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A 12-minute pursuit by Waynesboro police circled repeatedly through the Tree Streets neighborhood and ended with a crash on Ivy Street late Monday night, leaving two cruisers immobilized, two cruisers damaged, two officers with minor injuries and a Waynesboro man in jail.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bankruptcy court OKs sale of Baugher</title>
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A federal bankruptcy judge approved the sale Monday of longtime Waynesboro car dealership Baugher Chevrolet-Buick to Obaugh Chevrolet-Buick, owned by Staunton auto dealer Charlie Obaugh.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pastor and son made &#8216;no wrong turns&#8217; en route to rescuing kids</title>
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The voices of two children in the George Washington National Forest sounded like birds to Scott Reese.           ]]></description>
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          <title>SLIDESHOW: Missing children found alive</title>
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Missing children found alive           ]]></description>
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After spending a night lost in the wetlands, 2 missing children reunited with parents           ]]></description>
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          <title>Missing children found alive</title>
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Search teams this afternoon found two missing children who were part of a group of six hiking in the Augusta Springs Wetlands area of the George Washington National Forest on Sunday. 

Authorities have released the names and descriptions of two missing children who became separated from a party of six hiking in the Augusta Springs Wetlands area of the George Washington National Forest on Sunday.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Children still missing after overnight search</title>
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A team of more than 100 law enforcement officials and volunteers continue to search through the Augusta Springs Wetlands this morning for two children who became separated from a party of six hiking a trail in the George Washington National Forest on Sunday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia voter registration deadline today for November elections</title>
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Today is the deadline for registering in Virginia if you want to vote in next month&#8217;s presidential and other elections, and Waynesboro Registrar Mary Alice Downs expects another busy day.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Behind the history</title>
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Ken Stanley wraps up &#8216;History in the Valley&#8217; columns           ]]></description>
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          <title>Apple Days are here again</title>
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Artists, craftworkers, apple growers display the fruits of their labors at annual event           ]]></description>
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          <title>Search for 2 missing children continues</title>
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Search teams looked late Sunday in the Augusta Springs Wetlands for two children who became separated from a party of six hiking a trail in the George Washington National Forest           ]]></description>
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          <title>Taking steps on sidewalks</title>
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School grant could go to improve neighborhood walkways           ]]></description>
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          <title>SLIDESHOW: 27th Annual British Car Show</title>
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27th Annual British Car Show           ]]></description>
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          <title>A plan for downtown</title>
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Having swept clean low-hanging fruit, the Waynesboro City Council and its new majority might now reach higher for a prize that so far has eluded.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Americans don&#8217;t have the write stuff?</title>
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Normally, I pay little attention to who wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Salvation Army calls for donations</title>
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As the country prepares for the presidential election, and with political fundraising having reached an all-time high this year, The Salvation Army has issued an urgent call to residents of Waynesboro and East Augusta County not to forget to respond generously to the needs of the less fortunate this holiday season.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Government uses tax code to silence churches</title>
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The First Amendment says: &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Push to register Va. felons to vote could aid Obama</title>
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Undaunted by the heat, James Bailey spent his late-summer afternoons walking Virginia&#8217;s bleakest neighborhoods on the hunt for ex-cons &#8212; each a potential voter who might cast the decisive ballot in this hotly contested state.            ]]></description>
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          <title>British invasion</title>
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Annual car show brings enthusiasts to Ridgeview Park in Waynesboro           ]]></description>
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          <title>Oktober ties</title>
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Beers, brats, polkas and waltzes characterize Oktoberfest in Staunton           ]]></description>
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          <title>City at a crossroads</title>
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As Waynesboro grows, some intersections causing headaches           ]]></description>
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          <title>To err is human</title>
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I may feel a lot worse about the country than I did a short time ago, but my self-esteem has received a real boost.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Three Up; Three Down</title>
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THIS WEEK&#8217;S OPINION MARKETPLACE           ]]></description>
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          <title>After 5 days, search for missing man continues</title>
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Day five of the search for Earl F. Funk in Shenandoah National Park concluded Friday night with no new clues, but anticipation for a larger weekend search team.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Gilmore, Warner square off in first televised debate</title>
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Democrat Mark R. Warner on Friday night embraced the federal rescue of financial services as &#8220;imperfect&#8221; but necessary, while his Republican foe for the U.S. Senate, Jim Gilmore, opposed it as a &#8220;travesty.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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An e-mail sent by the Virginia Education Association to its members encouraging voter registration of students and support for Democratic nominee Barack Obama was swiftly deleted from Waynesboro teacher e-mail accounts after it was received earlier this week, officials said Friday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Firefighters head to Texas for Hurricane Ike cleanup</title>
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A group of five area firefighters packed suitcases alongside construction tools and chain saws Friday night and departed on an 18-hour drive to Beaumont, Texas, where they will work with community members and local public safety crews to clean and rebuild the town in the wake of Hurricane Ike           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bailout bill passes Congress; Bush signs</title>
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They held their noses and voted &#8220;yes.&#8221;            ]]></description>
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          <title>Politico Blog: Palin calms the GOP waters</title>
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Sarah Palin proved much more effective in Thursday&#8217;s vice presidential debate than she has in recent television interviews with anchors. 

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          <title>House should again say no</title>
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Wafting from the vicinity of the Beltway is the acrid stench of fresh pork, which in the business of news is known as dogs biting men, which is to say not surprising. But there is a fouler air about the 450-page pile of legislation purportedly written to rescue an American economy in flames and hurtling earthward. It assaults the senses, olfactory and intellectual.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sixth District candidates to debate next week in Harrisonburg</title>
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Sixth District congressional candidates will hold the first joint debate of this year&#8217;s campaign Thursday at the Holiday Inn in Harrisonburg.
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          <title>Efforts double in national park</title>
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The crew searching for a missing Staunton man in Shenandoah National Park nearly doubled Thursday but turned up no new clues.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Board to set priorities for elem. schools</title>
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VERONA &#8212;  Augusta County School Board members say while their top capital priority is to move school administrative offices from Fishersville to Verona, a close second is charting the future of several county elementary schools.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bailout hopes rise as more &#8216;no&#8217; votes switch</title>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; Desperate to avoid another market-crushing defeat, House leaders won key converts Thursday to the $700 billion financial industry bailout on the eve of a make-or-break second vote.            ]]></description>
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Watch a live stream of the Vice Presidential debates. This stream will only work with Internet Explorer.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Joe McCain to speak in Staunton</title>
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Joe McCain, brother Republican presidential nominee John McCain, will speak at the monthly Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County Republican breakfast on Saturday, Oct. 11 at Kathy's Restaurant in Staunton.
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          <title>FORUM: Who&#8217;s winning tonight&#8217;s VP debate?</title>
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FORUM: Who's winning tonight's VP debate?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Herd on the Trail blogs from tonight&#8217;s VP debate</title>
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Media General's Billy House will be live-blogging the vice-presidential debate on MG Washington's Herd on the Trail blog. Watch it on TV and follow along here. The 90-minute debate starts at 9 p.m. tonight.
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          <title>6th District candidates to debate</title>
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The candidates for the 6th District congressional seat will engage in a 90-minute debate on Oct. 9 in Harrisonburg.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Search resumed in national park</title>
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The search for a missing Staunton man resumed this morning by 9 a.m. in Shenandoah National Park.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The good, the bad and the ugly</title>
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As a joke, about 30 years ago, I said to co-workers that Social Security should be paid to everyone when they turn 18 and stop when they reached 30. I added that everyone could then find jobs and work until they died.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bailout plan is simply irresponsible</title>
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In consideration of the current bailout proposals, I urge you to consider it as I and the majority of informed, educated, voting people do: Threatening the American public with economic tumult and turmoil lest a bailout be approved boils down to nothing more than blatant extortion.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Absence of fire douses McCain</title>
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In &#8220;The Abolition of Man,&#8221; C.S. Lewis admonishes against severing the visceral from the cerebral, which produces the phenomenon he calls &#8220;Men without Chests.&#8221; &#8220;We castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful,&#8221; Lewis laments. So what to call one affected by the atrophy of both heart and mind? Perhaps the Republican ticket, the deficiencies of which may be on display, again, in tonight&#8217;s vice presidential debate.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:47:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>History bill could aid Wilson Library</title>
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A Congressional bill authorizing funding for presidential libraries has been passed by both the U.S. Senate and House, the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum of Staunton said Wednesday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:43:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Stabbing nets man 23 years</title>
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A judge sentenced a Waynesboro man to 23 years in prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend and a computer repairman.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>School Board to discuss, in detail, possible closings</title>
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Ladd Elementary School in Waynesboro has a particular hold on Chrissy Fauber.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bailout passes Senate, House foes soften</title>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republicans opposition softened.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:21:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Most Valley banks staying healthy</title>
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Despite the plunge in financial markets, area businesses are buoyed by Shenandoah Valley banks, which are on more solid footing than national institutions such as Wachovia, experts said Wednesday.            ]]></description>
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          <title>FORUM: Your thoughts on the bailout</title>
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What are your thoughts on the economic bailout? Let&#8217;s hear &#8216;em.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Shenandoah search to continue Thursday</title>
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Search of the Cedar Mountain area of Shenandoah National Park for a missing man were to continue until dark and resume Thursday with additional resources, according to an afternoon press release from the park           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Search underway for missing Staunton man in Shenandoah National Park</title>
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More than 40 people are searching Shenandoah National Park for a Staunton man last seen Monday afternoon.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>No leads after armed robbery</title>
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Police reported no new leads Wednesday in relation to an armed robbery at the Texaco station at 501 Rife Road around 9:33 p.m. Tuesday night.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:16:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Ohio fugitive arrested in Stuarts Draft</title>
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The Augusta County Sheriff's Office assisted the U.S. Marshal's Capital Area Regional Task Force Tuesday to arrest an Ohio man wanted in connection with an attack on his ex-wife.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:31:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>New city manager named</title>
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A lifelong Waynesboro resident will now have the job of running the city where he grew up.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:53:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Texas congressman says Obama is best hope for veterans</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Texas Congressman Chet Edwards is convinced Barack Obama will do all he can to help veterans if the Illinois senator is elected president.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:51:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte said Tuesday that if he were speaker of the U.S. House he would have had members busy working after Monday&#8217;s failed $700 billion government bailout vote rather than taking a couple of days off.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Who&#8217;s ready for 4 more years of Bush politics?</title>
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Loyal citizens of the United States, are you ready for four more years of Bush failures under John McCain?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:43:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Obama has only 143 days of experience</title>
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Barack Obama has 143 working days of experience in the U.S. Senate.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Farmers cautious amid volatility</title>
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Farmers in the Shenandoah Valley &#8212; which includes Virginia&#8217;s two most productive agricultural counties, Rockingham and Augusta &#8212; reacted to Wall Street rumblings with a wait-and-see attitude Tuesday, calling financial uncertainty a routine test in their industry           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Put the blame where it belongs</title>
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I question the piece by Republican Del. Bob Marshall, (&#8220;Congress shouldn&#8217;t reward gamblers,&#8221; Sept. 29) who lays the financial crisis at the feet of President Bush and Wall Street lobbyists.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/editorials/article/hamp_deal_good_for_city/28609/</link>
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Mike Hamp fulfilled expectation Tuesday, ascending to the city manager&#8217;s job left vacant by Doug Walker.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Waynesboro City Council took the interim tag off of Mike Hamp, making him the city manager effective Oct. 1.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>More license plates stolen</title>
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Two license plates were stolen early Monday morning from two vans parked at Salvation Army in Staunton.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Waynesboro City Council will go into closed session to discuss the appointment of a new city manager at a special called meeting today.  
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          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:14:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Amid economic woes, fewer race from pump</title>
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Reports to police of gas pump drive-offs have plummeted this year throughout Augusta County despite increased fuel prices and an economy on the brink of collapse.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Virginia delegation splits on bill</title>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; Five Virginia House Republicans and one Democrat Monday voted against the $700 billion financial bailout measure.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Record Dow dip follows &#8216;no&#8217; vote</title>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; In a vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around the world, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation&#8217;s financial system, leaving both parties&#8217; lawmakers and the Bush administration scrambling to pick up the pieces.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Valley&#8217;s economy braced for crisis</title>
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The Shenandoah Valley is not experiencing the turbulence of the national economy, and local experts say discussions are alive about  recruiting industry and expanding area industries.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bailout exposes partisan excess</title>
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Demonstrating either a skeptic&#8217;s unbelief or an Epicurean&#8217;s stoicism in response to the Treasury Department&#8217;s prophecy of an economic earthquake, Democrats sought to feed their friends taxpayer billions from the federal bailout bill amid a clash of ideologies.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Obama&#8217;s veterans plans to get focus in Staunton</title>
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Texas Rep. Chet Edwards will visit Staunton this afternoon as part of a state tour to discuss challenges facing Virginia veterans, and to reveal Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama&#8217;s plans for treatment of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:57:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Days before jury trial, man arrested for drug sales</title>
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Waynesboro police arrested Marvin Winston Harris Thursday for selling amphetamine and cocaine, less than a week from the 25-year-old Waynesboro man&#8217;s circuit court jury trial on three felony charges from an April 15 incident.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:49:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Waynesboro man stunned during arrest</title>
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A Waynesboro man was hit with a stun gun during an arrest Saturday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>House defeats $700B financial markets bailout</title>
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The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry. 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Waynesboro City Council calls special meeting on city manager appointment</title>
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Waynesboro Interim City Manager Mike Hamp and the City Council have called a special meeting tomorrow to hold a closed session to discuss the appointment of a city manager.           ]]></description>
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Campaign signs were stolen Saturday.           ]]></description>
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The Stuarts Draft EMT Rescue Squad earned first place for the second year in a row in a scenario-based competition.           ]]></description>
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Interior parts of a 2000 Nissan were broken Saturday in Staunton.           ]]></description>
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Attackers repeatedly struck a Waynesboro man with fists and a beer bottle around 2 a.m. Saturday morning.           ]]></description>
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Firefighters from Augusta County will travel to Galveston, Texas, this week, to assist recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ike.           ]]></description>
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Consider this: President Bush, in the manner of a dictator, took us into war with Iraq without the approval of Congress.           ]]></description>
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If you received a call from a stranger who demanded that you pay his bar bill and bookie or he would ruin your family&#8217;s finances, you wouldn&#8217;t reach for your wallet.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Son of famed evangelist draws more than 1,000 to Tinkling Spring Presbyterian           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Fishersville man finds fitness, purpose on the road           ]]></description>
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Food pantries see increasing need for supplies in current economy           ]]></description>
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The proposal to bail out U.S. financial markets to the tune of up to $700 billion creates a lot of potential short-term winners, as well as some losers.           ]]></description>
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I was waiting in line at the truck stop along with every other knucklehead swept up in the panic of the Great Southeastern Gas Shortage of Early Fall 2008 when my mind wandered, as it often does, and I flashed forward 30 or 40 years.            ]]></description>
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I am trying to keep my head screwed on straight, but the news is messing with my mind. It reminds me of what it must feel like to live in the path of a hurricane a day or two before the storm actually hits.           ]]></description>
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THIS WEEK&#8217;S OPINION MARKETPLACE           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Nervously eyeing the markets&#8217; next trading session, congressional Democrats and Republican senators pushed for an agreement Saturday on a multibillion-dollar bailout for the financial sector.           ]]></description>
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Va.&#8217;s top lawyer helps beautify Staunton during Community Day           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:34:01 EDT</pubDate>
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Former budget analyst struggles to compete for U.S. Senate seat           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Waynesboro woman, boyfriend accused of kidnapping her teen brother           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Visions of Jimmy Stewart and mobs at the building-and-loan door swim in our heads, pleasanter still than those flashing on television screens, of President Bush and Democrats Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd joining hands to save America.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:52:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As government plots bailout course, financial fears spread throughout US           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:49:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The American Fibers and Yarns Company manufacturing plant in Afton will close Oct. 17, putting 40 people out of work, a company consultant said Friday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Across the Shenandoah Valley Friday night, Republicans and Democrats gathered in homes and headquarters to watch the first presidential debate of 2008.           ]]></description>
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McCain, Obama argue over federal spending, foreign policy           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:43:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Son of famed evangelist to preach at Tinkling Spring Presbyterian           ]]></description>
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