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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>
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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>
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          <title>Hundreds sign up to find missing Virginia Tech student</title>
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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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          <title>GOP congressional hopefull tours 5th district</title>
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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>
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          <title>Man thought to be oldest with Down syndrome dies</title>
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He liked his Mountain Dew cold and his pencils sharpened. And he loved Loretta Lynn.           ]]></description>
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          <title>What does GOP sweep mean for 5th District in 2010?</title>
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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>
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          <title>Parents of missing Virginia Tech student plea for ground search volunteers</title>
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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>
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          <title>Governor&#45;elect McDonnell announces transition committee</title>
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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>
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          <title>Weekend searches scheduled for missing Virginia Tech student</title>
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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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          <title>Republicans celebrate, Democrats talk of rebuilding</title>
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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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          <title>Kaine, Cantor clash over election returns</title>
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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>
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          <title>GOP sweeps, but state still seen as competitive</title>
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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>
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          <title>DC sniper to ask Supreme Court to block execution</title>
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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>
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          <title>Camera found in bathroom of Christian bookstore</title>
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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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          <title>Virginia, New Jersey, New York races an early test of Obama influence</title>
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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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          <title>Ex&#45;con charged in 4 fatal shootings in North Carolina</title>
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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>
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          <title>Parents of missing Virginia Tech student set up fund to help search</title>
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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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          <title>Suspect in 4 N.C. killings arrested in Henry County</title>
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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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          <title>After all the fuss, government health plan to cover few</title>
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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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          <title>White House says stimulus saved or created 650,000 jobs</title>
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About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama&#8217;s economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president&#8217;s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.           ]]></description>
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          <title>VMI alumnus killed in Afghanistan honored by Obama</title>
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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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          <title>Perriello says he&#8217;s undecided on health&#45;care bill</title>
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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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          <title>Kaines allow for ghostly visitor at Exec. Mansion</title>
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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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          <title>Pelosi: New health care bill is &#8216;historic moment&#8217;</title>
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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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          <title>Congressmen: Obama Needs Congress&#8217; Ok To Receive Nobel Prize</title>
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One professor called it spiteful.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Court reviewing Virginia college booze ad ban</title>
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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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          <title>Second teenager dies after Albemarle County wreck</title>
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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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          <title>Historic Land: $3.67 deal brokered by Conservation Trust for N.C.</title>
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ALTAPASS - Three thousand people turned off the Blue Ridge Parkway this past weekend to visit the historic Orchard at Altapass, drawn by the valley and ridges covered in burnt orange and red, yellow and green.           ]]></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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Swine flu is especially risky for people with chronic illnesses, and it&#8217;s not the greatest news for an economy still trying to shake off recession.           ]]></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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BRISTOL &#8212; Three would-be bounty hunters face charges after they impersonated drug task force agents and nabbed the wrong woman, police said.           ]]></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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CHATHAM - The town of Chatham plans to take steps to address its problem with crumbling buildings and other eyesores that officials say blight their community.           ]]></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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The final debate in the campaign for attorney general took on racial overtones yesterday as Democrat Stephen C. Shannon accused Republican Ken Cuccinelli of being &#8220;an ideological crusader&#8221; who favors states&#8217; rights.           ]]></description>
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A baby girl found abandoned in a Chesterfield County neighborhood Monday may be as old as three weeks and could have been delivered at a medical facility, authorities disclosed yesterday.
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Virginia State Police have launched a statewide investigation into possible illegal voting by felons in last November&#8217;s election.           ]]></description>
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A gentle sea monster is prowling the James River.           ]]></description>
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Building the future of Shockoe Bottom is uncovering bits and pieces of its past.           ]]></description>
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Six Virginia schools made the National Science Foundation&#8217;s rankings of the top 200 research universities in the nation.           ]]></description>
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At the Virginia Military Institute, where three to six cadets share rooms &#8220;so small they put their bunks up during the day so they can get around,&#8220; officials had expected roommates also would share the swine-flu virus.           ]]></description>
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Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, trailing in the polls, is getting a late push from President Barack Obama, with a new TV ad, an e-mail plea and an appearance in Hampton Roads slated for a week before Election Day.           ]]></description>
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A federal appeals court has decided that an avowed white supremacist should remain in jail.
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The large aquatic mammal, also called a sea cow, was reported Tuesday just below downtown Richmond and several miles downriver, officials say.           ]]></description>
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Taser International is advising police agencies across the nation not to shoot its stun guns at a suspect&#8217;s chest.           ]]></description>
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A cat who rode two miles through New York City while stuck in the engine compartment of an SUV has lived to meow about it.           ]]></description>
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A Republican lawyer asked the State Board of Elections on Monday to fine Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds over contributions from unions.           ]]></description>
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Eight out of every 10 high school students in the class of 2009 graduated on time with a diploma, according to data released today by the Virginia Department of Education.           ]]></description>
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A newborn baby girl not more than 36 hours old was found crying in a Ukrop&#8217;s shopping bag yesterday afternoon in a neighborhood near Courthouse and Reams roads in Chesterfield County.
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A Vernon Hill man was found guilty Monday of animal cruelty after he stomped an opossum to death while on a June 20 ride-along with a Danville police officer.           ]]></description>
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Jury trials remain a favorite of American film and literature but not of the criminal-justice system, where their use long has been in decline here and across the country.           ]]></description>
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RICHMOND - Statisticians may think the price of everything is staying low, but it doesn&#8217;t look that way to the ladies at the Friendship Cafe at Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Richmond&#8217;s Church Hill.           ]]></description>
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The latest snapshot of state revenue collections shows that general fund collections dropped 7.5 percent in September compared with the same month a year ago.           ]]></description>
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The name of the office is attorney general, but you could almost add a subtitle: &#8220;Gubernatorial nominee in waiting.&#8221;
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The federal government is facing a lawsuit over billions in unclaimed bonds that date back to the patriotic fundraising efforts of World War II, leading to a showdown between states who say they should be given the money and a Treasury Department that claims ownership.            ]]></description>
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 The parents of a missing Virginia Tech student urged their daughter to come home.            ]]></description>
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Investigators say they want to question an associate of Richard Heene after e-mails surfaced showing the two had discussed a balloon hoax months ago as part of a public relations campaign for a reality TV show.           ]]></description>
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A 13-year-old involved in a Pittsylvania County car accident died from his injuries, said Sgt. Robert Carpentieri, a spokesman for the Virginia State Police.           ]]></description>
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As a young Army lieutenant stationed in Germany, Bob McDonnell made the Guinness Book of World Records.           ]]></description>
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Richmond police were working yesterday to solve a bold daylight robbery of an estimated $350,000 worth of merchandise that ranks among the largest jewelry heists in the city&#8217;s history.           ]]></description>
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The Western District of Virginia has a new U.S. attorney.            ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s barely adequate infrastructure needs comprehensive planning and reliable funding to remedy years of neglect, according to a state engineers group.           ]]></description>
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Foreclosure activity in Virginia rose 4.1 percent from July through September from the same period a year ago, according to a RealtyTrac report being released this morning.           ]]></description>
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Of 26 known copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence, three will be in Albemarle County on Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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A flash drive containing personal information for more than 100,000 former adult-education students is missing, according to state officials who now are trying to notify all those affected by the security breach.           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s state highway construction and maintenance program is going to shrink again.           ]]></description>
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Former Gov. George Allen and former Virginia Democratic Party Chairman Paul Goldman say they&#8217;ve come up with a way to address the state&#8217;s crumbling public school infrastructure and the need to put people back to work in the construction industry.           ]]></description>
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A Delaware first-grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school as punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school can return to class after the school board made a hasty change granting him a reprieve.           ]]></description>
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Sen. Olympia Snowe, the only Republican to support the Finance Committee&#8217;s health care bill, said Wednesday she could foresee a government-run plan that would &#8220;kick in&#8221; if private insurers failed to live up to expectations.           ]]></description>
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The claws are coming out in court case over a Georgia cat.           ]]></description>
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The director of the Virginia Lottery says she expects Powerball tickets to be available in the state by next spring.
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A pivotal Senate committee has approved a sweeping remake of the country&#8217;s health care system, delivering a long-sought boost to President Barack Obama&#8217;s goal of expanding coverage.           ]]></description>
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Democrat R. Creigh Deeds last night blasted Republican gubernatorial rival Bob McDonnell as a &#8220;smooth talker&#8221; who runs from his conservative roots, while McDonnell tied Deeds to the disputed policies of President Barack Obama.           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general hold sizable leads over their Democratic opponents, but large swaths of voters remain undecided, a Mason-Dixon poll shows.           ]]></description>
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An autopsy was planned Friday for a suburban mother who last year shocked other parents by openly carrying a loaded handgun at her daughter&#8217;s youth soccer game and this week was found shot dead with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide.           ]]></description>
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If a tree falls in a forest, will state forestry officials be around to hear it? Not on Fridays.           ]]></description>
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A parent&#8217;s complaint has prompted Roanoke County school officials to remove copies of a novel from the libraries of two high schools.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama said Friday he was honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a &#8220;call to action&#8221; to work with other nations to solve the problems of the 21st century.           ]]></description>
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Now that Democrat R. Creigh Deeds has closed his gap in the polls with Republican Bob McDonnell to single digits, it&#8217;s time for Deeds to make his case to Virginia voters, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday.           ]]></description>
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain are coming to Virginia to help their parties&#8217; candidates for governor.           ]]></description>
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With concerns mounting anew about the spread of the H1N1 flu virus, area hospitals are tightening visitation restrictions. Bedford Memorial Hospital is among those restricting its rules of visitation, Carilion Clinic officials said in a news release Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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The fever has broken. The patient is out of intensive care. But if you&#8217;re President Barack Obama, you can&#8217;t stop pacing the waiting room. Health care overhaul is still in guarded condition.           ]]></description>
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Virginia will use nearly $50 million in federal stimulus funds to reward energy-conserving consumers, businesses and localities with rebates on purchases of efficient appliances and alternative fuel choices.
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A man pleaded not guilty to armed assault with intent to murder after police said he shot his neighbor over a leaf-dumping dispute.           ]]></description>
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Police in Maryland say a driving lesson on Good Luck Road ended with a minivan crashing through an apartment wall.           ]]></description>
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