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          <title>Plane crash fatal</title>
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Single-engine aircraft wrecks in Steeles Tavern, killing all aboard

The plane&#8217;s flight path.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Many struggle as economic woes continue</title>
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 A year ago Sunday, when gasoline prices in Virginia hit $4 per gallon, Kimberly Ann Calos wasn&#8217;t worried.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama seeks new start in sagging US&#45;Russia ties</title>
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Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Biden: Israel free to set its own course on Iran</title>
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Vice President Joe Biden signaled that the Obama administration would not stand in the way if Israel chose to attack Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, even as the top U.S. military officer said any attack on Iran would be destabilizing.           ]]></description>
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          <title>NO SURVIVORS IN McCORMICK CRASH</title>
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A small, single-engine plane crashed in a field on the Augusta/Rockbridge county line early Sunday, killing all aboard, state police said.
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          <title>Collision causes pileup</title>
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A woman lost control of her minivan Saturday afternoon, causing a literal pileup at the corner of Rosser Avenue and Thirteenth Street. Drivers of four cars were shaken up in the wreck. None was hospitalized.           ]]></description>
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          <title>NKorea fires missiles in 4th of July salvo</title>
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North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles Saturday into waters off its east coast in a show of military firepower that defied U.N. resolutions and drew global expressions of condemnation and concern.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Traditional approach</title>
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For families looking for an atypical Independence Day festivity, many turned to tradition Saturday at the Frontier Culture Museum&#8217;s historical celebration.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Marking the Fourth of July</title>
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Giant flag flies           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man&#8217;s disappearance a &#8216;big mystery&#8217;</title>
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Authorities don&#8217;t suspect foul play involved           ]]></description>
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          <title>Palin resigning as Alaska governor</title>
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down &#8212; throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.            ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Nature&#8217;s fireworks&#8217; basking in glow of a good year</title>
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A wealth of fireflies is turning every night in the Richmond area into the Fourth of July.           ]]></description>
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Large garrison flag to fly today outside municipal building downtown           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ranger: Snake bite was bogus</title>
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A riled rattler didn&#8217;t bite five times, nor even once.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Motocross approved</title>
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VERONA &#8212; Augusta County zoning officials Thursday backed a special-use permit for a Motocross track and sports park development in Greenville.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Officials: Safety first on 4th</title>
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The safest fireworks are those launched by trained professionals, public safety officials say, but sales haven&#8217;t waned for at-home displays as another Fourth of July holiday approaches.
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          <title>Hiker missing</title>
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Searchers comb area surrounding Wintergreen Resort for country club president           ]]></description>
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          <title>Taylor named school board chairman</title>
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Coping with the ever-tightening state and local budgets will be the toughest challenge for the Waynesboro Schools during the next year, the new school board chairman said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Psychedelic mushrooms grow off radar</title>
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Rare bust nabbed non-addictive and relatively non-toxic drug           ]]></description>
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          <title>Snake bite bogus, ranger says</title>
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A man airlifted from the Blue Ridge Parkway this week falsely reported being bitten by a snake, authorities determined today.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Mushroom bust largest ever</title>
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Man&#8217;s psychedelic horde makes city history           ]]></description>
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          <title>Condition of bite victim is still unknown</title>
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Despite their fearsome reputation, timber rattlesnakes rarely sink their fangs into people, and especially not more than twice, as appears to have been the case with a man bitten while hiking just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, experts said Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Climate change bill faces criticism</title>
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The 1,500-page climate change bill that has passed the House of Representatives and is awaiting its day in the Senate promises to leave less change in the pockets of the public, according to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, and industry experts.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Car splashes into pond</title>
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Police: Canned air recovered from waterlogged vehicle            ]]></description>
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A woman cleaning the Staunton Public Library spotted an intruder just after 11:20 p.m. Tuesday, leading to the arrest of a Lexington man.           ]]></description>
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A driver lost control of his car this morning, riding 150 feet off the road and into a shallow pond near Route 250.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fires scorch 2 separate homes on &#8216;unusual night&#8217;</title>
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A sandwich toaster likely sparked a fire in a vacant Second Street home early Tuesday, a surprise to the homeowner, who suspects a trespasser tampered with appliances she said she left unplugged while away.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fire demolition of home raises DEQ concern</title>
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VERONA &#8212; Fire crews rushed to the scene of a fully engulfed mobile home Tuesday afternoon, but arrived to find a controlled burn that caused more concern with state environment officials than firefighters.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Snake bites man on Blue Ridge Parkway</title>
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A 48-year-old man was taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon after suffering a snake bite on the Blue Ridge Parkway.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Area unemployment rises modestly</title>
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Expert says recession will last into 2010           ]]></description>
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          <title>Wintergreen: 1,442&#45;acre donation to be preserved</title>
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More than 1,400 acres surrounding Crawford Knob in Nelson County will be preserved as wilderness after Wintergreen Resort officials donated the property to the nonprofit Wintergreen Nature Foundation.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fractious faction</title>
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Rift arises among Waynesboro&#8217;s conservative bloc           ]]></description>
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          <title>Charges of perjury brought against 3</title>
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A months-long Middle River Regional Jail investigation led to three arrests this week, with additional charges expected, jail officials said Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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Police arrested a woman Monday on charges of breaking into Quizno&#8217;s with a male accomplice and stealing an empty cash drawer.           ]]></description>
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A months long Middle River Regional Jail investigation led to three arrests this week.           ]]></description>
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Police arrested a woman on charges of breaking in to Quizno&#8217;s and stealing an empty cash drawer with an accomplice.           ]]></description>
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In an &#8220;unusually busy&#8221; night, Waynesboro firefighters confronted two house fires during a single shift starting Monday.           ]]></description>
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Thieves stole music players, GPS units and cash from 10 vehicles scattered across Waynesboro during the weekend, continuing a trend of break-ins this month.           ]]></description>
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Ruling requires forensic analysts to appear at trial for questioning           ]]></description>
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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation filed suit Monday in Richmond Circuit Court asking that Merck&#8217;s Elkton plant meet a nutrient pollution goal it originally agreed to in the Shenandoah-Potomac River basin.           ]]></description>
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Motorcycle collision that killed 2 highlights challenge of rural riding           ]]></description>
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Police Briefs           ]]></description>
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Four days out of jail, a Stuarts Draft man ignored a protective order and ransacked his wife&#8217;s home Sunday.           ]]></description>
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Two men wanted on out-of-state warrants were arrested in Staunton during the weekend.           ]]></description>
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Police report a red and white Honda scooter was stolen Saturday night from the parking lot of Scotto&#8217;s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria.           ]]></description>
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Arizona bill would allow guns in bars           ]]></description>
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Couple has trouble meeting demand for honey           ]]></description>
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Men crash head-on in same 1-mile stretch as May 30 wreck           ]]></description>
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Effort gives Kenyan widows a foothold on their future           ]]></description>
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Despite more construction and carpet orders, nylon line needs surer footing           ]]></description>
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Frontier Culture project attracting worldwide attention           ]]></description>
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COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; Texas Gov. Rick Perry was raising money at campaign headquarters when an Associated Press reporter called his press staff to ask what he was doing. An hour later, he walked into AP&#8217;s statehouse bureau to show he was alive and well and not, say, in South America for a romantic rendezvous.            ]]></description>
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Most of 879 bills approved to take effect Wednesday           ]]></description>
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Albemarle not &#8216;actively pursuing&#8217; recoup of $19,551           ]]></description>
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Elephants evicted from landfill site on city concerns           ]]></description>
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell said Friday he is not sweating a GOP losing streak in U.S. Senate and gubernatorial elections that stretches back to 2001.           ]]></description>
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With a machete in hand, and later a chainsaw, Waynesboro-born artist Mark Cline brought down his herd of fiberglass elephants Friday afternoon, three months after their appearance on April Fools&#8217; Day.           ]]></description>
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Saxman praises Western State Hospital project announcement           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:32 EDT</pubDate>
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Authorities say they snared a Roanoke man in a covert sting targeting Internet sex crimes against children.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:16 EDT</pubDate>
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Blue Ridge Community College professor Nell Tiller will join 15 educators from across the U.S. to participate in the month-long 2009 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad: History and Culture in China Program, administered by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
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In the hours after 911 calls came in about shots fired at cars on Interstate 64, dozens of Albemarle County police officers worked on the crime scene, tracked leads and worked with other law-enforcement agencies to try to find the shooters.           ]]></description>
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Blue Ridge Community College professor Nell Tiller will join 15 educators from across the U.S. to participate in the month-long 2009 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad: History and Culture in China Program, administered by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.           ]]></description>
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Del. Chris Saxman praised the vote of the Staunton City Council in adopting a memorandum of understanding at its Thursday meeting regarding the Western State Hospital project, calling it &#8220;huge for our area.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Police Wednesday arrested a man on charges of breaking in to Quizno&#8217;s and stealing an empty cash drawer.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES &#8212; Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the &#8220;King of Pop&#8221; and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50.            ]]></description>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Staunton City Council unanimously adopted a memorandum of understanding at its meeting Thursday. The deal to build a new, smaller Western State Hospital &#8212; and thereby free up more than 250 acres along Interstate 81 and Route 250 for a land-locked city to develop &#8212; brings the project one key step closer to fruition.            ]]></description>
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STAUNTON &#8212; A judge Thursday sentenced two men to prison for technology-based sex crimes.           ]]></description>
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GREENVILLE &#8212; Augusta County officials estimate that a Riverheads fire and rescue station staffed with volunteers would respond to more than 800 calls a year.           ]]></description>
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Elephants evicted from landfill site on city concerns           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE &#8212; Of all of the labels that might belong to Slade Allen Woodson, one of the two Interstate 64 shooters, &#8220;monster&#8221; is not one of them, a judge has decided.           ]]></description>
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Undercover cop is offered $400 to kill Stuarts Draft man&#8217;s ex-wife and her boyfriend, according to testimony during a preliminary hearing Thursday.
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The Butterfly Conservatory           ]]></description>
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FISHERSVILLE &#8212; More than 40 years ago, Jim Rothrock arrived at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center with a spinal cord injury suffered in a sledding accident.           ]]></description>
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Staunton authorities Wednesday dropped a charge against a man accused of concocting a story to defend a woman who recently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.           ]]></description>
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Board narrowly agrees to receive bids on slated $2.4M renovation            ]]></description>
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A Staunton man wanted for identity theft hasn&#8217;t been seen in the area in six months, but authorities Wednesday obtained a felony warrant for his arrest.           ]]></description>
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Of all of the labels that might belong to Slade Allen Woodson, one of the two Interstate 64 shooters, &#8220;monster&#8221; is not one of them, a judge has decided.
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          <title>Living in the past</title>
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History camp students learn diplomacy           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:19 EDT</pubDate>
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Two people were hospitalized early Tuesday when a Ford Mustang slammed into a utility pole.
At about 2:20 a.m., police responded to the 200 block of Bridge Street, finding an abandoned Mustang against a utility pole with blood inside, said Staunton police Officer Lisa Klein.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE &#8212; As Shahnaz Ghassemi walked amid the protesters in Tehran, the Albemarle County resident passed a woman holding up a poem, shielding her face, fingers painted with green nail polish curled around the paper&#8217;s edges.           ]]></description>
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A crash early Tuesday hospitalized two, but Staunton police are unsure who was driving a car that struck a utility pole.           ]]></description>
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Authorities Wednesday obtained an arrest warrant for a suspected ID thief.           ]]></description>
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Police Briefs           ]]></description>
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Timber rattlers slither into the summer in Virginia&#8217;s mountains           ]]></description>
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Investigators looking into the deadly crash of two Metro transit trains focused Tuesday on why a computerized system failed to halt an oncoming train, and why the train failed to stop even though the emergency brake was pressed.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:22 EDT</pubDate>
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Additional 135 years of sentence suspended           ]]></description>
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Three Waynesboro men pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing and beating a fourth man with a baseball bat, then walked free from jail on sentences of time served: about six months.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:03 EDT</pubDate>
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Riot police cracked down anew on demonstrators in Iran&#8217;s capital on Monday hours after the feared Revolutionary Guard threatened to crush any further post-election protests.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama seems to have broken one of his first campaign promises: to kick his cigarette habit.           ]]></description>
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Heritage Museum funds restored, 1 furlough day eliminated           ]]></description>
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The man who guided the state&#8217;s largest National Guard unit during eight months in Iraq has moved on.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:01:22 EDT</pubDate>
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During the day, mothers and their children sit in the yard. Miller smokes on the front stoop. Teens coast surrounding sidewalks by bike. At night, &#8220;9 o&#8217;clock, every Friday,&#8221; a neighbor said, the yard &#8220;gets hot.&#8221;            ]]></description>
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The Augusta County Board of Supervisors will vote Wednesday night on whether to proceed with accepting bids on the second phase of renovating the Augusta County Library in Fishersville.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Official death toll in wake of Iran election reaches 17           ]]></description>
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Sunshine signals switching seasons on solstice           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:01:55 EDT</pubDate>
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In his first major test of international leadership, President Barack Obama is struggling for the right response to Iran&#8217;s postelection upheaval as political opponents at home accuse him of inaction.            ]]></description>
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FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, pay           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:01:37 EDT</pubDate>
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I believe Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, was right when he said that closing rest areas was more political than practical (&#8220;Rest stops among state budget cuts,&#8221; June 19).           ]]></description>
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Thousands of protesters defied Iran&#8217;s highest authority Saturday and marched on waiting security forces that fought back with baton charges, tear gas and water cannons as the crisis over disputed elections lurched into volatile new ground.            ]]></description>
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Fathers in  focus           ]]></description>
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