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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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          <title>Trial of accused Lynchburg madam delayed</title>
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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>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>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>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>Letters to the Editor for Friday, November 20, 2009</title>
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          <title>Ethics Probe of Legislator Is Essential</title>
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Del. Phil Hamilton, of Virginia Beach, was one of the most powerful legislators in the General Assembly. He was chairman of the powerful Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee in the House of Delegates. He was the No. 2 Republican on the omniponent Appropriations Committee, chaired by Del. Lacey Putney, of Bedford. He also was a House budget conferee who, each year, played a key role in developing the state&#8217;s budget. Behind Speaker of the House Bill Howell, of Stafford County, and Putney, he was arguably the third-most powerful person in the Assembly.           ]]></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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          <title>Renovations at CVTC could begin within weeks</title>
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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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          <title>Landmark Rivermont house off auction block</title>
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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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          <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>Jubilee center marks 10 years</title>
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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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          <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>Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable?</title>
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Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Budget analyst: Stop building prisons</title>
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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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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>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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          <title>Fairview Heights center back open</title>
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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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          <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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Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; astronauts are about to step out on the first spacewalk of their mission.           ]]></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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Twenty years ago, Virginia high school students with good grades and extracurricular activities had little trouble gaining admission to their choice of the state&#8217;s top colleges and universities.           ]]></description>
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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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Appomattox County High School&#8217;s backyard sounds like a barnyard.           ]]></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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Like most poets, John Casteen IV loves to quote other poets: William Butler Yeats, for instance.           ]]></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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Possibly as remarkable as the political pairing in support of a tax-code change to renovate old schools is the range of good it would do, former Gov. and U.S. Sen. George Allen told the Richmond Crusade for Voters last night.           ]]></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>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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Space shuttle Atlantis is closing in on the International Space Station.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:23:29 EST</pubDate>
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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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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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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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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>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:51:03 EST</pubDate>
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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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Several copies of a popular newly released video game were stolen last week from a store on Wards Road.           ]]></description>
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A mother charged in the death of her baby faces a judge on an unrelated drug charge.           ]]></description>
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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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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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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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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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It makes no sense. Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and illness in the United States. It also causes cancer, heart disease and other fatal conditions.
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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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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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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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The hits keep coming for Virginia&#8217;s financially strapped school divisions.           ]]></description>
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Police are searching for the person who shot two Lynchburg men in their legs.           ]]></description>
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