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A sex-toy study at Duke University has raised some eyebrows in the campus religious community.           ]]></description>
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          <title>3 Va travel venues win AAA&#8217;s Five Diamond Award</title>
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Two hotels and a restaurant in Virginia have received AAA&#8217;s top rating.           ]]></description>
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Fayetteville police are investigating why there was an hour-long delay in sending officers to the home where a real estate developer killed his family and then himself, despite a breathless emergency call that captured a gunshot.           ]]></description>
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A Crozet man will spend more than seven years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than $5 million from more than 30 investors.           ]]></description>
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An Army spokeswoman says the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings had been scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan to counsel soldiers suffering from combat stress.           ]]></description>
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Authorities say Fort Hood shooting Nidal Malik Hasan remains in a coma but is expected to live.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Flu&#45;like illness declining in Virginia.; deaths up</title>
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Flulike illness in the state appeared to decline last week, but deaths caused by the H1N1 flu continue to rise.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Family calls suspects actions deplorable</title>
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The family of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says &#8220;the actions of their cousin are despicable and deplorable.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.&#8216;s bid to carve out a &#8220;free speech&#8221; marketing niche for innovative products received a setback yesterday.            ]]></description>
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Hours before William Maxwell slaughtered his family and killed himself, relatives and friends worried about the real estate developer gathered at his home to see if they could lift the normally happy dad from his funk.           ]]></description>
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Hundreds of volunteers jammed into the Cavalier Inn on Thursday night to help organizers prepare for a community search for clues in last month&#8217;s disappearance of a young woman in Charlottesville.
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Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party&#8217;s gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections.           ]]></description>
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The mass shootings at Fort Hood in Texas is not prompting any immediate security changes at most military installations in Virginia.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Veterans get to visit Va. sites for free</title>
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Colonial Williamsburg, Mount Vernon and Montpelier are among a group of Virginia destinations offering free admission to former and active-duty service members to honor them on Veterans Day.           ]]></description>
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Nearly 16 million people can&#8217;t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended.           ]]></description>
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that tobacco companies hoping to block new restrictions on their marketing have little chance of succeeding.           ]]></description>
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Flulike illness in the state appeared to decline last week, but deaths caused by the H1N1 flu continue to rise.           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s largest electric utility agreed to a proposed settlement Thursday to return nearly $400 million to customers and reduce monthly electric bills.           ]]></description>
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Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli is looking to predecessors from both parties for guidance on running the state&#8217;s law office, as well as enlisting the lawyer who beat Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell in court on a transportation fix that was ruled unconstitutional.           ]]></description>
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Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.           ]]></description>
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Congress took further steps to right the staggering economy by expanding a popular tax credit for homebuyers and extending unemployment checks for the growing legions of people running out of benefits with few job prospects.           ]]></description>
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RICHMOND &#8212; Gov. Timothy Kaine will return to teaching at the University of Richmond after his four-year term ends in January.           ]]></description>
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CONOVER&#8212;A growing furniture manufacturer hopes to more than double its work force during the next five years by adding at least 50 employees.           ]]></description>
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The family of Morgan D. Harrington is seeking volunteers to redouble the efforts to locate the Virginia Tech student who disappeared Oct. 17 after leaving the John Paul Jones Arena.           ]]></description>
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A North Carolina insurance agent already accused of embezzling more than $168,000 from a 90-year-old woman and using the money for himself is facing additional indictments.           ]]></description>
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In his first day as governor-elect, Bob McDonnell yesterday announced his transition committee leaders, including Tom Farrell, chairman and CEO of the state&#8217;s largest utility, Dominion Resources.           ]]></description>
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Two weapons&#8212;a ball-peen hammer and a wood-splitting maul&#8212;were used to bludgeon four people found dead inside a Longwood University professor&#8217;s home in September, a source close to the investigation confirmed Tuesday.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Attorney general: sniper showed no mental illness</title>
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The Virginia Attorney General&#8217;s Office said yesterday that there is no evidence John Allen Muhammad&#8217;s lawyers had reason to think he was mentally ill when he asked to represent himself at his 2003 trial.            ]]></description>
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Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell said Wednesday he plans to transform his campaign proposals into law, relying on a mandate from the Republican sweep that he led.           ]]></description>
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At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Dan and Gil Harrington formally announced three days of searches to be held in Charlottesville this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the search for their missing daughter Morgan.           ]]></description>
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An ebullient Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele asserted today that GOP victories in governors&#8217; races in Virginia and New Jersey demonstrate &#8220;a transcendent party&#8221; on the move again.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, the National Democratic Committee chairman, and House Republican Whip Eric I. Cantor of Henrico County squared off on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show this morning over the impact of yesterday&#8217;s elections that saw Republicans capture governorships here and in New Jersey.           ]]></description>
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RICHMOND (AP) &#8212; Voters cast their ballots Tuesday for a new Virginia governor in a closely watched race that has focused on promises of jobs and critiques of President Barack Obama&#8217;s policies a year after he won the state.           ]]></description>
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A young California man was indicted today on six counts of capital murder for the slayings of four people found dead in a Farmville home.           ]]></description>
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North Carolina lottery players should soon get to take a chance on two more multimillion-dollar jackpots a week without having to drive to Georgia or Virginia.           ]]></description>
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A jury has granted a $9 million judgment in favor of the owners of a Campbell County manufactured home park who sued the county claiming the landfill next door polluted their drinking water and made their land and business unsellable.            ]]></description>
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Elected just a year ago, the president has spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to ensure that Democrats win governor&#8217;s races in Virginia and New Jersey and pick up a GOP-held congressional seat in upstate New York.           ]]></description>
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The National D-Day Memorial Foundation in Bedford is eliminating nearly half its staff as it approaches a winter expected to produce &#8220;very modest revenue,&#8220; according to the foundation&#8217;s president.            ]]></description>
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A soured love affair may have led an ex-convict to gun down four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series &#8220;The Andy Griffith Show,&#8220; police said Monday.           ]]></description>
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Democrat R. Creigh Deeds turned to the man he hopes to succeed as Virginia governor to lash the Republican front-runner in a final rally before Tuesday&#8217;s election.
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Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and Republican Bob McDonnell both are making election-eve appearances in the Richmond area.           ]]></description>
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Dan and Gil Harrington are using the donations to print and distribute fliers and other material with a photo and description of 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington.            ]]></description>
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For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don&#8217;t come to work, you don&#8217;t get paid.           ]]></description>
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Democrat R. Creigh Deeds took his campaign to Hampton Roads yesterday, while Republican Bob McDonnell flew around the state in late efforts to drive up turnout in a contest that has taken on national significance.           ]]></description>
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North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr has a 37 percent approval rating among adults in the state as he prepares his campaign for re-election, according to a poll released Friday.           ]]></description>
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Federal funding meant to stimulate the economy has helped Virginia agencies create or retain more than 5,900 jobs.           ]]></description>
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Some North Carolina counties hit hard by unemployment will share $1.4 million in federal stimulus money to prevent hurting families from becoming homeless.           ]]></description>
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About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama&#8217;s economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president&#8217;s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.           ]]></description>
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Dominion Virginia Power and its parent company, Dominion Resources Inc., have asked the State Corporation Commission for permission to sell up to $1.5 billion of the power company&#8217;s common stock to Dominion Resources.           ]]></description>
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Virginia is eliminating its statewide pharmacy that purchases discounted drugs for the mentally ill and distributes them locally.           ]]></description>
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Authorities arrested a man they say tried to kill himself by setting fire to a house in Richmond&#8217;s East End, only to be rescued by firefighters from the burning building.           ]]></description>
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The flag-draped casket that President Barack Obama saluted early yesterday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware contained the remains of a former student at Virginia Military Institute.           ]]></description>
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She can&#8217;t explain the light that burned brightly without electricity or the overturned salt dishes on the dining room table, so Anne Holton puts it this way:           ]]></description>
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The health care overhaul bill produced by House Democrats would impose an array of new taxes, fees and government mandates on major players in the health industry, including insurers, doctors and drugs and medical devices makers.           ]]></description>
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Racial barriers in education continue to exist more than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate-but-equal schools for blacks and whites and more than 30 years after forced desegregation, according to panelists at a University of Virginia symposium.           ]]></description>
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Andy Griffith now has some company in Mount Airy.           ]]></description>
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A North Carolina-based paratrooper charged after he helped subdue a fellow soldier who later died has agreed to a plea bargain that could give him 30 days in jail and dock his pay. 
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A motorized La-Z-Boy used by a man who pleaded guilty to driving it drunk is going up for auction. But police said interested bidders need to keep it off the streets. The chair, powered by a lawnmower engine, comes equipped with a stereo, cup holders and lights.           ]]></description>
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A jailer lost his job after an inmate hanged himself last weekend.           ]]></description>
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A possible early sign that a fragile economic recovery may be under way comes from MeadWestvaco Corp.&#8217;s report of a slight rise in the amount of bleached paperboard it sold in late summer.           ]]></description>
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RALEIGH - For nearly five hours Wednesday, former Gov. Mike Easley answered questions about private flights, home repairs, car payments and bogus invoices - all of the minutia that form the basis.           ]]></description>
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says new health care legislation will make affordable, quality health care available to nearly all Americans and represents a historic step.           ]]></description>
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One professor called it spiteful.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Beverly Perdue signed an emergency declaration Wednesday to help with cleanup from a rock slide which has blocked traffic on Interstate 40 near the Tennessee-North Carolina border.           ]]></description>
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An eastern route for a U.S. 29 bypass of Charlottesville has been taken off a consultant&#8217;s map, but some of the state&#8217;s top decision-makers said this week a bypass still is needed.            ]]></description>
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A day after President Barack Obama rallied Democrats in Norfolk for gubernatorial nominee R. Creigh Deeds, national Republican headliners hopscotched Virginia for front-runner Bob McDonnell.           ]]></description>
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A Moneta woman accused of faking terminal breast cancer is facing one charge and more may be pending.            ]]></description>
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Fueled by government stimulus, the economy grew last quarter for the first time in more than a year. The question now is, can the recovery last?
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A decline in demand is not keeping R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. from raising the list price on its cigarette brands by 6 cents or 8 cents a pack for wholesale customers.            ]]></description>
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ABINGDON,&#8211; Stuck in a rural Kentucky shelter, Homer was sick, bald and blind. By all accounts, he didn&#8217;t stand much of a chance.           ]]></description>
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State transportation officials say clearing Interstate 40 where a rock slide blocked the highway in both directions near the North Carolina-Tennessee line could take longer than first thought.           ]]></description>
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Following the disappearance of a student at a Metallica concert, University of Virginia police say they&#8217;re stepping up patrols on Halloween.
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Advisers who once helped former Gov. Mike Easley on fundraising told state election officials Tuesday there was no scheme to funnel money the campaign raised for the state Democratic Party back to Easley&#8217;s committee to avoid individual caps on giving.           ]]></description>
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A Duke University police officer has been arrested and charged with raping an Alabama woman.           ]]></description>
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Hanesbrands is shutting down operations at a North Carolina hosiery plant that employs 320 people.           ]]></description>
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A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student faces a felony charge after a prank involving a wooden rifle prop, Chesterfield County police said.           ]]></description>
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If executed as scheduled Nov. 10, condemned Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection, not electrocution.           ]]></description>
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A revised proposal to limit jury anonymity to cases where it is warranted has been posted on the high court&#8217;s Web site.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama urged Virginians Tuesday to elect a Democrat as governor next week, but party officials braced for a defeat that could take some sheen off Obama&#8217;s first year in office.           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s higher-education agency plans to ask the General Assembly to appropriate nearly $59 million more for college financial aid over the next two years.           ]]></description>
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A Charlottesville company and researchers at the University of Virginia are designing a new turbine that they anticipate will be capable of harnessing wind power across Virginia.           ]]></description>
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Lorillard Inc., the nation&#8217;s third-largest cigarette maker, saw less of a decline in cigarettes sold in the third quarter than its competitors as its value brands posted big gains.           ]]></description>
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A 53-year-old North Carolina man is facing 14 years in prison for his part in an scheme which led investors to hand over more than $11 million to his company.           ]]></description>
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As late as spring, many Democrats felt good about peeling away even more Republican seats in the Virginia House of Delegates and dared speak of recapturing a clear majority for the first time in a dozen years.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama is giving a jolt to the futuristic &#8220;smart&#8221; electric grid, hoping to bring America&#8217;s power transmission system into the digital age more quickly.           ]]></description>
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Authorities estimate they will need up to three months to clear debris from a rock slide that has closed Interstate 40 in both directions at the North Carolina-Tennessee state line.
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Republican Bob McDonnell widened his lead to 11 percentage points in a Washington Post poll and had twice the cash on hand for the final two weeks of the Virginia governor&#8217;s race.           ]]></description>
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Former Gov. Mike Easley&#8217;s political ally testified Monday that scores of campaign-related flights went unreported and he turned in false air travel invoices to get reimbursed by Easley&#8217;s campaign for repairs he arranged for the governor&#8217;s home.           ]]></description>
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Two months after two Virginia Tech students were killed in the Jefferson National Forest, the father of one of them is a renewing a plea for information in the case.           ]]></description>
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Results from a new economic survey may ease concerns about rising unemployment and its effect on consumer spending, as forecasters say more employers appear willing to hire in the coming months.           ]]></description>
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PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year.           ]]></description>
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Capmark Financial Group, one of the nation&#8217;s largest commercial real estate lenders, has filed for bankruptcy protection amid mounting bad debt.
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What&#8217;s bigger than a picnic basket and even better than one in the eyes of black bears that live in Yosemite National Park?           ]]></description>
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A Web site set up to spread information about a Virginia Tech student missing since a Metallica concert in Charlottesville says the heavy-metal band has contributed $50,000 to the reward effort.
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