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          <title>Information sought on mistreated dogs in Danville</title>
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The Danville Area Humane Society is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information about two recent cases of mistreated dogs.           ]]></description>
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          <title>M.T. Sorrell awarded tax credits for its donors</title>
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M.T. Sorrell, a non-profit residential home in Blairs for mentally disabled adults, has been award $5,000 in state tax credits from the Neighborhood Assistance Program administered by the Virginia Department of Social Services.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Free tax preparation offered in Dan River Region</title>
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The Building Economic Success Together coalition will be offering free tax preparation services for Danville, Pittsylvania County and Caswell County, N.C., residents who earn less than $49,000 a year.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Defendant admits to killing in Pittsylvania County capital murder trial</title>
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During his testimony, Dennis Lee Daniel talked about his affair with Courtney Marie Servais, disrespect and his killing of Servais.Daniel is facing charges of capital murder, abduction, robbery and carjacking in the December kidnapping and death of Servais. Servais went missing Dec. 19 and was found Dec. 24.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Burglars steal box holding baby&#8217;s ashes</title>
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An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A strong, local voice falls silent</title>
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WILA is no more, sold to new owners that will debut an entirely different kind of radio station here New Year&#8217;s Day.

&#8220;Danville, I love you. Thank you for this opportunity to live out my dream,&#8221; WILA co-owner Lawrence Toller said. 

&#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed it immensely. It&#8217;s been wonderful. It&#8217;s been gratifying. But I&#8217;m signing off.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Animals are a major responsibility</title>
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I found your dog. I noticed her along Route 41 as I drove home one morning. She was such a pretty old Golden Retriever, and I imagine she brought you years of joy and happiness during her time with you. She seemed very sweet, though she did snap at me several times as I tried to pick her up for you. I wanted to make sure you got her back, as she was such a beautiful girl.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Miley Cyrus tour bus overturns on I&#45;85; driver killed</title>
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Cyrus was not aboard the bus, which was one of four traveling in a caravan to the pop star&#8217;s next concert in Greensboro, N.C.
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          <title>GOP candidate commits to &#8216;never sway&#8217; from core conservative beliefs</title>
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In what he described as an &#8220;unconventional&#8221; campaign announcement, one Republican candidate running for the 5th District GOP nomination pledged to 10 goals Thursday in Danville.
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          <title>City Council to vote Dec. 1 on redistributing extra business&#45;program money</title>
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Funds formerly used for $10,000 downtown starter business loans and the fa&#231;ade program will see their availability expanded if a proposal before Danville City Council passes Dec. 1.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Livestock mysteriously slain; farmers seek answers</title>
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Something is killing livestock in Pittsylvania County. On one farm near Renan, nine calves were found dead last week &#8212; bringing the number of cattle killed there in the past year to 16. No one is sure who or what delivered them to their deaths.            ]]></description>
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          <title>System to pay utility bill, taxes could be up and running this week</title>
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Danville is setting up a new online utility and tax payment system that may be up and running as soon as Friday.
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          <title>Local jobs fell 2.7 percent in past year</title>
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The Danville metropolitan area lost 1,100 jobs from September 2008 through September 2009, according to a Virginia Employment Commis-sion news release.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Accused killer testifies in capital murder case</title>
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Dennis Lee Daniel testified Friday that he killed Courtney Marie Servais on Dec. 19. He said that he snapped after she mentioned his son&#8217;s name. Courtney had an affair with Daniel&#8217;s son.            ]]></description>
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Help us out, and let your opinions be known. Take our online readership survey.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man charged with raping, killing N.C. 5&#45;year&#45;old to appear in court</title>
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A man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was expected in court Friday, a day after authorities revealed what they believed happened to her in her final days.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:59:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Become a Fan of GoDanRiver.com on Facebook</title>
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Become a Fan of GoDanRiver.com on Facebook           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:03:36 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Virginia tax collections reflect economy</title>
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Virginians are taking home less pay, spending less in stores and still are getting hit on their investments, new state tax-collection statistics show.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:32:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>You are here</title>
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Local students learned about geographic literacy - and their hometown.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:46:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>One lane of U.S. 58 near South Boston closed for repairs</title>
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Maintenance repairs are planned for the roadway slope.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: $3.5 billion shortfall means local governments will feel the pinch</title>
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Local governments aren&#8217;t likely to escape the pain when the General Assembly attempts to eliminate an estimated $3.5 billion hole in the next two-year budget.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ex&#45;high school coach guilty of indecent liberties</title>
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J.R. Tucker High School&#8217;s former football coach pleaded guilty this week to three counts of taking indecent liberties with two teenage students.

In a brief hearing in Henrico County Circuit Court, Danville native William Macgregor &#8220;Mac&#8221; Leighton, 31, acknowledged his guilt in months-long relationships with students 15 and 17.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable?</title>
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Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Execution offers look behind the scenes</title>
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JARRATT &#8212; Shortly before Larry &#8220;Bill&#8221; Elliott was put to death for killing a Woodbridge couple in 2001, he wrote that the justice system &#8220;failed me.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pittsylvania County sheriff&#8217;s lieutenant testifies in capital murder case</title>
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A lieutenant for the Pittsylvania County Sheriff&#8217;s Office testified Thursday in the capital murder case of Dennis Lee Daniel.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Study highlights tax&#45;burden disparity</title>
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Low- and middle-income families pay a disproportionate share of taxes in Virginia, a study by a tax policy institute concluded Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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Virginia and its localities should stop building more prisons and jails because a decade-long building program has led to undercrowding, a state budget analyst said Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kaine cites budget concerns in his final months</title>
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RICHMOND &#8212;Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine&#8217;s term expires in less than two months, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s leaving behind his concerns about the future of the commonwealth.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Smoke&#45;free restaurant law less than two weeks away</title>
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Starting Dec. 1, smoking will be prohibited in restaurants, with some exceptions. Smokers and proprietors who violate the law will face civil penalties of $25.           ]]></description>
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          <title>FAA glitch causes widespread delays</title>
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A problem with the FAA system that collects airlines&#8217; flight plans caused widespread flight cancellations and delays nationwide Thursday. It was the second time in 15 months that a glitch in the flight plan system caused delays.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Feds check out local storm damage</title>
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Though continuous rain delivered high waters and flooding to the area last week, Danville and Pittsylvania County escaped major destruction.

There was, however, minor damage at Danville&#8217;s wastewater treatment plant and the courthouse in Chatham.            ]]></description>
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A 15-year-old shot an air rifle at police officers dispatched to a disturbance call Wednesday, police said.           ]]></description>
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The five correctional officers charged in October with animal cruelty for fondling a K-9 dog and videotaping the incidents will not be prosecuted.
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About 400 high school juniors from Danville and Pittsylvania County took a break from their classes Wednesday to glimpse potential professional futures during a career fair at the Institute of Advanced Learning &amp; Research.            ]]></description>
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Setting up a historic year-end debate, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid revealed his long-awaited version of legislation to reshape the nation&#8217;s health-care system last night, a measure designed to extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:59:25 EST</pubDate>
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Virginia transportation officials say they will have to slice $851.5 million out of Virginia&#8217;s six-year transportation plan, which has already been hit with $3.7 billion in cuts since the spring of 2008.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:35:24 EST</pubDate>
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City Attorney W. Clarke Whitfield said his investigation of Jerry Gwaltney found the former city manager violated City Code and policy &#8212; but to Whitfield&#8217;s knowledge, the city isn&#8217;t pursuing any charges against Gwaltney.

Whitfield found that Gwaltney authorized $465,000 in extra funds for the Coleman MarketPlace project without City Council approval. Whitfield was responding via e-mail to a Danville Register &amp; Bee question about pursuing charges against Gwaltney.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:40 EST</pubDate>
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Tremon Antonio Wimbush faces life in prison when he is sentenced in a few weeks for the July 11 murder of Latoya Hubbard.

Wimbush murdered Hubbard in a drive-by shooting on Ross Street, but his real target was Hubbard&#8217;s brother, George Henry.

&#8220;He got two people he wasn&#8217;t even shooting at,&#8221; Judge David Melesco said. &#8220;It was a dastardly act with no regard for human life.&#8221;

The first and most obvious lesson of this shooting is that violence solves nothing. Hubbard&#8217;s life was swept away. A man wounded in the attack, Frederick Douglas Ferguson, has to date required three surgeries to repair his damaged leg.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Is there a double standard on race?</title>
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We need to be concerned and keep ourselves up to date on what is happening in America. We are losing our rights and freedoms, bit by bit, each day. Political correctness and attacks on Christian beliefs and freedom of speech are bringing this nation down.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:49:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Fight cancer</title>
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The Fashion Show Benefit for Breast Cancer was a wonderful success because of our community of caring and concerned citizens &#8212; 99 people participated in this year&#8217;s event and many individual donors also contributed. More than $12,000 was raised for our local breast cancer patients in need of assistance. All funds are held at the Danville Cancer Association to provide local patients with the assistance.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:47:49 EST</pubDate>
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American National Bankshares Inc., the parent company of American National Bank, has announced a fourth-quarter dividend of 23 cents per share.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:46:51 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Allen tax plan backed by Richmond Crusade</title>
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Possibly as remarkable as the political pairing in support of a tax-code change to renovate old schools is the range of good it would do, former Gov. and U.S. Sen. George Allen told the Richmond Crusade for Voters last night.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:45:54 EST</pubDate>
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Virginia is doing better at reducing premature births, but the state still gets a grade of D because too many babies are born before full term, according to the March of Dimes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:42:20 EST</pubDate>
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With little hesitation, the Albemarle County Planning Commission sent a formal recommendation to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that called for wind turbines to be allowed in the county.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:54 EST</pubDate>
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President Barack Obama says he&#8217;s worried that spending too much money to help revive the economy could undermine a fragile U.S. recovery and throw the economy into a double-dip recession.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:25:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Jobs returning to former Knight&#45;Celotex plant</title>
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Illinois company forms new subsidiary, creates 88 jobs in Danville           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Testimony begins in capital murder case</title>
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Dennis Lee Daniel is on trial for the 2008 killing of Courtney Servais. His attorney doesn&#8217;t dispute that a murder occurred but maintains there was no robbery.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:42:34 EST</pubDate>
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Construction of new homes unexpectedly plunged last month, as builders waited to see whether lawmakers would extend a tax credit for homebuyers.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:23:44 EST</pubDate>
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Police say the drowning of a Halifax County toddler in a pond near his home appears to be an accident.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:22:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Maute wants to know if megapark is protected</title>
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An opponent of uranium mining and milling has asked the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors to prohibit uranium mining within a 25-mile radius of the proposed Berry Hill Road industrial megapark site. 

Karen Maute, who lives in Pittsylvania County, proposed a resolution to the board and wants Danville City Council and the Danville Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facilities Authority to sign the resolution along with the county.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:13 EST</pubDate>
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The bad economy will result in another $250 million to $300 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30, House of Delegates money committees were told Tuesday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:18:03 EST</pubDate>
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Danville City Council held a second public hearing during its regular meeting Tuesday on a proposed ordinance that will sharply curtail the time animals can be chained in yards.

Several rows in City Council chambers were filled with supporters of the proposal, which will make it a Class 4 misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $250 if pets are left chained for more than three hours in any 24-hour period.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:32 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: Hunter charged in fatal shooting of Ferrum student</title>
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A deer hunter faces manslaughter and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a Ferrum College student and the wounding of another.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:50:59 EST</pubDate>
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JARRATT&#8212;Death-row inmate Larry Bill Elliott was executed last night for the 2001 murder of Dana Thrall of Prince William County.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:42:40 EST</pubDate>
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When I heard on the radio recently that Rep. Tom Perriello had changed his position on the health care bill from &#8220;no&#8221; to &#8220;undecided&#8221; because the newest bill does not increase the deficit, that was enough to get me out of bed and begin writing the second letter to an editor I have written in the past 51 years. (The first letter followed the federal government forcing the Citadel to admit women.) I was only angry then; the attack was only against tradition.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:50 EST</pubDate>
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Former City Manager Jerry Gwaltney violated City Code, policies and procedures when he authorized an extra $465,000 for Coleman MarketPlace without City Council approval, City Attorney W. Clarke Whitfield reported to City Council during its Tuesday night work session.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:23 EST</pubDate>
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The American political system was built to handle dissent and disagreement. It&#8217;s more than strong enough to survive the controversy over the proposed health care reform bills now before Congress.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:12 EST</pubDate>
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American Legion Auxiliary Unit 325 would to thank the community for their generosity on Poppy Day (Nov. 7).            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:12 EST</pubDate>
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Ceremony honors Dallas Dunlap, nation&#8217;s Alzheimer&#8217;s victims           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:41 EST</pubDate>
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Director Bennie Totten addresses the county commissioners           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:35 EST</pubDate>
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Brooke Cayton was diagnosed when she was less than a year old           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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The Ministry of Hope will distribute food, clothing and toys Dec. 18             ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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Sheriff Sam Page and county commissioner James Kallam are on the panel           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:06 EST</pubDate>
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Mike James began his new job Monday           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:04 EST</pubDate>
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Bobby Carlsen wanted to honor emergency responders through his photographic art.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:53:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>What would heavy rains do to uranium operations?</title>
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Remnants of Ida spark debate about uranium mining at Coles Hill           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:26:15 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Essel Propack prepares for expansion</title>
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The company expects a jobs announcement in three to six months           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:19:43 EST</pubDate>
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A 19-year-old Danville man has been found guilty of the July 11 murder of Latoya Hubbard and injuring another person in a drive-by shooting on Ross Street.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:54:59 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Farms, crops soaked by recent rains</title>
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Last week&#8217;s torrential rainfalls have caused damage and delays to some Virginia farm crops, but the extent of losses is unknown, some agriculture experts said Monday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Study: Courts too often treat juveniles as adults</title>
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The authority of Virginia&#8217;s juvenile-court judges is being usurped by prosecutors and higher courts in a process that too often mixes juvenile offenders and adults and that helps transform juvenile lawbreakers onto career felons, according to a study released today.           ]]></description>
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The state of Virginia, which already has had to cut $6 billion from the two-year budget ending June 30, 2010, may have to cut $250 million to $300 million, the House Appropriations Committee was told today.           ]]></description>
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The University of Virginia on Friday gave its highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award, to the university&#8217;s president, John T. Casteen III, and the chairman of the Department of Microbiology, J. Thomas Parsons.           ]]></description>
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Del. Phillip A. Hamilton, R-Newport News, under an ethics cloud and defeated for re-election, has resigned from the House of Delegates seat he has held for 21 years.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told Virginia Board of Education members this morning that if he could run for governor again that he &#8220;definitely&#8221; would have and continue his efforts to improve education for the state&#8217;s 1 million-plus students.
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The Virginia House of Delegates&#8217; Democratic and Republican caucuses each elected their leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session during the weekend.           ]]></description>
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Larry &#8220;Bill&#8221; Elliott is scheduled to die in the electric chair tonight, a month after Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine delayed his execution.           ]]></description>
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Local health care providers and a hospital leader debate whether current health care legislation addresses the issue of affordability.           ]]></description>
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The United Way of Danville-Pittsylvania County celebrated its new location in Danville&#8217;s downtown Tobacco Warehouse District on Monday with a ribbon-cutting and open house.           ]]></description>
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Delegate Philip Hamilton, a 22-year legislator dogged by a federal investigation and defeated in a re-election bid earlier this month, resigned Monday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:26:27 EST</pubDate>
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A new nonprofit medical research institute will create 415 jobs in Fairfax County.           ]]></description>
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Rep. Barney Frank said Monday he is pushing a proposal to use some of the interest the government collects from the financial industry bailout to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to pay the mortgage.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:02:18 EST</pubDate>
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With a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes by exploiting a loophole in President Barack Obama&#8217;s child health law.           ]]></description>
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Terry McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman and Virginia gubernatorial candidate, is lending his name to a tax-credit plan co-authored by Republican George Allen and a Democrat.           ]]></description>
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An airplane towing a banner depicting the hand of a human fetus lying on top of a dime flew for three hours over Lynchburg on Monday and is expected to return today.            ]]></description>
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Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., joined a leading Republican senator Monday in sponsoring a bill that, they said, would double nuclear-produced electrical power in 20 years and support other forms of clean energy with &#8220;mini-Manhattan projects.&#8220;            ]]></description>
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On Nov. 7, Congressman Tom Perriello voted in favor of the largest single piece of legislation this country has ever seen. This is old news, albeit it exemplary of Mr. Perriello&#8217;s utopian thinking. This is the Fifth District of Virginia, not California.            ]]></description>
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I am writing concerning the front-page story, &#8220;&#8216;Book club&#8217; discusses McDonnell thesis,&#8221; (Oct. 27). Was this serious, or was it meant to be a tongue-in-cheek report about Danville Democrats? The Mickey Mouse Club would certainly have been a much more appropriate club name!            ]]></description>
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For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl&#8217;s mother offered her for sex.           ]]></description>
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The Danville TEA Party has officially cancelled its bonfire and effigy burning planned for Saturday after the event received nationwide interest, according to the group&#8217;s chairman, Nigel Coleman.           ]]></description>
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Prosecutors and defense attorneys chose the jury Tuesday after finishing the second day of jury selection in the capital murder case of Dennis Lee Daniel.           ]]></description>
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A Danville man has been arrested after a health, beauty and gift store at 107 Mall Drive was robbed at gunpoint at 2 p.m. Monday, according to a Danville Police Department news release.           ]]></description>
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A Sunday night fire caused heavy damage to a Danville home.           ]]></description>
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There are still federal stimulus funds available for energy upgrades to homes and businesses, but only if people act fast.           ]]></description>
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When Gov. Bev Perdue signed the Racial Justice Act in August, North Carolina became the second state in the country to have a law that tries to make sure that race is not a factor in in how the death penalty is applied.           ]]></description>
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Anti-war protesters try to shout down President George W. Bush at a July 4 naturalization ceremony at Monticello. U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouts &#8220;You lie!&#8220; at Barack Obama during an address by the president to Congress. Angry constituents shout in the faces of their congressmen at health care town halls.           ]]></description>
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General Motors Co. said Monday it lost $1.2 billion from the time it left bankruptcy protection through Sept. 30, far better than it has reported in previous quarters and a sign that the auto giant is starting to turn around its business.           ]]></description>
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In late summer, with polls pointing to victory, Bob McDonnell may have realized his No. 2 in the attorney general&#8217;s office, Bill Mims, was out of the running for gubernatorial chief of staff.           ]]></description>
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The hits keep coming for Virginia&#8217;s financially strapped school divisions           ]]></description>
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The University of Virginia&#8217;s Board of Visitors is poised to greenlight yet another round of demolitions of the university&#8217;s 1960s-era residence halls.           ]]></description>
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