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Members of the Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority, along with a number of local officials, gathered Friday for the official groundbreaking of the Amherst County Adult Detention Center in Madison Heights.
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          <title>Deer numbers leaping ahead</title>
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Deer are a common sight across Central Virginia but state game officials and hunters are trying to keep their numbers down.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE - An undertaking that is transforming a 19th-century Charlottesville church into a day shelter for the homeless is nearly completed.           ]]></description>
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The Salvation Army&#8217;s Red Kettle Campaign will be more than a drop in the bucket this year.            ]]></description>
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ROME &#8212; A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Defendant admits to killing in Pittsylvania murder trial</title>
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CHATHAM &#8212; Dennis Lee Daniel fidgeted on the witness stand as he answered questions Friday in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court.           ]]></description>
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As a high school student, Ricky Bomar was saving people&#8217;s lives.           ]]></description>
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          <title>What&#8217;s killing cows and chickens in Pittsylvania County?</title>
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Something is killing livestock in Pittsylvania County. On one farm near Renan, nine calves were found dead last week &#8212; bringing the number of cattle killed there in the past year to 16. No one is sure who or what delivered them to their deaths.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Burglars steal box holding baby&#8217;s ashes</title>
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An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.
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The trial of a Lynchburg woman accused of running a house of prostitution on Garfield Avenue was delayed Friday when her lawyer said a doctor has judged her mentally incompetent.
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          <title>Does the IRS owe you money? Check our database to find out</title>
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Check our database to see if you have an unclaimed IRS refund check.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Authorities still investigating Lynchburg College fire</title>
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Authorities are still investigating what started a fire at a Lynchburg College storage building that caused more than $130,000 in damage.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Local leaders play teacher for a day</title>
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The children lean forward, bellies over the table. Paul Sunwall, general manager of the Lynchburg Hillcats, sits with his hand against his cheek, studying the card in front of him. An instant later, his fingers are on the card and he is rattling off the math equations needed to make a total of &#8220;24&#8221; from the card&#8217;s four numbers.
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          <title>Brookville cheerleaders triumph over tragedy</title>
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A July 29 car accident, which sent three Brookville High School cheerleaders to UVa Medical Center, marked the beginning of a competitive cheerleading season marred by serious squad-member injuries - but also a heightened emotional bond and spirit of teamwork among the girls.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The Community Dialogue on Race and Racism presenting symposium</title>
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The Community Dialogue on Race and Racism will present a &#8220;Racial Equity Symposium&#8221; at 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at Randolph College&#8217;s Smith Theatre.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Rustburg man convicted of child sexual battery sentenced</title>
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A 66-year-old Rustburg man convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual battery of two children was sentenced to two years&#8217; incarceration Wednesday in Campbell County Circuit Court.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sweet Briar College cutting budget as enrollment dips</title>
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Sweet Briar College will temporarily suspend retirement benefits and lay off some workers to make up for a $950,000 revenue shortfall caused by lower-than-expected fall enrollment numbers.           ]]></description>
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Renovation of two residential buildings at Central Virginia Training Center could begin within a few weeks, state officials said this week.           ]]></description>
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For a couple of days, one of Lynchburg&#8217;s best-known historic properties was heading to the foreclosure auction block.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Police: Woman robbed in CVS parking lot</title>
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Shortly before 2 p.m., a man walked up to the woman as she walked to her car in the parking lot of the CVS at of Langhorne and Atherholt roads, said Capt. Brandon Zuidema of the Lynchburg Police Department. The man threatened her but did not display a weapon.           ]]></description>
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The open house will feature tours of the Jubilee facility, including the Vocational Center, where visitors will see a robotics demonstration, an aspiring chef preparing a dish in the Culinary Arts Kitchen and an instructor describing the Nurse Aide program.           ]]></description>
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Virginia and its localities should stop building more prisons and jails because a decade-long building program has led to undercrowding, a state budget analyst said Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Portion of road named for Nelson County Marine who died in Iraq</title>
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A month after the Nelson County Board of Supervisors adopted policies for naming county-owned public facilities and state-maintained roads, highways and bridges, they approved the first such request &#8211;&#8211; to name a half-mile portion of Virginia 151 after a Nelson County Marine who died in Iraq.           ]]></description>
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The Fairview Heights Neighborhood Center, 3621 Campbell Ave., is back in operation following the completion of ceiling repairs and exterior painting work.
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DANVILLE - Uranium mining opponents say flooding like the type that occurred in Pittsylvania County last week would pollute the water supply if uranium mining and milling take place at Coles Hill.            ]]></description>
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Fire heavily damaged a Lynchburg College storage facility used to house sporting equipment Wednesday night, Lynchburg Fire Department officials said.           ]]></description>
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The Virginia University of Lynchburg is launching the biggest fundraising effort in its history Thursday in support of the ongoing restoration of its campus.           ]]></description>
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Liberty University&#8217;s School of Engineering and Computational Science, which is slated to expand to a new campus starting next fall, received a boost this week by way of a $300,000 grant from Simio, a Pittsburgh-based technology company.           ]]></description>
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Flu-like illnesses have declined slightly in Central Virginia but precautions have not, health officials said Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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Virginia is doing better at reducing premature births, but the state still gets a grade of D because too many babies are born before full term, according to the March of Dimes.           ]]></description>
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Before we take the turn into 2010, The News &amp; Advance is compiling a list of the biggest stories of the decade for our area.            ]]></description>
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Space shuttle Atlantis is closing in on the International Space Station.
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The Amherst County School Board is already preparing to figure out the district&#8217;s next budget, setting a series of workshops and also planning to meet with legislators and county supervisors next month.
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The Virginia Retirement System has selected Genworth Financial Inc. as its choice to offer long-term-care insurance as a fringe benefit to its more than 600,000 members, retirees and beneficiaries.
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The Lynchburg Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office is investigating a fire that happened at the R.S. Payne Elementary School playground.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hunter charged in fatal shooting of Ferrum student</title>
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A deer hunter faces manslaughter and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a Ferrum College student and the wounding of another.           ]]></description>
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The bad economy will result in another $250 million to $300 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30, House of Delegates money committees were told Tuesday.&nbsp; 
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Heritage Elementary School Assistant Principal Amy Huskin will replace April Bruce as the new principal of T.C. Miller Elementary School.           ]]></description>
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The enrollment drop in the Lynchburg City Schools may have slowed for now.           ]]></description>
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City and school administrators say their ongoing consolidation effort has already generated some minor savings and bigger-ticket ideas are under development.           ]]></description>
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JARRATT &#8212; A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by electrocution in over a year.            ]]></description>
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The continuing recession and approaching winter are causing concern for food banks across the country and at home.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst Board of Supervisors sought public opinion Tuesday night on whether to allow wind turbines in the county, but delayed making any decisions.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Video game thieves strike store</title>
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Several copies of a popular newly released video game were stolen last week from a store on Wards Road.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:08:35 EST</pubDate>
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Centra ranks among the best hospitals in the nation for cardiovascular care in a recently released report.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Investigators searching for minivan in connection with students&#8217; deaths</title>
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Investigators with the Montgomery County Sheriff&#8217;s Office are looking for information on a vehicle that was seen near the site where two local Virginia Tech students were killed in August.           ]]></description>
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The authority of Virginia&#8217;s juvenile-court judges is being usurped by prosecutors and higher courts in a process that too often mixes juvenile offenders and adults and that helps transform juvenile lawbreakers onto career felons, according to a study released today.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Former Hardy volunteer firefighter pleads guilty to embezzlement</title>
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A former Hardy Volunteer Fire Department firefighter pleaded guilty this morning to embezzling thousands of dollars from the department.           ]]></description>
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The state of Virginia, which already has had to cut $6 billion from the two-year budget ending June 30, 2010, may have to cut $250 million to $300 million, the House Appropriations Committee was told today.           ]]></description>
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A mother charged in the death of her baby faces a judge on an unrelated drug charge.           ]]></description>
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Larry &#8220;Bill&#8221; Elliott is scheduled to die in the electric chair tonight, a month after Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine delayed his execution.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Atlantis heading to space station with Heritage High grad on board</title>
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Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the space station Wednesday. In the meantime, the astronauts will pull out an inspection boom Tuesday and check their ship&#8217;s thermal shielding.           ]]></description>
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Parents of students in the Campbell County schools should receive phone calls and e-mails Thursday as part of a test for a new emergency alert system.            ]]></description>
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A week after several pointed comments were made about the work it does, the Historic Preservation Commission has decided to seek some face time with City Council.           ]]></description>
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BEDFORD &#8212; A developer&#8217;s plan to build attached homes in a neighborhood taking shape at Smith Mountain Lake received approval from Bedford County planners Monday.            ]]></description>
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Campbell County will file a motion this week asking a judge to set aside a jury&#8217;s decision last month that granted a $9 million judgment in favor of owners of a mobile home park who had sued the county, administrator David Laurrell said Monday.           ]]></description>
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Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., joined a leading Republican senator Monday in sponsoring a bill that, they said, would double nuclear-produced electrical power in 20 years and support other forms of clean energy with &#8220;mini-Manhattan projects.&#8221;
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An airplane towing a banner depicting the hand of a human fetus lying on top of a dime flew for three hours over Lynchburg on Monday and is expected to return Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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AMHERST &#8212; The town of Amherst and Witco Inc., the operator of local Quik-E Foods stores, agreed Monday to pay a former town homeowner $75,000 to settle a lawsuit over a 2004 sewage backup.           ]]></description>
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Astronauts climbed aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for an afternoon liftoff to the space station, and Lynchburg native Leland Melvin is on the crew.           ]]></description>
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Police are searching for the person who shot two Lynchburg men in their legs.           ]]></description>
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An early morning crash on the Lynchburg Expressway has left a Rustburg man with life-threatening injuries.           ]]></description>
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Failure to yield and failure to use headlights after dark caused a two-car crash on U.S. 460 in Thomas Terrace on Sunday that sent three adults and a child to the hospital, police said.
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Campbell County School Board members will take a look at proposed changes to the division&#8217;s policy regarding parents who also are registered sex-offenders at their meeting Monday.           ]]></description>
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This school year, the Lynchburg City Schools are adding extra time for extra help. Superintendent Paul McKendrick has directed all elementary, middle and high school principals to divert time to &#8220;enrichment periods&#8221; during the regular school day this year.            ]]></description>
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A Goodview man is facing malicious wounding charges after a shooting incident at his home Saturday, officials with the Bedford County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.           ]]></description>
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More than 100 students from four area colleges combined their manpower to take a bite out of world hunger Saturday.           ]]></description>
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Using your debit card to buy a $2 cup of coffee when there is $1 in your account could cost you an extra $30 in overdraft fees today. After new rules on those fees take effect, that purchase could be denied instead, costing embarrassment but not money.           ]]></description>
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Bedford County officials plan to ask state legislators to lower speed limits on all secondary roads in the commonwealth from 55 miles per hour to 45 unless otherwise posted.           ]]></description>
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When Mary Lowry enters the pasture at Brook Hill Farm, a large paint horse named Flagstaff heads straight for her. Horse and human move toward each other, finally meeting in the middle, just as Flagstaff starts nipping at the cell phone in Lowry&#8217;s hand.           ]]></description>
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A physician in the Lynchburg area has been named the president of the Medical Society of Virginia for the second year in a row.           ]]></description>
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The 49th annual Lynchburg Christmas Parade will be held on Dec. 5 with the theme, &#8220;A Star-Spangled Christmas.&#8221;
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APPOMATTOX &#8212; Citizens from the town of Appomattox gathered Wednesday night to discuss what they wanted to see in their community&#8217;s future.
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RUSTBURG &#8212; The second phase of a landfill pollution trial that had been scheduled for Friday was delayed.           ]]></description>
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A Lynchburg man convicted of wounding two people during a March 22 drive-by shooting on Madison Street will spend 37 years in prison.           ]]></description>
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The first Lynchburg astronaut to go up in space is about to experience the second trip of a lifetime.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, near the site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks. Prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty.           ]]></description>
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) &#8212; The Colorado parents accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting their son was aboard a runaway balloon have pleaded guilty to charges that could bring some jail time and probation.           ]]></description>
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The state&#8217;s community colleges will increase tuition for next semester, and Virginia Commonwealth University plans to eliminate 91 jobs as the schools attempt to absorb multiple cuts in their budgets.           ]]></description>
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Swine flu appears to have been cut in half in Virginia.           ]]></description>
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BEDFORD &#8212; A proposed hospice that has received community support over the past several years will locate on an acre of Bedford County land on Falling Creek Road.           ]]></description>
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BEDFORD &#8212; The Bedford County School Board reviewed a proposed policy Thursday that, if approved, would alter the division&#8217;s student discipline procedures.           ]]></description>
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A water main break in Lynchburg left 75 to 80 homes in the Tenbury Drive area high and dry Thursday morning.           ]]></description>
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Once an upscale steakhouse and one of the more expensive restaurants in town, Shoemakers Fine Dining is reinventing itself as a more affordable family eatery.           ]]></description>
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A dance born halfway around the world, and characterized by colorful, swinging skirts, heel stomping, hand clapping and classical guitars, has now made its way into Nelson County.           ]]></description>
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A Lynchburg woman has been missing for more than a month, and police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating her.           ]]></description>
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The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford will remain open for the winter despite financial struggles, memorial foundation president William McIntosh said today.           ]]></description>
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The area&#8217;s heaviest three-day rain event of the year should abate today after causing closed roads, downed trees, cresting rivers and at least one fatality.           ]]></description>
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Heavy rains today flooded roads and threatened the Virginia coast and other low-lying areas as officials braced for more problems at high tide this afternoon.           ]]></description>
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Ten days after his lopsided victory diminished their numbers, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell will meet tomorrow with members of the House Democratic Caucus.           ]]></description>
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Appalachian Power is increasing the discharge of water from the Leesville Dam into the Staunton River this morning to combat rising water levels at Smith Mountain Lake and the Leesville reservoir.           ]]></description>
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