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          <title>Plane crash victims&#8217; family reacts</title>
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The family of Florida businessman Daniel Joseph Dorsch and his wife, Cyndie Dimalanta Dorsch, offered a statement today on the deaths of the two in Sunday&#8217;s plane crash on
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          <title>Mount Sidney rest area among 18 to close July 21</title>
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The Mount Sidney rest areas along Interstate 81 are among the 18 that will close July 21, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Shooting unveils very different sides of McNair</title>
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Steve McNair earned the respect of his fellow NFL players for shaking off defenders and injuries. That same blue-collar playing style won the love of fans amazed at how the quarterback kept showing up for work &#8212; and winning.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Alaska observers say Palin had gone fishin&#8217; on job</title>
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As surprised fans and critics of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin traded guesses behind her decision to resign more than a year before her term ends, the former vice presidential candidate offered few hints at her political future, except to say she&#8217;d gone fishing.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Jackson family seeks delay in naming will executor</title>
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Michael Jackson&#8217;s family wants a judge to delay a hearing Monday to designate two men listed in the pop superstar&#8217;s will as temporary administrators of his estate so that they can look deeper into his affairs, a person close to the family said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Business mogul, wife killed in plane crash</title>
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Single-engine aircraft crashes in Steeles Tavern, killing businessman, wife.

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>Text avalanche shows I care. LOL</title>
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Up until our 13-year-old daughter went to the beach with extended family and left my wife and me behind to fret about shark attacks, sunburn and teenage boys, I had, over the course of my life, sent no more than a dozen text messages.            ]]></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>Beware myths&#8217; hidden venom</title>
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Step carefully along the trail, where myths slither and sometimes bite.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:01:18 EDT</pubDate>
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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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          <title>Living simply not a new idea</title>
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I read yet another one of those editorials about the joys of simple living.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Patriotic display</title>
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Large garrison flag to fly today outside municipal building downtown           ]]></description>
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          <title>Three Up, Three Down</title>
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THE FOURTH OF JULY EDITION           ]]></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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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>Iran&#8217;s reformists call Islamic regime illegitimate</title>
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Iran&#8217;s former president has joined ranks with the country&#8217;s embattled reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, and accused the Iranian government of failing its people in the recent election and condemning the subsequent crackdown on protesters.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Key Senate Democrats trim cost of health care bill</title>
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Determined to advance President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Major military operation under way in Afghanistan</title>
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Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama&#8217;s strategy to stabilize the country.           ]]></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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          <title>Open up, Citizen Kaine</title>
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It&#8217;s good to be Timothy M. Kaine these days principally because he&#8217;s not Mark Sanford. Virginia&#8217;s governor, like his counterpart in South Carolina, gets around, but Kaine, in senses platonic and political. So while South Carolina proceeds with inquiries to determine whether Sanford, the skunk, spent taxpayer cash to pursue l&#8217;amour in Argentina, Virginia Republicans have halted nosing into the possible use of state tax money to aid Kaine&#8217;s cross-country politicking as Democratic National Committee chairman. C&#8217;est la vie.           ]]></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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While having lunch several years ago, I told several co-workers that Michael Jackson would one day be considered the equal of Wolfgang Armadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach. One of them was astonished that I&#8217;d make the statement. After Jackson&#8217;s sudden passing last week and taking into account not only America&#8217;s but the world&#8217;s reaction to it, I stand by my previous prediction.           ]]></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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U.S. stock futures are pointing to a higher opening Wednesday as investors await data on the manufacturing and housing industries.           ]]></description>
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A bruised teenage girl clung to the wreckage of a Yemeni plane for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her floating in the Indian Ocean, a French official said Wednesday.
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Heavy construction equipment and workers passed through the wrought-iron gates of Neverland Ranch, fueling speculation that it could soon be hosting a funeral or a permanent memorial to Michael Jackson.           ]]></description>
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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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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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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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Expert says recession will last into 2010           ]]></description>
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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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Rift arises among Waynesboro&#8217;s conservative bloc           ]]></description>
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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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As time goes about healing wounds, the City Council&#8217;s so-called Three Amigos brandish pleasant public faces. This is a product of necessity: Majorities require their constituent parts to remain whole. But whatever the fellas might say when notebooks are open and tapes are rolling, this is plainly not the same trio who assumed power, and apparently other things, a year ago this morning.           ]]></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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Republican Norm Coleman conceded to Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota&#8217;s contested Senate race on Tuesday, ending a nearly eight-month recount and court fight over an election decided by only a few hundred votes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:14:26 EDT</pubDate>
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Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad&#8217;s background track.           ]]></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>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:08:18 EDT</pubDate>
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Foes of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor celebrated the high court&#8217;s reversal of her decision in a reverse discrimination case.           ]]></description>
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Federal authorities are pressing a probe of 10 associates of Bernard Madoff despite a sentence that means the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history will spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned.           ]]></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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President Barack Obama promised transparency but has delivered murk, stirred by votes cast in a blur.           ]]></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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Homeless teenagers at a central Colorado shelter are feeling the effect of the government&#8217;s economic stimulus package. It&#8217;s the feeling of a dentist&#8217;s drill.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he&#8217;s not quitting &#8212; even though he considered it &#8212; despite intense scrutiny and criticism over his admitted affair with a woman from Argentina.           ]]></description>
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Iran began recounting some of the votes cast in its disputed presidential election Monday in an apparent attempt to placate opposition protesters, and the government dismissed the idea of downgrading relations with Britain despite accusing that country of stirring up unrest.           ]]></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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As the crow flies &#8212; or more appropriately as the snake slithers &#8212; the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina is roughly 200 miles from my house.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:48 EDT</pubDate>
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This letter is in regard to Nelson Graves&#8217; column (&#8220;Three cheers for government,&#8221; June 18).

Mr. Graves seems to think that with a Democrat leading the government the ever-falling Social Security fund doesn&#8217;t still owe $2 trillion to our trust fund in worthless IOU&#8217;s out in Parkersburg, W.Va., all because our government hasn&#8217;t taken the annual surplus of billions of dollars each year to put in the general fund. It has happened through many decades with both parties at fault.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:42 EDT</pubDate>
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Whatever compromise it might engender, politics is more artful than art, evidenced by the ritual whir of campaign spin and a resulting diffusion of rhetorical miasma thick enough to slice. This explains the scenario that has Republican gubernatorial contender Bob McDonnell and Democratic foe R. Creigh Deeds drifting toward that gooey locus known as the center, chanting om and drawing near one another, philosophically now and maybe at the polls later, like last time.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:34 EDT</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m afraid that Gene Lyons lost me in his June 22 column (&#8220;Sickly talk about fixing health care&#8221;) supporting President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to establish a government-run health insurance plan, the purpose of which, to quote Obama, is to &#8220;keep the insurance industry honest.&#8221;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:17 EDT</pubDate>
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Frontier Culture project attracting worldwide attention           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:12 EDT</pubDate>
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When I was younger and had the time and inclination, I would often go backpacking with friends. We tried to live by a simple rule: leave behind a better place than you found. It is a simple rule and I do my best to live up to it, to leave no burdens behind. Always.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:09 EDT</pubDate>
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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>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:05 EDT</pubDate>
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Albemarle not &#8216;actively pursuing&#8217; recoup of $19,551           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:01 EDT</pubDate>
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A 13-year-old boy was recently suspended from his crumbling, inner-city middle school in Michigan.&nbsp; His family had immigrated to the United States because, in his words, &#8220;My parents wanted a better life for us than fighting. There is no government in Somalia, no army or police to keep the peace. Different tribes and groups of people were fighting and killing each other to gain power.&#8221;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:54 EDT</pubDate>
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This week&#8217;s opinion marketplace           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:45 EDT</pubDate>
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Elephants evicted from landfill site on city concerns           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:45 EDT</pubDate>
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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>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:41 EDT</pubDate>
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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>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:14 EDT</pubDate>
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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>
          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:59 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.           ]]></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>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:42:31 EDT</pubDate>
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits he used taxpayer money to see his mistress in Argentina and plans to repay the cash.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:24:58 EDT</pubDate>
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Michigan has snatched back a few of its fast-disappearing auto jobs, winning a high-stakes competition with two other states to build General Motors Corp.&#8216;s next-generation subcompact car.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:23:45 EDT</pubDate>
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A senior Iranian cleric called Friday for harsh punishment for leaders of the country&#8217;s post-election protests, even as a G8 foreign ministers meeting in Italy urged Iran&#8217;s rulers to seek a peaceful resolution to the tense two-week confrontation over the disputed presidential vote.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:22:39 EDT</pubDate>
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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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