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          <title>Man sentenced to 20 years in fatal stabbing</title>
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FAIRFAX&#8212;A man who admitted murdering his ex-girlfriend by stabbing her with a pair of scissors has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Sayed Hashemi, who also went by Ehsan Amin, was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in June to killing 25-year-old Virginia resident Homaira Rahman, stabbing her more than 90 times. The two had dated and then broken up.           ]]></description>
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          <title>VMI cadet dies after training exercise</title>
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LEXINGTON&#8212;A Virginia Military Institute freshman cadet collapsed after a training exercise and was pronounced dead shortly after noon todayat Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital. John Alexander Evans, 19, of Highland, Md., collapsed in his barracks room after completing a 10-mileroad march with other members of the class. Evans was an International Studies major and a member of the Marine ROTC program.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Volunteers continue search for missing Va. Tech student</title>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE&#8212;More than 500 volunteers are continuing the search for a Virginia Tech student who went missing in Charlottesville last month. Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, was last seen Oct. 17 after she became separated from her friends at a Metallica concert. A three-day search for Harrington began Friday with about 360 volunteers, but they turned up no new leads. On Saturday, there was a 30-minute wait for volunteers to register.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Packing company in Danville cuts 33 jobs</title>
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DANVILLE, Va.&#8212;Shorewood Packaging Corp. has cut 33 jobs at its Danville plant because of low customer demand. Plant general manager Mike Fenton says the positions were eliminated after about three months of rolling temporary layoffs. Shorewood produces packaging boxes and paper products. One of the plants four printing presses was eliminated as part of the cuts. The plant had run three shifts per day, five days a week, on each of the four printing presses.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va. man dead in nightclub shooting</title>
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EDEN, N.C.&#8212;Authorities say a 37-year-old Virginia man is dead and two other people injured in a shooting outside a North Carolina nightclub. Multiple media outlets report that Eden police were checking out a suspicious car around 2:30 a.m. Saturday when they heard gunshots coming from Eden&#8217;s Icehouse Club and Lounge. The officers say they saw several people running from the club, then found three people who had been shot.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Former Augusta County prison guard charged with bribery</title>
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Authorities have charged a former county prison guard with bribery as part of a ring they say delivered drugs to inmates. For months April M. Hogsett, 26, of Doe Hill, used her position at the Augusta County Correctional Center to work as a liaison between prisoners and an outside drug source, according to court records. Three months after arresting Hogsett on charges she delivered marijuana to an inmate, authorities this week charged her with bribery. Inmates Anthony Roach and Charles Daniel Koberstein Jr., both 33, also have been charged with bribery.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Crozet man gets 7&#189; years for Ponzi scheme</title>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE&#8212;A Crozet man who bilked more than $5.3 million from investors in a decade-long Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 7&#189; years in prison yesterday in Charlottesville&#8217;s federal court. U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon sentenced John Mark Donnelly to 90 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Authorities said Donnelly will have to repay all of the stolen money.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Volunteers search for Morgan Harrington, missing coed</title>
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One said she has had an uncanny ability to find four-leaf clovers since childhood. Another wanted to find anything that could help. &#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s better to do something than just to wait around for something to happen,&#8220; said Kelly Giltner, a first-year student at the University of Virginia, as she hiked yesterday morning through forest and thick layers of leaves near Observatory Hill with eight others.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Three Va. House Democrats undecided on health&#45;care</title>
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Three of the six Democrats in Virginia&#8217;s U.S. House delegation remain undecided heading into this weekend&#8217;s pivotal vote on President Barack Obama&#8217;s 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul. A fourth, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-11th, wants to listen to the debate but is leaning toward supporting the bill, his spokesman said. The Virginians conferred with constituents yesterday as House Democratic leaders acknowledged that they don&#8217;t yet have the 218 votes they need to pass the health-care package. House Democrats signaled that they might delay the vote until tomorrow or early next week.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va. man sentenced for running $5 million Ponzi scheme</title>
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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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          <title>Va. forestry department selling smaller bundles of seedlings</title>
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The Virginia Department of Forestry&#8217;s online tree seedling store is now open. The department has expanded its annual offerings to include seedlings in bundles of 10 and 25. The smallest quantity previously available was 50. Each year, the state&#8217;s two tree nurseries grow and sell 24 million bareroot seedlings. For more information, go to http://www.dof.virginia.gov           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cuccinelli transition team includes onetime McDonnell legal adversary</title>
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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. Cuccinelli, a Republican, announced yesterday that he selected as transition leaders former Attorneys General Andrew P. Miller, a Democrat; Republican Richard Cullen; and ex-state GOP Chairman Patrick M. McSweeney.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kaine accepts part&#45;time post at UR</title>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has accepted a part-time teaching post at the University of Richmond after he leaves the Executive Mansion in January. The school announced that Kaine will have a joint appointment in the university&#8217;s School of Law and Jepson School of Leadership Studies. He will have additional responsibilities in advancing the university&#8217;s strategic plan, The Richmond Promise.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cuccinelli details transition team</title>
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Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli is looking to predecessors from both political parties for guidance on how to run the state&#8217;s law office. Cuccinelli announced this morning that his transition will be led by former Attorneys General Andrew Miller, a Democrat, and Republican Richard Cullen, as well as former state GOP chairman Pat McSweeney.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va. National Guard unit headed to Iraq</title>
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LYNCHBURG&#8212;About 400 members of a Lynchburg-based Virginia National Guard battalion are being mobilized for a security mission in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Robert Newman Jr., the adjutant general of Virginia, says the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Brigade Combat Team will begin federal active duty on Jan. 5. The soldiers will undergo mobilization training at Camp Shelby, Miss., for 45 to 60 days before they are deployed to Iraq.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va. pilot walks away from N.Y. crash of small plane</title>
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CLERMONT, N.Y.&#8212;The pilot of a single-engine plane has escaped serious injury after his newly bought aircraft flipped over while making a crash landing in a Hudson Valley field. State police say 50-year-old pilot Jay Morrissett of Bumpass, Va., was the only person on board the 1946 Ercoupe yesterday afternoon when he reported that the plane was losing power because of a mechanical problem.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Norfolk State president a finalist for Morgan State post</title>
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NORFOLK&#8212;Norfolk State University President Carolyn Meyers is in line for a new job. Meyers has been named one of three finalists for the top job at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Morgan State&#8217;s Board of Regents is expected to name a new president in December to succeed Earl Richardson. He&#8217;s leaving after 25 years at the university.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:36:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>GOP gains at least five Virginia House seats</title>
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Virginia Republicans gained at least five seats in Tuesday&#8217;s elections for the House of Delegates, boosting Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell ahead of his first General Assembly session. The 21st District race remains too close to call. Republican challenger Ronald A. Villanueva, a member of the Virginia Beach City Council, leads Del. Robert W. Mathieson, D-Virginia Beach, by 16 votes out of more than 15,300 cast.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kaine reflects on losses</title>
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Even before the first tallies were in Tuesday night, the sign outside the Westin Richmond Hotel meeting room where the Virginia Democratic Party convened seemed a plea to forget what was about to happen: &#8220;Channel Your Energy, Replenish Your Spirit and Embrace The Endless Possibilities The Day Brings,&#8220; it stated. Yesterday, after Republicans had swept Virginia&#8217;s statewide offices and captured the New Jersey governor&#8217;s office, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine did not sound like he would be leaving his post as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.           ]]></description>
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          <title>McDonnell announces transition committee</title>
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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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          <title>Missing Tech student&#8217;s family plans new ground search</title>
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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 John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia. Harrington&#8217;s parents were in Charlottesville yesterday with the father of returned abductee Elizabeth Smart to announce a new ground search tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>EPA sets tough interim rule for bay cleanup</title>
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States that contribute pollution to the Chesapeake Bay must have controls in place by 2017 to reduce that pollution 60 percent, federal officials say. That is one of a list of cleanup requirements the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent the six bay states, including Virginia, in a letter yesterday. The letter &#8220;is about establishing a new era of federal leadership for the Chesapeake Bay, one that is marked by new accountability,&#8220; said J. Charles Fox, President Barack Obama&#8217;s senior adviser to the EPA for bay issues.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama nominates two N.C. judges for 4th Circuit</title>
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President Barack Obama yesterday nominated two more judges, both from North Carolina, for the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If appointed, Albert Diaz would be the first Hispanic to serve on the 15-judge court, and the other, James Wynn, would be the fourth African-American, said Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Jeff&#8217;s Notes &#45; Nov. 5th</title>
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How far right? Political columnist Jeff Schapiro says governor-elect Bob McDonnell is a conservative with the good sense to gloss over some of his edgier views. That may not be the case with the new attorny general, Ken Cuccinelli, who could squeeze McDonnell from the right.           ]]></description>
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          <title>McDonnell begins naming members of transition team</title>
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Advisers include Tom Farrell, head of Dominion Resources; Attorney General Bill Mims; and Kay Coles James, a cabinet official for Gov. George Allen and an official in the administration of President George W. Bush.            ]]></description>
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          <title>EPA issues new guidelines on Chesapeake Bay restoration</title>
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released details today about how it expects states to restore the Chesapeake Bay.
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          <title>Obama calls McDonnell</title>
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President Barack Obama called Gov-elect Bob McDonnell late this morning  &#8212;&nbsp; reportedly a pleasant, 10 minute conversation. 
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          <title>Obama nominates 2 for 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals</title>
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President Barrack Obama today nominated two more judges for the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, both to fill North Carolina seats. 
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Police say a Fairfax County couple has been arrested on child abuse charges for allowing their 5-month-old son to overdose on heroin.
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Virginia State Police are stepping up enforcement of HOV rules, and they are catching a lot of violators.
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National Republican chairman says victories in Va., N.J., mean party is on the move again; Democratic leader and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine says his party has a &#8220;higher platform&#8221; from which to rebuild.           ]]></description>
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Lawyers for John Allen Muhammad filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court late yesterday and asked the justices to stop his execution set for Tuesday.
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HAMPTON&#8212;Officials at Fort Monroe say experts have unearthed an 11-foot-long cannon from the 1860s as part of a four-month munitions probe. The probe by a team of environmental and unexploded ordnance experts is in preparation for Fort Monroe&#8217;s closure in September 2011. Officials say the Civil War-era cannon is believed to be a four-and-a-half-inch ordnance rifle. It was buried vertically, with the uppermost edge about two inches below ground level. If so, it would be one of only 57 known to exist.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is ascribing Democratic defeats Tuesday in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections to uphill battles against historical trends.           ]]></description>
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Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling last night won re-election to the part-time office that traditionally serves as both gubernatorial sidekick and as a steppingstone to the state&#8217;s top job. Bolling, 52, an insurance executive from Hanover County, soundly defeated Democratic challenger Jody Wagner of Virginia Beach, the 54-year-old former state treasurer who served as secretary of finance under Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Analysis: GOP sweep shows policies, not parties, are paramount in Va. politics</title>
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A year after tipping Democratic for president for the first time since 1964, Virginia fell to Republicans in a dramatic statewide sweep that is a historic reminder of its enduring competitiveness&#8212;but may not be a model for a national GOP comeback. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a red state,&#8220; said Jay Timmons, chief of staff in the governorship of George Allen, whose victory in 1993 led the last Republican resurgence.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:15 EST</pubDate>
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Republicans last night were well on their way to increasing their control of the Virginia House of Delegates. Heading into the election yesterday, Republicans held 53 seats and Democrats held 45. Two independents generally vote with the Republicans. Last night, it appeared that Republicans had a net gain of at least three seats and that three other races involving Democratic incumbents were too close to call.           ]]></description>
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          <title>McDonnell leads GOP sweep of statewide races</title>
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Double-digit victories by Bob McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli, the party&#8217;s nominee for attorney general, reversed a recent string of defeats for Republicans.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cuccinelli elected attorney general</title>
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Virginia has elected Republican Ken Cuccinelli as its next attorney general, overwhelmingly favoring the state senator from Fairfax County who has pledged to protect the Virginia Constitution and the state&#8217;s right-to-work law. As polls had predicted, Cuccinelli won a crushing defeat over his Democratic opponent&#8212;and friend&#8212;Del. Stephen C. Shannon of Fairfax.           ]]></description>
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People had plenty of reasons for voting&#8212;or not voting&#8212;yesterday. Sharon Nettles, a 21-year-old sales clerk, said she couldn&#8217;t spare time from work&#8212;and this election just wasn&#8217;t that interesting to her. &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s really talking about it that much,&#8220; said Nettles, who lives near the Shops at Willow Lawn in Henrico County.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE&#8212;Winemaker and philanthropist Patricia Kluge has put on the market for $100 million her 24,000-squarefoot Albemarle House estate and 300 acres surrounding it. Kluge, 61, said she and her husband, William Moses, are planning to build a new home on a neighboring 900 acres. &#8220;[Albemarle] House is huge, and we would like to create our own house on the other side of the road and build a new house for ourselves and family,&#8220; Kluge said. &#8220;Grandchildren are coming into our lives now, and we want to have a home that better fits our lifestyle.&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was out of state for at least parts of 14 days in October, according to a travel log that his office released late yesterday. Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was in Chicago and Boston on Oct. 15 and returned from Boston on Oct. 16. He traveled to New York on Oct. 20, stayed overnight, and stopped in Washington on the way back to Richmond the next day, according to the log.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Republican Sen. Ken Cuccinelli was elected attorney general tonight over Democratic Del. Stephen C. Shannon in a battle between lawmakers from Fairfax County.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:15:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bill Bolling re&#45;elected lieutenant governor</title>
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Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling easily won a second term as lieutenant governor tonight, defeating Democrat Jody Wagner, a former state treasurer, according to unofficial returns.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:10:10 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bob McDonnell elected Virginia&#8217;s 71st governor</title>
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Bob McDonnell led a Republican sweep of Virginia&#8217;s statewide races tonight, restoring the Republicans to power after eight years out of the governor&#8217;s office. The dominant victories by McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli, the party&#8217;s nominee for attorney general, reversed a recent string of defeats for Republicans, who lost races for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and 2008 and the presidential election in Virginia in 2008 for the first time in 44 years.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:46 EST</pubDate>
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Philanthropist and vintner Patricia Kluge has put her 24,000-square-foot Albemarle County house and 300 acres on the market.
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          <title>UPDATE: Details emerge about weapons used in Farmville killings</title>
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Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III of Castro Valley, Calif., faces six counts of capital murder and a charge of grand larceny.
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Four men who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a plot to kidnap the wives of wealthy Roanoke-area men and hold them for ransom are going to prison.           ]]></description>
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VIRGINIA BEACH&#8212;Regent University has named Carlos Campo to succeed founder Pat Robertson as the school&#8217;s next president. Campo has served as the private Christian university&#8217;s vice president for academic affairs since 2008 and will take over as president in August. Campo had Robertson&#8217;s endorsement and received unanimous approval from school trustees last week.           ]]></description>
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Virginia&#8217;s gubernatorial candidates cast their ballots this morning.           ]]></description>
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Contributions to Operation Blessing International increased by 46 percent last year, with most of the donations non-cash contributions such as surplus food and goods for needy families and disaster victims.           ]]></description>
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a long-awaited entry into the Virginia governor&#8217;s race via an automated call to as many as 350,000 state residents urging them to vote.
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Prince William County police say two teenagers have been found fatally shot at a home in Triangle.
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Republican Bob McDonnell held an early lead in the race to become the 71st governor of Virginia today. First Virginia Board of Elections results showed McDonnell leading Democrat R. Creigh Deeds by a wide margin.&nbsp; 
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Q. What&#8217;s on the ballot? &nbsp; A. Voters statewide will elect a governor, a lieutenant governor and an attorney general. All 100 House of Delegates seats are up for election, but only 69 are contested. State senators are not on the ballot until 2011. &nbsp; Q. What else is on the ballot? &nbsp; A. It varies by locality. Part of Richmond will select a City Council member in the 7th District. Hopewell will elect a commonwealth&#8217;s attorney; Petersburg will elect a sheriff; Colonial Heights will elect a commissioner of the revenue.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:10 EST</pubDate>
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Virginians cast ballots for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and all 100 seats in the House of Delegates. Virginia, N.J. are the only states electing governors today.
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After running low on swine-flu vaccine last week, area health departments are again receiving shipments. The Chesterfield Health District will hold an H1N1 vaccination clinic starting today at noon at health department offices at 9501 Lucy Corr Circle. The health district has 800 vaccine doses, and the clinic will run until 5 p.m. or the vaccine runs out, whichever comes first. The clinic is targeting children, pregnant women and others at high risk for complications from influenza.           ]]></description>
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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is lending its support to efforts to turn historic Fort Monroe into a national park when the Army leaves the post in 2011. &#8220;The sense I get is that it hasn&#8217;t been evaluated to the extent that it should be,&#8220; said Christy Everett, the foundation&#8217;s Hampton Roads director. &#8220;If this isn&#8217;t an open-space opportunity, I don&#8217;t know what is.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Public-health officials caution that shutting schools is not a cure-all for the flu epidemic. Under some circumstances, doing so can cause other social problems, they say.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:59 EST</pubDate>
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The parents of a Virginia Tech student missing for more than two weeks have set up a fund for contributions to help in their search for her.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:54:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ex&#45;Va. Beach police officer pleads guilty in marriage&#45;fraud case</title>
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A former Virginia Beach police officer has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge, admitting that he was a key figure in a marriage-fraud case.           ]]></description>
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HAMPTON&#8212;The federal agency overseeing Fort Monroe&#8217;s transfer to the state of Virginia is seeking guidance on what visitors would like to experience when they visit. The Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority plans to start working on devising an interpretive master plan and a business plan for the 570-acre historic waterfront post, which the Army plans to leave in 2011.           ]]></description>
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MARTINSVILLE&#8212;A man suspected of fatally shooting four men in the parking lot of a North Carolina television shop was arrested early today in Virginia, police said. Police in Mount Airy, N.C., said Marcos Chavez Gonzalez was arrested without incident at a motel in Henry County, about 50 miles northeast of Mount Airy near the state line. He was charged with four counts of murder.           ]]></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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The University of Virginia&#8217;s Honor Committee is facing a dilemma: How should it treat students who have a sort of dual status in the university community? Add to this the fact that they&#8217;re on a ship halfway around the world as part of the university-affiliated Semester at Sea program. For a single-sanction system, where the only punishment for lying, cheating or stealing is expulsion, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any easy answer.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE&#8212;Fifty years after a deadly plane crash on Buck&#8217;s Elbow Mountain near Crozet, local residents and families of the dead are still seeking clues as to what happened. Dozens of people, including family members of the 26 people killed in Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, gathered Saturday at a memorial site at Mint Springs Valley Park to share newspaper articles and stories.           ]]></description>
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LYNCHBURG&#8212;Tomorrow&#8217;s election will be the last time Jerry Smith won&#8217;t vote. A couple of crimes from about 40 years ago, when he was a teenager, cost Smith the right to a spot at the polls. But it wasn&#8217;t until his status as a convicted felon also cost him a job he loved that he decided to regain what was lost amid his convictions&#8212;his right to vote, serve on a jury and run for political office.           ]]></description>
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Republican Bob McDonnell said yesterday that his jobs-and-economy theme has helped push him ahead, while Democrat R. Creigh Deeds continued promoting themes of education and transportation as the gubernatorial campaign headed into its final two days. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour joined McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and GOP attorney general hopeful Ken Cuccinelli for yesterday&#8217;s first two stops in Springfield and Fredericksburg, before the trio headed to stops in Chesterfield County and Williamsburg.           ]]></description>
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Virginia Beach police say red-light violations have declined at intersections that have been monitored by cameras since March. Officer Brian Walters, coordinator of the PhotoSafe Program, says violations are down at all 11 intersections that have received cameras in the program&#8217;s first six months. The declines are as great as 69 percent.           ]]></description>
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STANARDSVILLE&#8212;An English baron and noted director of such TV shows as &#8220;The Avengers,&#8220; &#8220;The Saint,&#8220; &#8220;Hawaii Five-0,&#8220; &#8220;Magnum, P.I.,&#8220; and &#8220;Airwolf,&#8220; has been arrested and charged with felony larceny in Greene County, officials say. Raymond J. Devere-Austin, 76, lives at an estate on Buck Mountain Road in Albemarle County. Devere-Austin was arrested Monday and charged with stealing &#8220;numerous items&#8221; from the Antiquer&#8217;s Mall in Ruckersville, according to a news release from the Greene County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.           ]]></description>
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Stephen C. Shannon (Democrat) Ken Cuccinelli (Republican) Q. If elected, how would you help put people back to work? Cuccinelli: Virginia is currently rated the No. 1 state in which to do business by Forbes magazine. One of the main reasons for this success is that we have had Republican attorneys general over the last 15 years who have protected the people of Virginia while staying out of the way of businesses &#8220;doing business,&#8220; unlike the Democrats&#8217; vision of heavy regulation and the promotion of unions. As attorney general, I will seek to bolster our economy by protecting the commonwealth of Virginia&#8217;s right-to-work status and by working to keep state government regulations to the minimum possible to keep our citizens safe and productive. In Virginia, state law today secures employees&#8217; rights to decide for themselves whether to join or support a union. The law makes it illegal for any employer to come to an agreement with a union that non-union employees will be excluded from its rolls. This statute is very important for the business climate of Virginia, as right-to-work states generally experience higher economic growth, higher job creation and lower unemployment rates than do non-right-to-work law states. I believe it is not a coincidence that in recent years almost all of the new auto factories have been located in right-to-work states. Unfortunately, the federal government has chosen to push legislation&#8212;commonly called &#8220;card check&#8221;&#8212;that would dramatically undermine Virginia&#8217;s right-to-work law. . . . As attorney general, I will seek to use the 10th Amendment to prevent the Congress and the president from undermining our right-to-work law. Currently, the Virginia Administrative Code contains over 23,000 pages, and Virginia citizens and businesses are expected to understand and comply with the legal requirements contained within these 23,000 pages. This requires money by these citizens, which is eventually passed along to the public at large by higher prices for the products. In 2006, Attorney General Bob McDonnell announced his Government and Regulatory Reform Task Force, which worked in a bipartisan fashion to eliminate excessive and unnecessary government regulations. The task force produced its final report on June 11, 2009. As attorney general, I will continue to implement these suggestions, if any remain, and to prevent the continuing buildup of unnecessary new regulations.           ]]></description>
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Michele Shuman suffers from an invisible disease. That disease is lupus, and it afflicts about 75,000 people in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Some people with lupus get a butterfly-shaped rash on their faces. But many do not, making the disease hard for others to notice. &#8220;When you look at someone with lupus, unless they have the rash showing, they don&#8217;t look like they have anything wrong with them,&#8220; said Shuman, 54, of Chesterfield County.           ]]></description>
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Republican Bob McDonnell is favored by 53 percent, while Democrat R. Creigh Deeds is preferred by 41 percent&#8212;a widened lead from an early October survey for the newspaper. Six percent are undecided in the latest poll.           ]]></description>
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The parents of a missing Coast Guard aviator from Virginia aren&#8217;t giving up hope that their son survived a collision with a Marine Corps helicopter. Adam Bryant, 28, of Crewe is among the nine people missing at sea after Thursday&#8217;s crash off the Southern California coast, the Coast Guard said. Bryant was co-pilot of the Coast Guard C-130.           ]]></description>
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R. Creigh Deeds (Democrat) Bob McDonnell (Republican) Q. If elected, how would you help put people back to work? Deeds: The first job of the next governor is to restore confidence in the economy. I&#8217;ve put forward a comprehensive plan to create jobs in every area of the commonwealth, preserve our low-tax, business-friendly climate, and finally pass a statewide transportation plan. My plan will work best because it gives immediate incentives for job creation, giving a tax cut for every job created. It builds to last by investing in education and training and emerging industries like renewable energy. I led the effort to create the modern Governor&#8217;s Opportunity Fund, which has created or saved over 79,000 jobs in Virginia. I&#8217;ll double that fund and add $10 million for job training to help Virginia compete with neighboring states for top companies to move here. I&#8217;ll make it easier to start and expand a small business, train more nurses and health-care professionals to work in high-need areas, and double our investment in tourism. McDonnell: The top issue in this campaign is jobs and the economy. I&#8217;m running to be a jobs governor. I have laid out innovative ideas to create new jobs and get our economy back on track. I want to make Virginia the best place in America to open and grow a small business. I support expediting the permitting process for small businesses, the enterprise zone program and tax credits for green jobs. I will double the Governor&#8217;s Opportunity Fund to help attract new business. I will give tax credits to businesses that expand or create jobs in economically distressed areas. I will protect the jobs we have by standing up against federal policies like card check and cap-and-trade that, if enacted, threaten thousands of jobs in the commonwealth. We must send a clear message that Virginia is open for business, with a pro-business climate that stands out because of low taxes and incentives for job creation, limited regulation and a fiscally sound government that lives within its means.           ]]></description>
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Jody Wagner (Democrat) Bill Bolling (Republican) Q. If elected, how would you help put people back to work? Bolling: I have put forth a detailed Jobs for Virginians program . . . that focuses on providing additional tax incentives for businesses creating jobs in Virginia, reducing the regulatory burden on Virginia businesses and investing in proven economic development and job-creation programs. In addition, my More Energy, More Jobs program is designed to make Virginia the East Coast&#8217;s leader in developing traditional, renewable and new and emerging energy technologies. Finally, I will stand in firm opposition to tax increases and misguided federal policies like &#8220;card check&#8221; and cap and trade, which will kill jobs and drive our economy deeper into recession.           ]]></description>
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          <title>McDonnell holds wide lead in Times&#45;Dispatch poll</title>
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Bob McDonnell is favored by 53 percent, while Democrat R. Creigh Deeds is preferred by 41 percent &#8212; a widened lead from an early October survey for the newspaper. Six percent are undecided in the latest poll. 
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As the two men campaigning for Virginia governor make last-minute sound bites to get out the vote on Tuesday, the virtual cocktail parties they host on their Facebook fan pages have exploded in activity. Both campaigns have rolled out Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, YouTube videos and other social media tools to reach voters over the course of the race, in addition to their primary Web sites.           ]]></description>
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Chesterfield County Public Schools will receive a windfall of nearly $671,000 from savings on bonds refinanced this year by the state. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced yesterday that the state will distribute $28.7 million to Chesterfield and 27 other school divisions, as well as the state Literary Fund. The savings resulted from lower interest rates on bonds refinanced by the Virginia Public School Authority.           ]]></description>
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Things are looking up for the Republicans&#8217; down-ticket candidates, according to the latest poll for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.            ]]></description>
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McDonnell Deeds The Republican statewide ticket rolled into the GOP heartland yesterday exuding confidence but urging stepped-up get-out-the-vote efforts. &#8220;Put up the last sign, talk to someone at the water cooler, send out another e-mail,&#8220; gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell told about 75 Republicans crowded into the Homemades by Suzanne catering shop in Ashland.           ]]></description>
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The proposed King College medical school gained considerable traction this week, receiving a $25 million grant that assures it would be built in Virginia. The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, which met Thursday in Wytheville, approved the grant as part of more than $30 million in appropriations for projects in Southwest Virginia.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is headed to Franklin this afternoon to meet with community leaders and employees at International Paper, an economic mainstay that announced last week it was closing its mill in Isle of Wight County.
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Fairfax County planners estimate it will take $15 billion in transportation improvements to revamp Tysons Corner into a dense, walkable urban hub.
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Virginia&#8217;s lieutenant governor has just two constitutionally mandated responsibilities. Yet the short job description hasn&#8217;t stopped Republican Bill Bolling or Democrat Jody Wagner from spending millions of dollars to win election.
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A federal appeals court grappled yesterday with the question of whether a judge went too far when she overturned Virginia&#8217;s ban on liquor advertising in college newspapers.           ]]></description>
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Sensing a winner, out-of-state high rollers are pumping fistfuls of cash into Bob McDonnell&#8217;s gubernatorial campaign, while Democrats suggest Republicans and their allies are outspending R. Creigh Deeds on television nearly 2-to-1. While burning through millions of dollars on advertising, mail and voter mobilization in the run-up to Tuesday&#8217;s election, the candidates yesterday dashed through the Richmond area, reaching out to key constituencies.           ]]></description>
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The license of a Staunton physician accused of having sexual relations with patients, verbally abusing a 5-year-old, smoking marijuana and other misconduct was suspended yesterday for three years. The Virginia Board of Medicine approved the suspension in a 6-0 vote. The action averted a hearing on Dr. Charles K. Weisman, who offered to accept the penalty provided that he did not have to admit or deny the allegations.           ]]></description>
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The license of a Staunton physician accused of having sexual relations with patients, verbally abusing a 5-year-old, smoking marijuana and other misconduct was suspended yesterday for three years. The Virginia Board of Medicine approved the suspension in a 6-0 vote. The action averted a hearing on Dr. Charles K. Weisman, who offered to accept the penalty provided that he did not have to admit or deny the allegations made against him.           ]]></description>
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The parents of a Virginia Tech student missing since she went to a Metallica concert nearly two weeks ago are asking that people continue to share information with police.           ]]></description>
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GOP&#8217;s Bob McDonnell warns against overconfidence while Democrat Creigh Deeds said he can prevail despite gloomy forecast in public opinion polls.           ]]></description>
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A nonprofit group has halted a planned mass mailing that would have the disclosed the voting history of thousands of Virginians after questions were raised about its legality.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:53:51 EST</pubDate>
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The Nature Conservancy has acquired a 25-acre hillside tract along Indian Creek in the Clinch Valley to help protect a rare freshwater mussel.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:15:25 EST</pubDate>
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LARRY O&#8217;DELL
Associated Press Writer           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:29:27 EST</pubDate>
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Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York campaign for McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and attorney general hopeful Ken Cuccinelli.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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The last reported sighting of Morgan D. Harrington was on a bridge over railroad tracks near the John Paul Jones Arena. Virginia State Police released a new timeline to draw more tips from the public.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:11 EST</pubDate>
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8:20-8:30 p.m. Harrington tries to re-enter arena near main entrance. &nbsp; 8:30-8:48 A woman fitting her description is seen outside the arena at various locations. &nbsp; 8:48 Harrington talks to friends by cell phone. &nbsp; 9-9:10 A woman fitting her description is seen walking through University Hall parking lot toward Lannigan Field.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Louise Amato stood outside the State Board of Elections office at 1100 Bank St. in Richmond yesterday and held up a large sign that read: &#8220;Those who count the votes, decide everything.&#8220; She was quoting the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and making the point that late absentee ballots from military personnel serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere should be counted.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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This past week, Creigh Deeds was very much an Obama Democrat.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:39:45 EST</pubDate>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE&#8212;Police are hoping a timeline of when and where a Virginia Tech student was last seen will help jog the memory of someone who can provide a key clue to her whereabouts. Authorities believe Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, was last seen at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 17 on a bridge in Charlottesville, Virginia State Police Lt. Joe Rader said today.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:20:30 EST</pubDate>
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