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          <title>Student missionary from Virginia found slain on Pacific island</title>
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A 20-year-old Seventh-day Adventist student missionary from Virginia was found murdered on the Pacific island of Yap after going jogging near the school where she was teaching.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Miley Cyrus tour bus overturns on I&#45;85; driver killed</title>
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Cyrus was not aboard the bus, which was one of four traveling in a caravan to the pop star&#8217;s next concert in Greensboro, N.C.           ]]></description>
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          <title>GOP candidate commits to &#8216;never sway&#8217; from core conservative beliefs</title>
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In what he described as an &#8220;unconventional&#8221; campaign announcement, one Republican candidate running for the 5th District GOP nomination pledged to 10 goals Thursday in Danville.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: $3.5 billion shortfall means local governments will feel the pinch</title>
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Local governments aren&#8217;t likely to escape the pain when the General Assembly attempts to eliminate an estimated $3.5 billion hole in the next two-year budget.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Study highlights tax&#45;burden disparity</title>
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Low- and middle-income families pay a disproportionate share of taxes in Virginia, a study by a tax policy institute concluded Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kaine cites budget concerns in his final months</title>
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RICHMOND&#8212;Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine&#8217;s term expires in less than two months, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s leaving behind his concerns about the future of the commonwealth.           ]]></description>
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          <title>VIDEO: 1 dead after hunter mistook students for deer</title>
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          <title>UPDATE: FAA glitch not affecting Lynchburg airport</title>
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The computer glitches affecting flights at some airports have not canceled or delayed flights at Lynchburg Regional Airport today, said Rick Stein, deputy director of the airport.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia correctional officers accused of dog fondling won&#8217;t be prosecuted</title>
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The five correctional officers charged in October with animal cruelty for fondling a K-9 dog and videotaping the incidents will not be prosecuted.
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          <title>Sen. Reid&#8217;s health care plan carries $849 billion price tag</title>
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Setting up a historic year-end debate, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid revealed his long-awaited version of legislation to reshape the nation&#8217;s health-care system last night, a measure designed to extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions.
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          <title>State transit plan faces $851.5 million cut</title>
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Virginia transportation officials say they will have to slice $851.5 million out of Virginia&#8217;s six-year transportation plan, which has already been hit with $3.7 billion in cuts since the spring of 2008.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Execution offers look behind the scene</title>
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JARRATT &#8212; Shortly before Larry &#8220;Bill&#8221; Elliott was put to death for killing a Woodbridge couple in 2001, he wrote that the justice system &#8220;failed me.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Halifax County toddler drowns in pond near home</title>
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Police say the drowning of a Halifax County toddler in a pond near his home appears to be an accident.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Farms, crops soaked by recent rains</title>
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Last week&#8217;s torrential rainfalls have caused damage and delays to some Virginia farm crops, but the extent of losses is unknown, some agriculture experts said Monday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tuition increase looks likely at UVa.</title>
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The University of Virginia is likely both to raise tuition and ask alumni to dig deeper into their pockets as the university seeks to find a more sustainable funding model in an era of dwindling state support.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Embattled Del. Hamilton resigns from Va. House</title>
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Del. Phillip A. Hamilton, R-Newport News, under an ethics cloud and defeated for re-election, has resigned from the House of Delegates seat he has held for 21 years.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kaine says he would &#8216;definitely&#8217; have run again if allowed</title>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told Virginia Board of Education members this morning that if he could run for governor again that he &#8220;definitely&#8221; would have and continue his efforts to improve education for the state&#8217;s 1 million-plus students.
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          <title>Legislators choose leaders</title>
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The Virginia House of Delegates&#8217; Democratic and Republican caucuses each elected their leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session during the weekend.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Panel debates constitutionality of disruptive speech</title>
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Anti-war protesters try to shout down President George W. Bush at a July 4 naturalization ceremony at Monticello. U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouts &#8220;You lie!&#8220; at Barack Obama during an address by the president to Congress. Angry constituents shout in the faces of their congressmen at health care town halls.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Budget boss a top concern for McDonnell</title>
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In late summer, with polls pointing to victory, Bob McDonnell may have realized his No. 2 in the attorney general&#8217;s office, Bill Mims, was out of the running for gubernatorial chief of staff.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Schools face cuts as Virginia recalculates index</title>
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The hits keep coming for Virginia&#8217;s financially strapped school divisions.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UVa board set to OK demolition of more dorms</title>
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The University of Virginia&#8217;s Board of Visitors is poised to greenlight yet another round of demolitions of the university&#8217;s 1960s-era residence halls.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Nelson County mother, wife of terrorist attack victims sends message of peace</title>
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Nearly a year after terrorist bullets snuffed the life forces of her husband and daughter, Nelson County resident Kia Scherr hopes her new Web site will help other people find positive forces in their own lives.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Danville TEA Party snuffs bonfire after uproar</title>
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UPDATE 8:10 p.m. MondayThe Danville TEA Party has officially cancelled its bonfire and effigy burning planned for Saturday after the event received nationwide interest, according to the group&#8217;s chairman, Nigel Coleman.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Online ads in Virginia gubernatorial race &#8216;set the standard&#8217;</title>
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The day before the Nov. 3 election, Bob McDonnell&#8217;s campaign paid Google about $39,000 to saturate computers in Virginia and Washington with banner ads promoting the candidate.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Retired policeman speaks in Farmville on occult</title>
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Juggalos, Wiccans, Satanists and vampires are all subcultures of the occult that are on the periphery of the mainstream. But the recent quadruple homicide in Farmville at the home of a Longwood University professor has thrust these lifestyles into the headlines.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Attorney plans tell&#45;all book about executed D.C. sniper</title>
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 A Baltimore attorney who became a confidant of executed D.C. sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad is writing a book about him.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama eyes domestic spending freeze</title>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Obama administration has alerted domestic agencies to plan for a freeze or even a 5 percent cut in their budgets, part of an election-year push to rein in record deficits that threaten the economy and Democrats&#8217; political prospects next fall.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hunters ready for general deer season</title>
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Saturday morning will mark an annual ritual for thousands of area hunters, who will hit the woods for the opening morning of deer season.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Miller Center will record George W. Bush oral history</title>
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Former President George W. Bush has chosen the Miller Center of Public Affairs to conduct an oral history of his presidency.           ]]></description>
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A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Civil War commission sends Virginia schools a history lesson</title>
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More than 2,000 DVDs explaining the causes, conflicts and consequences of the Civil War have been mailed to all public schools in Virginia.
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          <title>Lou Dobbs leaving CNN for &#8216;new opportunities&#8217;</title>
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CNN&#8217;s Lou Dobbs, a lightning rod for criticism following his transition from a business journalist to an opinionated anchor on such issues as illegal immigration, told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show to pursue new opportunities.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Death penalty rare, executions rarer in military</title>
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If history is any judge, the Army might find it challenging to impose the death penalty on the suspect in the bloodiest mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base.           ]]></description>
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Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of killing 12 soldiers and one civilian in last Thursday&#8217;s shooting spree at Fort Hood.           ]]></description>
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Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.           ]]></description>
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A Virginia Tech center for student collaboration in a wing that was the site of mass shootings in 2007 has been named for an engineering professor who was slain.
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Convicted slumlord Oliver C. Lawrence will get to experience life in the Richmond City Jail and one of his own neglected rental properties.           ]]></description>
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A Danville man died Saturday night as a result of a motorcycle accident in Pittsylvania County.           ]]></description>
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Despite losing more than 600 jobs and closing 19 interstate highway rest areas this summer because of Virginia&#8217;s budget crisis, Virginia Department of Transportation officials say they have the manpower, materials and equipment to keep the roads clear of ice and snow this winter.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:07:31 EST</pubDate>
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JARRATT &#8212; John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks in October 2002.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:29:20 EST</pubDate>
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History told Virginia Democrats it wasn&#8217;t going to be easy.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:47:11 EST</pubDate>
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Big win notwithstanding, Republican Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell will start his reign hampered by a slashed state budget, a politically divided legislature and a sour economy.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:41:44 EST</pubDate>
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The founder of a restaurant chain known for his religious views is lending a hand to a Virginia group&#8217;s attempt to build a Christian school system.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:17:05 EST</pubDate>
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The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 at Fort Hood is able to talk, a hospital spokesman said Monday, but it&#8217;s unknown when investigators might take advantage of his improving health to press forward with their probe into the shooting spree.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Three injured when Virginia&#45;registered plane crashes in South Carolina</title>
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Three people have been injured in the crash of a small Virginia-registered plane.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:12:57 EST</pubDate>
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday&#8217;s scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:05:05 EST</pubDate>
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On Oct. 24, police captured John Allen Muhammad and teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo at a rest stop 50 miles northwest of D.C. The nerve-tingling terror that had gripped the region&#8217;s 5.4 million people and captivated the nation was over.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:48:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Fort Hood soldiers ready for return after shooting that killed 13</title>
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Across Fort Hood, signs point to a post on the mend after Thursday&#8217;s shooting spree that killed 13 and wounded another 29. Accused gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, shot in the torso by civilian police to end the rampage, was in critical but stable condition and breathing on his own at an Army hospital in San Antonio.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:29:22 EST</pubDate>
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Hundreds of volunteers are wrapping up after three days of searching for missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, only to find nothing.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:12:51 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: McDonnell says health care public option no help to Virginia</title>
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Virginia Gov-elect Bob McDonnell said this morning that he hasn&#8217;t read the entire health-care bill that narrowly passed the House of Representatives last night but that the &#8220;public option does not seem to be something that&#8217;s going to help us in Virginia.&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:52:35 EST</pubDate>
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Two of the six Democrats in Virginia&#8217;s congressional delegation last night voted against President Barack Obama&#8217;s 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care reform plan.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:47:24 EST</pubDate>
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A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five others.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:14:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cuccinelli announces transition team</title>
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Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli is looking to predecessors from both parties for guidance on running the state&#8217;s law office, as well as enlisting the lawyer who beat Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell in court on a transportation fix that was ruled unconstitutional.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:12:51 EST</pubDate>
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Hundreds of volunteers jammed into the Cavalier Inn on Thursday night to help organizers prepare for a community search for clues in last month&#8217;s disappearance of a young woman in Charlottesville.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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With Tuesday&#8217;s election in the history books, one Republican candidate for Congress in 2010 isn&#8217;t wasting time getting to know the 5th District.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:14:05 EST</pubDate>
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He liked his Mountain Dew cold and his pencils sharpened. And he loved Loretta Lynn.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:43:28 EST</pubDate>
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Political pundits looking beyond the state&#8217;s GOP sweep warn that Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District is on shaky ground in 2010 because the district&#8217;s constituents are unhappy with national policies.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:37:05 EST</pubDate>
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The family of Morgan D. Harrington is seeking volunteers to redouble the efforts to locate the Virginia Tech student who disappeared Oct. 17 after leaving the John Paul Jones Arena.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:35:53 EST</pubDate>
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In his first day as governor-elect, Bob McDonnell yesterday announced his transition committee leaders, including Tom Farrell, chairman and CEO of the state&#8217;s largest utility, Dominion Resources.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:02:31 EST</pubDate>
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At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Dan and Gil Harrington formally announced three days of searches to be held in Charlottesville this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the search for their missing daughter Morgan.           ]]></description>
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An ebullient Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele asserted today that GOP victories in governors&#8217; races in Virginia and New Jersey demonstrate &#8220;a transcendent party&#8221; on the move again.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:23:48 EST</pubDate>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, the National Democratic Committee chairman, and House Republican Whip Eric I. Cantor of Henrico County squared off on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show this morning over the impact of yesterday&#8217;s elections that saw Republicans capture governorships here and in New Jersey.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:20:33 EST</pubDate>
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A year after tipping Democratic for president for the first time since 1964, Virginia fell to Republicans in a dramatic statewide sweep that is a historic reminder of its enduring competitiveness but may not be a model for a national GOP comeback.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:46:40 EST</pubDate>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to stop next week&#8217;s execution.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:43:41 EST</pubDate>
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A 28-year-old clerk at a Christian bookstore in Simi Valley has been arrested on charges of peeping at customers in the restroom with a video camera.           ]]></description>
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Elected just a year ago, the president has spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to ensure that Democrats win governor&#8217;s races in Virginia and New Jersey and pick up a GOP-held congressional seat in upstate New York.           ]]></description>
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A soured love affair may have led an ex-convict to gun down four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series &#8220;The Andy Griffith Show,&#8220; police said Monday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:28:44 EST</pubDate>
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Dan and Gil Harrington are using the donations to print and distribute fliers and other material with a photo and description of 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington.            ]]></description>
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A man suspected of fatally shooting four men in the parking lot of a North Carolina television shop was arrested early today in Virginia, police said.           ]]></description>
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After all the noise over Democrats&#8217; push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent.           ]]></description>
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The flag-draped casket that President Barack Obama saluted early yesterday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware contained the remains of a former student at Virginia Military Institute.           ]]></description>
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At least two issues stand between Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, and a &#8220;yes&#8221; vote on the health care bill that was proposed in the House of Representatives this week, he and his spokeswoman said Friday.           ]]></description>
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She can&#8217;t explain the light that burned brightly without electricity or the overturned salt dishes on the dining room table, so Anne Holton puts it this way:           ]]></description>
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A North Carolina-based paratrooper charged after he helped subdue a fellow soldier who later died has agreed to a plea bargain that could give him 30 days in jail and dock his pay. 
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A motorized La-Z-Boy used by a man who pleaded guilty to driving it drunk is going up for auction.           ]]></description>
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In October 2002, the shots came from out of nowhere, as seemingly random as they were cold-blooded, leaving 10 dead, three wounded, and millions of people frightened.           ]]></description>
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says new health care legislation will make affordable, quality health care available to nearly all Americans and represents a historic step.           ]]></description>
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One professor called it spiteful.           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s ban on alcohol-related advertising in college newspapers is before a federal appeals court in Richmond.           ]]></description>
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The death of Joshua Woolmer, 13, of Edgewood, Md., raised to three the number of people killed in wrecks in the last week on a quarter-mile stretch near 29&#8217;s intersection with Plank Road, police said.           ]]></description>
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A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student faces a felony charge after a prank involving a wooden rifle prop, Chesterfield County police said.           ]]></description>
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A revised proposal to limit jury anonymity to cases where it is warranted has been posted on the high court&#8217;s Web site.           ]]></description>
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Phil Bradley shivered in lonely silence on the mountain by the demolished plane. His injuries left him unable to move. He knew better than to look at the bodies of his fellow passengers. If help didn&#8217;t come soon, he realized he&#8217;d face a more agonizing death than any of them had.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama is giving a jolt to the futuristic &#8220;smart&#8221; electric grid, hoping to bring America&#8217;s power transmission system into the digital age more quickly.           ]]></description>
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A Baltimore city police officer delivered the fright of a lifetime to a haunted house employee, pulling a gun on the chain-saw-wielding man at the end of his act, authorities said Monday.           ]]></description>
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What&#8217;s bigger than a picnic basket and even better than one in the eyes of black bears that live in Yosemite National Park?           ]]></description>
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One of the two nuclear reactors at Dominion Virginia Power&#8217;s North Anna Power Station remained shut down yesterday because of what the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission called &#8220;an unusual event.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Separate helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans in insurgent-wracked Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said. It was one of the deadliest days of the war for U.S. troops.           ]]></description>
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An 88-year-old woman in Colorado Springs who walks laps around a nursing home in memory of her deceased husband has hit a major milestone: 10,000 miles.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency.           ]]></description>
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The superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park told a newspaper he is being reassigned because U.S. Interior Department investigators discovered that he used his federal computer to view sexually explicit images.
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A burglar with a conscience returned a keepsake containing a boy&#8217;s ashes to his Orlando mother after seeing the woman talk about it on television.            ]]></description>
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Heaven Wilson, 6, was the 10th person in Virginia to die from causes related to the H1N1 flu, the state Health Department said yesterday.           ]]></description>
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&#8216;Inside Edition&#8217; will finance a four-day trip to Virginia so Marion Lewis, whose daughter was killed by Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad, can watch Muhammad&#8217;s execution  in exchange for interviews before and after.           ]]></description>
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