudsman program and the complaints made by Brian Clemmons, who left his job in April.
Clemmons now has another job in the agency and declined to be interviewed.
- Associated Press
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