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    The former medical director of a Virginia hospital that treats vulnerable children and young adults has been acquitted of sexually abusing two teenage patients during physical exams. Dr. Daniel Davidow worked for decades as the medical director of the Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, a facility that treats young patients with complex medical needs, including chronic illnesses, brain injuries and neurobehavioral disorders. The charges against Davidow were decided Friday by a judge instead of a jury. Judge B. Elliot Bondurant found Davidow not guilty of two counts of a felony indecent liberties charge and two counts of object sexual penetration, also a felony.

      A Vietnamese-based company will build its first North American solar panel manufacturing plant in eastern North Carolina, creating over 900 jobs. Boviet Solar executive joined Gov. Roy Cooper and others on Friday to announce the nearly $300 million investment in Greenville. Boviet makes solar panels and photovoltaic cells that are already used in the U.S. by commercial, industrial and residential customers. A state Commerce Department document says that Boviet also considered alternative sites for the plant in Phoenix and Atlanta before choosing Greenville. Boviet could receive $34.6 million in combined state and local incentives for the project.

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