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          <title>Circuit City files for bankruptcy protection</title>
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Shares in Circuit City have traded under $1 for more than a month and the company received a warning about that last month from the New York Stock Exchange.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama&#8217;s Roanoke visit set for Friday</title>
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According to Barack Obama's Web site the candidate will be in Roanoke Friday, Oct. 17.            ]]></description>
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          <title>JMU student treated for bacterial meninigitis</title>
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James Madison University officials say a student who developed bacterial meningitis appears to be an isolated case. 
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          <title>Chesapeake to close 80&#45;year&#45;old bridge</title>
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Chesapeake officials plan to close an aging bridge that needs repairs. 
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          <title>Judge orders prison for 2 cockfighters</title>
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Two Shenandoah Valley men were sentenced to prison terms for cockfighting by a federal judge who rejected a defendant&#8217;s claim that the blood sport is &#8220;a cultural thing.&#8221;            ]]></description>
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          <title>Kaine orders 570 layoffs, other cuts</title>
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Governor Tim Kaine has ordered 570 layoffs, cut college funding by at least 5 percent and postponed state employee raises from next month until next summer. 
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          <title>Historical society wants to buy battle flag</title>
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The Elkton Historical Society is asking the public to help buy a Civil War battle flag that once belonged to a Rockingham County infantry unit. 
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          <title>SLIDESHOW: Former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore at The News Virginian</title>
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Former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore at The News Virginian           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fairfax County woman gives birth in courthouse</title>
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Fairfax County officials say a woman has given birth in the hallway of the county courthouse.           ]]></description>
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          <title>3 Virginia cities cited for encouraging play</title>
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Three Virginia cities have been recognized for emphasizing the importance of play.
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          <title>Montpelier celebrates restoration</title>
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Montpelier is celebrating the completion of a $24 million restoration that&#8217;s returned the plantation home to the era of James Madison&#8217;s presidency and retirement years.
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          <title>Building collapses in Chesterfield; supervisor says all workers accounted for</title>
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A building collapsed today in southern Chesterfield County, but new reports from building construction supervisors indicate that all workers have been accounted for.

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          <title>Prince William chief announces arrest totals</title>
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Prince William County Police Chief Charlie Deane says the monthly total of suspected illegal immigrants arrested in the county has nearly tripled since May. The number of those later released without charges also rose sharply. 
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          <title>Kaine declares state of emergency</title>
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Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine today declared a state of emergency, directing all Virginia state agencies to take "all reasonable actions" to protect the state from potential problems posed by Tropical Storm Hanna.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia selects Homeland Security projects to fund</title>
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Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine announced today that Virginia has allocated $23.4 million in state Homeland Security Grant Program funds to localities across the commonwealth.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Columbia Gas to lower fall rates</title>
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Customers of Columbia Gas of Virginia will get a break on their monthly bills in the fall.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Most Va. schools meet &#8216;No Child&#8217; benchmarks</title>
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Seventy-four percent of Virginia&#8217;s public schools met annual performance benchmarks in reading and mathematics under the No Child Left Behind law. 
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          <title>Virginia SAT scores rise in reading, writing</title>
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Virginia public school students increased SAT scores by two points over 2007 on writing, and recorded one-point increases in both critical reading and mathematics, according to the Virginia Department of Education.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Live video: Obama&#8217;s Martinsville stop</title>
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Why Lynchburg? 

That was the question on many people&#8217;s minds Tuesday as the city prepared for Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign stop this afternoon at E.C. Glass High School. 
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          <title>Report: Va. 16th overall in highway performance</title>
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An annual report shows that Virginia&#8217;s state-funded highways have improved, but still have some key problems.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Study: Jamestown 400th a boon for Va.</title>
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Jamestown&#8217;s 400th anniversary commemoration had a large economic impact in Virginia.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore dies</title>
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Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore died Tuesday of complications from injuries suffered in a June accident at his farm outside Charlottesville.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kaine announces spending reductions</title>
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Gov. Tim Kaine has announced how he is fulfilling a legislative mandate to slash spending by $35 million over the next two years. 

Spending reductions in the fiscal year that ended June 30 bring the total savings to $49 million. The state&#8217;s two-year budget totals about $77 billion. 
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          <title>Kaine appoints Virginia judges</title>
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The judge who presided over the trial of sniper mastermind John Muhammad has been appointed to the Virginia Supreme Court. 
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          <title>Highway fatalities up in W.Va., Va.</title>
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Bucking a nationwide trend, traffic deaths in West Virginia and Virginia rose last year. 
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          <title>4 states unite to fight drug traffic on I&#45;81</title>
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Police, prosecutors and lawmakers in four states are targeting illegal drugs and gangs along Interstate 81. 

Officials from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia met Thursday in Winchester to discuss strategies as part of the 21st Quad-State Legislative Conference. 
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Two Pembroke teenagers who police say were inspired by the movie "The Dark Knight" are accused of leaving playing cards containing threatening messages at several stores.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Warner to keynote Democratic Convention</title>
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U.S. Senate candidate and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner will offer the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention on the night of Aug. 26.
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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and state law enforcement will lauch a statewide crackdown on drunk driving on Virginia's rural roadways Aug. 21.
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          <title>Virginia students&#8217; ACT scores improve</title>
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Virginia&#8217;s average ACT college-entrance exam score is higher than the national average this year. 
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In-state undergraduates at the state&#8217;s public colleges will pay 7.3 percent more for tuition and fees this school year over last year.
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          <title>Dozens of fish wash up at South Fork reservoir</title>
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Dozens of fish have turned up dead at the bottom of the dam at the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir, according to the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority.            ]]></description>
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          <title>House seeks to end DC gun measures</title>
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House leaders have agreed to allow a vote next month on a bill that would end local handgun control in the District of Columbia.
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          <title>Tornado confirmed in Elkton</title>
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The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado hit Elkton over the weekend, leaving a trail of damage 70 yards wide. 
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          <title>Historic weather vane to be auctioned</title>
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A weather vane that has sat atop a Winchester volunteer fire company station for at least 137 years is going to be auctioned early next year.            ]]></description>
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The Virginia Department of Health is investigating an outbreak of E. coli at a popular Boy Scout camp in the Rockbridge County community of Goshen. 
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A study ranks Virginia&#8217;s highway system 16th in the nation in overall performance and cost effectiveness.            ]]></description>
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Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said Thursday that the week of Aug.4-8 will be campus and school safety week in Virginia.
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The high gas prices and economic uncertainty are being blamed for this summer&#8217;s low visitor numbers at Jamestown and other Colonial attractions. 
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The Richmond City Council has paved the way for an 8,700-seat football stadium at the University of Richmond. 
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Virginians are banking on the state&#8217;s back-to-school tax holiday this weekend to save money on supplies needed for the school year &#8212; a welcome gift amid high gas and food prices. 
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Environmentalists are challenging the state&#8217;s approval of a $1.8 billion coal-fired power plant in southeast Virginia. 
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An investigation has confirmed that part of a burial ground for slaves and other blacks lies beneath a Virginia Commonwealth University parking lot.            ]]></description>
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A multimillion-dollar cleanup of a Superfund landfill at the edge of a national forest in Virginia is in its final stage.            ]]></description>
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Virginia motorists are getting some relief from high gas prices. 
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Virginia Tech has partly reversed a decision to keep secret records about the April 2007 campus shootings that left 33 people dead. 
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The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles said the latest information on auto crashes is now available.
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Virginia U.S. Sen. Jim Webb will make appearances tonight on both Comedy Central's The Colbert Report and PBS's Charlie Rose Show.
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Former Virginia Sen. Joseph Gartlan, who championed environmental and social causes while representing Fairfax County for 28 years, has died following a brief illness. He was 82. 

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It&#8217;s not televised, it&#8217;s in the middle of holiday season, but Saturday&#8217;s debate with Mark Warner is an important opportunity for Jim Gilmore in Virginia&#8217;s U.S. Senate race. 
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          <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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The man who successfully challenged D.C.&#8217;s handgun ban has returned to police headquarters to register a weapon. 
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Chesapeake officials are asking the Environmental Protection Agency for help after well tests found elevated levels of contaminants at a golf course sculpted from fly ash. 
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Staggered by a slumping economy, Gov. Tim Kaine&#8217;s administration on Thursday ordered state agencies to curb hiring, travel and purchases, and warned that budget cuts are on the way. 
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The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that overturned Washington&#8217;s strict 32-year-old handgun ban was among the first to arrive as the city started registering firearms.           ]]></description>
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A Commonwealth Catholic Charities&#8217; staffer who signed a consent form allowing a 16-year-old Guatemalan foster child to receive an abortion this past winter will not face prosecution. 
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The Bon Secours hospitals in Richmond and Hampton Roads are integrating their operations, joining together to form one of the largest health systems in Virginia. 
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Chesapeake Bay crabber Paul Kellam has advice for the teenage boys who help tend his traps every summer: You better have a backup plan. 
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Unless the federal courts or Governor Timothy Kaine step in, a Virginia man who killed his 79-year-old neighbor is scheduled to be executed Thursday.           ]]></description>
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A woman jogging near the waterline in Virginia Beach was struck and killed by lightning.           ]]></description>
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At least six people were killed in crashes over the holiday weekend in Virginia.           ]]></description>
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The Navy says a sailor who was found dead aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt at Naval Station Norfolk died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 
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Motorists traveling Virginia&#8217;s major highways will encounter fewer construction delays over the Fourth of July weekend. 
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First it was the tomatoes. Now it&#8217;s the beef. 

Fourth of July picnic tables are getting a careful look as familiar hamburgers are feared to be among the tainted ingredients in separate food safety scares.            ]]></description>
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It took about a half-hour this morning for Monticello officials to distribute 1,000 tickets for its annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony on Friday, but it took at least two or more hours of waiting for the folks who wanted them. 

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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is stepping in to ask Congress to make a decision regarding federal recognition of six Virginia tribes. 
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People hoping to see President Bush waited for hours for a chance to get free tickets for Monticello&#8217;s annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. 
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Virginia&#8217;s unemployment rate went up one-half of a percentage point to 3.8 percent in May. 
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The Navy is investigating the gunshot death of a sailor aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt at Naval Station Norfolk. 
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Demographers at the University of Virginia say that one in 10 Virginians is foreign-born.            ]]></description>
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Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, will appear at Mrs. Rowe's in Staunton on Monday at 3 p.m.           ]]></description>
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The final draft of VDOT's six-year improvement plan for roads is now available for public review on the VDOT Web site.           ]]></description>
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Mysterious fish kills that have plagued the Shenandoah River for several years are down this spring, but there have been significant deaths on the upper James River.           ]]></description>
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Two women were shot and killed Friday at a soda bottling plant 25 miles north of Charlotte, police said. 
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The U.S. Marshals Service says 626 fugitives wanted on more than 900 charges in the Western District of Virginia have been arrested in a weeklong roundup. 
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A legislative study says millions of dollars allocated to fight substance abuse in Virginia are not being spent, and agencies are not held accountable for the money that is used to fight drug and alcohol abuse. 
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A Virginia congressman said Wednesday the FBI has found that four of his government computers have been hacked by sources working out of China. 
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Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski says the decision by Orbital Sciences to base a rocket program at Wallops Island means the lower Eastern Shore site could eventually become a cargo hub for the International Space Station. 
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The Navy Warfare Development Command is breaking ground this week for its new headquarters at Naval Station Norfolk.            ]]></description>
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans is asking that a life-size statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis be placed at Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond. 
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Firefighters worked Friday to contain a massive wildfire at a federal wildlife refuge in remote eastern North Carolina that was spreading smoke hundreds of miles into Virginia.
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A 26-year-old man is charged with child abuse after authorities say he threw his 10-month-old daughter at a police officer in a desperate attempt to escape arrest for an earlier incident.           ]]></description>
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The Virginia Supreme Court says a former all-women's college did not break a contract with female students when it decided to enroll men.           ]]></description>
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Starchild Abraham Cherrix had plenty of reason to celebrate his 18th birthday Friday: He says his latest blood results show no signs of the Hodgkin's disease he's battled since 2005.           ]]></description>
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Claudia van Koba was born with both a gift and a curse. She has spent the rest of her life finding ways for the two to coexist.           ]]></description>
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The prognosis for a 1-month old eaglet being treated for a growth on its beak isn&#8217;t good.            ]]></description>
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Some 175 workers are on the job as a Swedish furniture maker officially opens its 930,000-square-foot manufacturing center in economically depressed Southside Virginia. 
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A federal appeals court says Virginia&#8217;s law banning a type of late-term abortion is still unconstitutional, even though a similar federal ban has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. 
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Another black bear sighting has been reported in the Richmond area.           ]]></description>
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Smith Mountain Lake's striped bass is on the comeback, after a parasite once threatened its existence.           ]]></description>
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Confederate fortunes in the Shenandoah Valley waxed and waned during 1864.           ]]></description>
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Four people face felony charges of voter fraud in connection with a southwest Virginia municipal election on Tuesday. 
Wise County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Ronald Elkins said Thursday that three people who do not live in St. Paul registered to vote in the town election, using the address of a resident. The town&#8217;s mayor and two council members are up for re-election in a hotly contested race. 
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Horns blaring, a caravan of truck drivers arrived in Washington on Monday to protest high gasoline prices. 
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For a man who planned to climb Mount Everest but stepped into a diplomatic nightmare instead, Midlothian native Brant Holland sounded remarkably composed. 
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A planned visit by an online weapons dealer who sold one of two guns used in the Virginia Tech mass shootings stirred controversy on campus today.
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About 150 Virginia National Guard members who have been serving in Iraq will return to their armory in Charlottesville late tonight.
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A 61-year-old Big Stone Gap man has died after a roof collapse at a Wise County mine, marking Virginia&#8217;s first coal-mining death in more than three years. 
David Sizemore was airlifted Tuesday to a Kingsport, Tennessee, hospital, where he was pronounced dead a few hours after the accident at Osaka Mine Corporation&#8217;s Mine No. 1. 
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