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          <title>Virginia&#8217;s job losses in 2009 were worse than estimated</title>
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You were right: The job market was worse last year than the experts said, according to new Virginia Employment Commission data.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:38:05 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: Perriello will vote for health care bill if controversial parts removed</title>
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Saying the health care bill will save money for families and is supported by hospitals, Rep. Tom Perriello said Friday that he&#8217;s likely to vote &#8216;yes&#8217; on Sunday when the roll is called in the House of Representatives.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va. nonprofit recognized for conservation efforts</title>
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A Virginia nonprofit is one of four organizations in the country being recognized for its energy conservation efforts.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Class of 2010 at U.Va. to hear Casteen</title>
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Retiring University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III will deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2010.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va Beach Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan</title>
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The Navy says a SEAL from Virginia Beach has been killed in a battle with militants in Afghanistan.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Body pulled from James River</title>
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Lynchburg Fire Department crews pulled a body from the James River shortly before 3 p.m. today. A fisherman who found the body said it appeared to be female and wore women&#8217;s clothing.            ]]></description>
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          <title>N.C. colleges hear about illegal immigrants policy</title>
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North Carolina&#8217;s community college board gave its final approval to allowing illegal immigrants to enroll next year, potentially dropping a contentious issue in the lap of state lawmakers in an election year.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Obama rallies support for final health care votes</title>
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President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend&#8217;s health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem all but banned: &#8220;If this vote fails.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Environmental groups challenge Va.&#8216;s EPA lawsui</title>
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Two environmental groups are challenging Virginia&#8217;s legal action to block federal regulation of greenhouse gases.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:43:44 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>VT students say threats are a pain to deal with</title>
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There was increased security on the Virginia Tech campus on Thursday after threats were made through e-mails and on YouTube.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:57:42 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Justice Dept. in talks with Soering attorneys, German government over transfer</title>
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The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed that it is talking with attorneys for convicted murderer Jens Soering and the nation of Germany, says Sen. Steve Newman, R-Lynchburg.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Double&#45;dip recession unlikely, economist tells Richmond group</title>
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The numbers this summer likely will show economic growth is slowing. The pundits likely will start muttering about a double-dip recession.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Next winter&#8217;s forecast</title>
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ROANOKE - Winter is winding down and the forecast long range outlooks have done a decent job forecast what was expected.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:18:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Dogs kill rabid raccoon in Henrico County</title>
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Two dogs are in quarantine in Henrico County after they killed a rabid raccoon.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man pleads guilty to role in 1990 Va. slayings</title>
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A prosecution witness has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 1990 robbery and slayings of two workers at a Food Lion in Chesterfield County.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:56:11 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Sheriff on Beacher Hackney: &#8220;I still think he&#8217;s alive&#8221;</title>
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 police say Beacher Hackney shot two people inside The Homestead kitchen and was caught in surveillance video leaving the crime scene.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:52:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Good weather may accelerate I&#45;40 work</title>
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Crews trying to stabilize a mountainside to prevent future rockslides along a closed portion of Interstate 40 in North Carolina say the weather is finally right for getting a lot of work done.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:49:09 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Budget cuts mean fewer N.C. teachers</title>
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Budget cuts are responsible for most of the loss of almost 4,000 teaching jobs in North Carolina, and school officials fear the losses will be worse next year when federal stimulus money dries up.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:47:27 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Robot vs. robot in Va. competition</title>
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Students from Virginia and four other states are putting their analytical and engineering skills to the test at a two-day robotics competition in Richmond.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:19:55 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Jeff&#8217;s Notes &#45; In politics, the victor gets the appointments</title>
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RICHMOND &#8212;Columnist Jeff Schapiro says Gov. Bob McDonnell is busy finding jobs in his administration for Republican operatives and conservative activists.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:08:42 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Richmond man gets longest sentence ever for dogfighting in Virginia</title>
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A Richmond judge today imposed a prison term for dogfighting that is more than twice as long as anything previously handed down in Virginia for the crime.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:44:31 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Cuccinelli threatens challenge on health care bill</title>
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 Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says Washington risks a legal battle with the states should Congressional Democrats ram through health-care reform with an obscure parliamentary maneuver.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Online postings warn of another Va. Tech attack</title>
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Virginia Tech is urging calm as e-mails and Internet postings originating in Italy threaten another attack on campus.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:49:49 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Augusta County company gets surprise shipment: 1,840 pounds of pot</title>
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Workers at a company that manufactures blades and cutting tools were surprised to receive a shipment of 1,840 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $2 million.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Eight Virginia rest areas closed by budget crunch reopen</title>
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DINWIDDIE &nbsp; &#8212; Virginia is reopening rest areas less than a year after a budget shortfall prompted their closing.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Slain student&#8217;s parents talk on 5&#45;month anniversary of daughter&#8217;s death</title>
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On Wednesday, Dan and Gil Harrington met with reporters in front of one of the last places their daughter was seen alive, University of Virginia&#8217;s John Paul Jones Arena, to send a clear message: &#8220;There&#8217;s still evil afoot in this town.&#8221;
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Paul Warner Powell&#8217;s first encounter with the law was for the destruction of property at age 12, the start of eight years of arrests that led him to death row.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Police: Man pointed laser, flashlight at helicopter</title>
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Fairfax County police say they have charged a man with pointing a laser and flashlight at a police helicopter.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:59:15 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>60 Seconds with: Keith Muth on financial planning for retirement</title>
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 KEITH MUTH: Metro Business asked certified financial planner Keith Muth, chief investment officer at Virginia Asset Management, a financial-services firm in Chesterfield County, about the steps necessary to determine if someone can retire:           ]]></description>
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          <title>Study: Reducing farm pollution would help bay, economy</title>
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Governments can aid the Chesapeake Bay and the economy by spending more to help farmers pollute less, a University of Virginia study says.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Gay&#45;rights group urges college leaders to push for change in state law</title>
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Keeping pressure on state leaders over what they see as Virginia&#8217;s weak anti-bias protections, gay-rights group Equality Virginia is calling on college and university leadership to join their push for a change in state law.           ]]></description>
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Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Wal&#45;Mart probing racist store announcement</title>
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials are reviewing security tapes to try to determine who used a southern New Jersey store&#8217;s public-address system to tell &#8220;all black people&#8221; to leave.           ]]></description>
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The number of Virginians getting state unemployment benefits fell from a year ago even as the number out of work rose by one-fifth, a Richmond Times-Dispatch review of state data found.           ]]></description>
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Honda Motor Co. says it is recalling about 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks because of problems with the brake pedals.           ]]></description>
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As the latest employment figures, released late last week, suggest, the recession is continuing to put a damper on hiring. In this buyer&#8217;s market for professional and skilled labor, job seekers must have reasonable expectations, according to a strategic management expert at the University of Alabama Birmingham.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Bob McDonnell plans to donate more than $100,000 from his inaugural committee to charity after raising more than the $1.5 million goal.           ]]></description>
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 Gov. Bob McDonnell is claiming an 80 percent success rate in his first legislative session. With the budget crisis resolved he&#8217;ll now turn to other substantial challenges facing his administration.
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Watching Richmond politics unfold in person or on the General Assembly&#8217;s Web site is complicated, but one man has made getting informed simpler.           ]]></description>
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You know you&#8217;re not having a good week when Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; lampoons Virginia&#8217;s anti-discrimination policy that excludes sexual orientation.           ]]></description>
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For the first time in more than 15 years, Charlotte County farmer Kevin Trent is not hiring farmhands from other countries.           ]]></description>
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A top official with the United Nations wildlife agency says the world has &#8220;failed miserably&#8221; in protecting tigers in the wild.
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Virginia is taking away more than $620 million that would have been paid toward state employee and teacher pensions, but the state is leaving an IOU.           ]]></description>
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RICHMOND &#8212; The General Assembly on Sunday overwhelmingly passed a new two-year budget that makes unprecedented cuts to state services and programs but includes no tax increase.            ]]></description>
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Despite substantial agreement on major issues, legislative negotiations toward a new bare-bones state budget hit a snag late Saturday over a variety of lesser issues.            ]]></description>
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The General Assembly appears headed for overtime tomorrow (Sunday) because of the inability of the House of Delegates and Senate to agree on a budget.            ]]></description>
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Gov. Bob McDonnell says he will break with tradition and announce his decisions on clemency for condemned inmates days before they are scheduled to be executed.           ]]></description>
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A former aide to past presidential candidate John Edwards has avoided jail again in a dispute over a tape that allegedly shows Edwards and his lover in a sexual encounter.           ]]></description>
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Authorities say they have identified a woman&#8217;s body found behind a mobile home where a man charged in a killing in a nearby county once lived.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:43:32 EDT</pubDate>
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Gov. Bob McDonnell declined Friday to stop next week&#8217;s execution of a man who killed his teen friend in 1999 and then bragged about it to prosecutors once he thought he couldn&#8217;t face the death penalty.           ]]></description>
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Auto manufactures will have a chance this weekend to woo potential buyers possibly gun-shy after recent recall announcements by several large carmakers.           ]]></description>
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A Virginia man has claimed a $200 million Mega Millions jackpot, nearly five months after winning the prize.           ]]></description>
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 North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood has paid in full the property taxes that were past due on her Raleigh home.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:53 EDT</pubDate>
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Media General News Service and wire reports           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:05:23 EDT</pubDate>
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Police shot and killed a bull after the animal escaped from a livestock business and rampaged through Harrisonburg, charging at bystanders and vehicles.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:13:10 EDT</pubDate>
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A former aide to past presidential candidate John Edwards is returning to court just three days after a North Carolina judge nearly sent him to jail for contempt.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:52:11 EDT</pubDate>
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The Virginia Department of Emergency Management says it is holding the annual statewide tornado drill next week.           ]]></description>
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State and local governments may be straining to balance their budgets, but Wall Street likes their IOUs just fine.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:19:09 EDT</pubDate>
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VERONA - MeadWestvaco&#8217;s continued investment in Augusta County was rewarded Wednesday by county supervisors with a planned reimbursement to the company for county real estate taxes over a five-year period.
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Foreclosure activity in Virginia appears to be falling, but that could be related to the harsh weather in February.           ]]></description>
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RICHMOND&#8212;The firestorm over anti-discrimination protections for gay state employees is blotting out the pro-jobs message of Virginia&#8217;s new governor, Bob McDonnell.            ]]></description>
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ROANOKE - If you&#8217;re expecting a state tax refund, don&#8217;t expect much if you owe money to the government.           ]]></description>
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Virginia Tech police are investigating the resurfacing of threats of another mass shooting at the university in YouTube postings.           ]]></description>
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State and local governments may be straining to balance their budgets, but Wall Street likes their IOUs just fine.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:55:52 EDT</pubDate>
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More than three months after Virginia&#8217;s new restrictions on smoking in restaurants went into effect, about 88 percent of restaurants in the state have gone smoke-free, the state Health Department says.            ]]></description>
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Children&#8217;s advocates in North Carolina are this year seeking a spanking ban on students with disabilities after losing political tussles over corporal punishment in public schools the past few years.           ]]></description>
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Opponents plan to protest the choice of a Northern Virginia imam, who they say advocates violence, to deliver the opening prayer to the House of Delegates today.            ]]></description>
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The House of Delegates will not ask local governments to pay back money for teacher retirement plans after all.            ]]></description>
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Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general&#8217;s advice to public colleges.           ]]></description>
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North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue appointed a former superior court judge to serve as acting district attorney for Caswell and Person counties, according to a news release.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law Wednesday offshore drilling legislation intended to realize his goal of making Virginia the East Coast&#8217;s energy superpower.           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s unemployment rate rose to 6.9 percent in January from 6.8 percent in December, the Virginia Employment Commission reported this morning.
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Sheriffs rallied in Richmond this morning to save jail and courtroom security jobs.           ]]></description>
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More Virginians lost jobs in January as the state unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.9 percent from 6.8 percent the month before, the Virginia Employment Commission reported yesterday.            ]]></description>
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A bill that is pending in the General Assembly seeks to fix &#8220;an honest mistake&#8221; that led to Amherst County School Board members being paid more than state law allows, said Brian Ratliff, schools superintendent.            ]]></description>
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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says Virginia is among 35 states settling a false advertising suit against an Arizona company that promised to protect consumers from identity theft.            ]]></description>
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A former aide to John Edwards narrowly escaped jail time Tuesday over his handling of a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter.           ]]></description>
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Much of the debate was about money Tuesday when the Senate approved Gov. Bob McDonnell&#8217;s proposals for charter schools and two other education measures that Sen. Steve Newman, R-Lynchburg, guided to passage.            ]]></description>
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Employees of Thomasville Furniture in Appomattox should learn soon whether they will go back to work or lose their jobs.            ]]></description>
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Americans have an obligation to help poor children around the world, according to two-thirds of those who responded to a survey sponsored by ChildFund International.            ]]></description>
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Gay and lesbian faculty, students and staff at the University of Virginia say they are outraged that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has advised UVa and the state&#8217;s other public colleges and universities to rescind policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.            ]]></description>
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Senate budget negotiators trimmed their proposed $51 million increase in court filing fees Tuesday by nearly one-fourth in an incremental step aimed at jump-starting state budget talks.           ]]></description>
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ROANOKE - Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) has been in office just about two months now and we haven&#8217;t heard much out of him.           ]]></description>
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The magazine&#8217;s annual list of America&#8217;s Richest Counties is based on median income and U.S. Census Bureau data from 2008. Virginia had the strongest showing of any state. Most of the localities are in northern Virginia.           ]]></description>
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COEBURN, Va. &#8211; Back when Walt Crickmer was running Clinchfield Coal Co., he didn&#8217;t think much about gob piles.           ]]></description>
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The House of Delegates today passed Gov. Bob McDonnell&#8217;s proposal to create a framework for approving virtual school programs for public school students and gave preliminary approval to another gubernatorial initiative to create college partnership lab schools.
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A key Senate committee has passed bills allowing the death penalty for those who kill fire marshals and auxiliary police officers.            ]]></description>
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A Rustburg Middle School teacher died after a car crash Sunday evening when a car struck her sport-utility vehicle head on, police said.
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Virginia&#8217;s governor needs to change the law that he and the attorney general say keeps the state from banning discrimination against gays and lesbians, a gay-rights group says.           ]]></description>
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Jim Nolan and Jeff Schapiro discuss the push for a state budget, and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s opinion that state colleges can&#8217;t prohibit discrimination against gays           ]]></description>
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Some people seem to think this winter&#8217;s snows prove that global warming is a bunch of hot air. They are wrong, the experts say.           ]]></description>
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A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with raping a woman and carving the word ``Mine&#8217;&#8216; on her stomach. 
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Thousands of state and local government employees face layoffs because of the severe budget cuts. Just how many jobs will be lost should become clearer by Saturday when the General Assembly is scheduled to adopt a budget for the 2010-2012 biennium.           ]]></description>
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So far, participants in the Live Healthy Danville Pittsylvania County initiative lost more than a ton and a half in weight and logged enough miles to walk around the earth more than twice.
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Danville residents gather to enjoy the classic art of storytelling. Storytelling isn&#8217;t just part of past oral tradition. It&#8217;s what makes us human, storytellers say.           ]]></description>
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Questions sparked by HBO documentary shown at DRMC were answered by a Danville neurologist           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s attorney general is advising the state&#8217;s public colleges to rescind policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.           ]]></description>
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A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived outside the military headquarters armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said Friday. Internet postings linked to the lone shooting suspect reflect long-held anti-government anger.           ]]></description>
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North Carolina&#8217;s attorney general on Friday ordered an independent review of the state&#8217;s crime lab following revelations about practices that led to a groundbreaking exoneration of a man wrongly accused of murder.           ]]></description>
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Motel 6 has long embraced its no-frills reputation, promising little more than a clean room and homespun staff to &#8220;leave the light on for you.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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