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						<title><![CDATA[Man set to die for 2000 murder of woman, 79]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Unless the governor or the courts intervene, Kent Jermaine Jackson will die Thursday for the murder of a widow who lived across the hall from his Newport News apartment. The body of Beulah Mae Kaiser, 79, was discovered April 18, 2000, amid her modest, ransacked belongings. She died two days earlier, on a Sunday after returning from church.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Wilder, council wrangling means no pension raises]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Richmond's battle of the budgets has claimed a first casualty: a 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment for retirees' pensions.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Webb tells Obama he's not interested]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[In a written statement released by his office, Webb said &quot;Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for vice president.&quot;]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[McCain, Obama clash on Va. issues]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[One big difference is drilling off shores of Va., other states.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:09:53 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Intrigue for the AG, court seat]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Only in the connect-the-dots universe of Virginia politics could a vacancy on the state Supreme Court determine whether the attorney general resigns in a gamble for governor. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Protesters disrupt Monticello service]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[The newest citizens of the United States got a lesson in freedom and tolerance yesterday at Monticello, along with a handshake or hug from the nation's president to welcome them to America. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Helms, a lion of the right, dies at 86]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, who rose to national prominence as an unwavering and unapologetically controversial lion of the American right, died on the Fourth of July. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:15:04 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Streams of solace for injured vets]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEWATER A Baghdad bomb wounded Army Staff Sgt. Brian Mancini's body and spirit. Babbling creeks and cagey fish are helping him heal. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Wilder: Cuts in spending needed]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Mayor says that budget with lower tax rate means cuts are needed elsewhere.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[McCain: Staff shifts 'natural']]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Questions on shake-up of campaign leadership push trade message to background.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:09:51 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Obama open to a new plan]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[FARGO, N.D. -- Democrat Barack Obama opened the door yesterday to refining his plan to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq based on what he hears from military commanders during his coming trip there. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:09:51 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Democrat suspends campaign]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Dr. Keith Hummel, a Democrat from Montross, has suspended his campaign for the 1st District congressional seat, leaving the Democratic Party potentially without a candidate to run against first-year Republican Rep. Robert J. Wittman. Hummel said discussions about past financial difficulties have become a &quot;distraction from the real issues at stake in this election.&quot; Those difficulties include a bankruptcy, campaign manager Stephen Pierce said.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:08:57 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Warner: New speed limit may save gas]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Sen. John W. Warner suggested yesterday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and possibly ease fuel prices. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[West African bushmen are denied U.S. visas]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[STAUNTON -- Three West African bushmen recruited to build an authentic mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia were denied visas because they are too poor and inarticulate. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Governor Kaine uses town halls to dole out money]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Staff members from the state's Division of Unclaimed Property run names of attendees through a database of unclaimed money turned over to the state.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:35:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Tickets go fast for President Bush at Monticello]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTESVILLE -- People hoping to see President Bush waited for hours for a chance to get free tickets for Monticello's annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[More money talks louder]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Commentary from political writer Jeff Schapiro on candidates using summer socials to shake down corporate lobbyists.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:22:52 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Only the earlybirds got the tickets to see Pres. Bush at Monticello]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[It took about a half-hour this morning for Monticello officials to distribute 1,000 tickets for its annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony on Friday, but it took at least two or more hours of waiting for the folks who wanted them. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:19:36 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Whose budget is the city of Richmond using?]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[His aides won't talk and even Mayor L. Douglas Wilder wouldn't come right out and say it -- Richmond started the fiscal year with his budget, not one approved by the City Council. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Obama endorses faith-based aid]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- Taking a page from President Bush, Democrat Barack Obama said yesterday he wants to expand White House efforts to steer social-service dollars to religious groups. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:09:54 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[McCain praises free-trade pacts]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[John McCain yesterday portrayed free trade as a win-win proposition for the U.S. and its Latin American economic partners, but labor leaders said it has been a big loser for Rust Belt voters. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:09:54 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Politician, activist J.P. Ould Jr. dies]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[James Palmer Ould Jr. was steadfast in his belief that if individuals exercised their voice, they could make a difference in their communities. As a politician, businessman and community-minded advocate, Mr. Ould did more than just follow through on his belief -- he lived it.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Richmond council awaits budget outcome]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Richmond's new fiscal year starts today, but it has two competing budgets -- Mayor L. Douglas Wilder's and the City Council's -- and an unanswered question. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Saudi may face capital charges in USS Cole bombing]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said yesterday that it is charging a Saudi Arabian with &quot;organizing and directing&quot; the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and will seek the death penalty. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Legislators go nowhere on roads but take stipend]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Most state lawmakers managed to accomplish one thing in this special session: collect a paycheck. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Richmond schools seek new handicap assessment]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Study would be paid for with money for improving buildings.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:09:53 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Protest of power plant leads to 12 arrests]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[The protesters - all part of a contingent of more than 20 members of Blue Ridge Earth First! - were arrested on misdemeanor charges.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Revised law affects strip clubs]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[A law that takes effect today may close a loophole that allowed strip clubs to get licenses to serve liquor during the past 10 months.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Richmond controller has left city's service]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Richmond has lost its third controller -- the top official responsible for accurately reporting its financial position -- in less than two years. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Virginia won't seek charges over same-sex couple's license]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[A couple who obtained a state marriage license and had a ceremony before authorities realized both were biological men will not face charges, officials said yesterday. Antonio E. Blount, 31, and Justin L. McCain, 18, faced misdemeanor false-information charges, punishable by a fine up to $250. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:50 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[City's mayoral hopefuls cautious on Davis statue]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Goldman Grey Jones Pantele Williams Should a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis join the one of Abraham Lincoln at Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond? ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:40 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[McCain campaign names Va. director]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Mike Reynold has taken a five-month leave of absence from Attorney General Bob McDonnell's campaign for governor to direct Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in Virginia. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:09:51 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Road-funding solution may fall to next governor]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Virginia's long and winding road to a transportation fix may not end with this year's special session. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Congressmen prefer SUVs]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Congress spent much of the last month debating ways to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil. Perhaps members should look in their garages. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:09:42 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Honk if you think Kaine is relevant]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[As the transportation fight grinds on with the all the pleasure of a toothache, the attitude of Virginia legislators toward Tim Kaine recalls a schoolboy's taunt: &quot;I'm not scared of you!&quot; ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Obama supporters gather in Richmond]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama took his campaign for president to the neighborhood level across America last night, including Richmond. About 15 supporters gathered at the Military Retiree's Center in North Side. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[State Republicans pick new director]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Allison Coccia, formerly executive director of the New York Republican State Committee, has been named executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia. ]]></description>
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						<description><![CDATA[This year, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has signed into law 884 bills passed by the legislature. The vast majority -- from driver's licenses to payday lending to animal fighting -- take effect Tuesday. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:01:54 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[UNITY, N.H. -- Another chapter of the Democratic presidential campaign of a thousand arguments officially started yesterday with a single embrace. ]]></description>
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						<description><![CDATA[While Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were making nice in Unity, N.H., Democrats were talking togetherness in Virginia.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:09:53 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Republican John McCain chastised Democratic rival Barack Obama over a report that Obama claimed that McCain, if elected, would appoint a Supreme Court that rolls back gains in women's rights. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:09:53 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Powhatan teen's slaying raises a question: Who needs an AK-47?]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[No one would mistake the Flat Rock area of Powhatan County for South Central Los Angeles. Homicides are a shocking rarity in this slice of rural Virginia, much less those involving an assault rifle.]]></description>
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						<title><![CDATA[Obama, Clinton campaign together today in N.H. ]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Putting their political turbulence behind them, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton began a show of unity Friday in New Hampshire for their first public appearance together since the primary race ended.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:25:33 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Mayor L. Douglas Wilder's parting gift to Richmond could be a new police chief. Wilder announced yesterday the formation of a search committee to find a successor to Rodney Monroe, who stepped down this month to become chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., Police Department.]]></description>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON --The Senate last night approved new educational benefits for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a $162 billion emergency war funding bill. The vote capped an 18-month fight for a new GI bill that Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., introduced his first day in office in 2007. The Bush administration endorsed the bill (HR 2642) last week after being assured service members could transfer their education benefits to spouses or children. The Senate voted 92-6 last night to pass the bill and send it to Bush.]]></description>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- In 1791, a time of birth pangs for a nation, leaders carved a guarantee into the bedrock of the Constitution -- that the people have the right to keep and bear arms. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Kaine transportation plan killed; gas-tax increase likely to fail.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Local gun owners hail ruling]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Customers and employees at a Chesterfield County shooting range hailed yesterday's Supreme Court decision, saying innocent people should be allowed to defend themselves with the same types of weapons an intruder might have.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:09:51 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Richmond's next mayor won't take office with a hefty raise. Legislation that would have increased the mayor's annual salary to $150,000 from $125,000 is set to be struck at the request of its patron, City Councilwoman Reva M. Trammell. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:08:55 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[In search of a highway fix]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Watch a Q&amp;A with Governor Tim Kaine on the transportation standoff.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:30 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama head to the town of Unity, New Hampshire to hold their first joint public appearance.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:04:34 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Execution for raping children rejected]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court yesterday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. &quot;The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,&quot; Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.]]></description>
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						<description><![CDATA[Boucher among 94 Democrats who got money, reversed votes on immunity in wiretap cases.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[The Chesterfield County branch of the NAACP has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of county voters asking that proposed changes in some polling places be rejected. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Candidate proposes a 50 percent cut in business-license tax.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Senate OKs names for new Virginia courthouse ]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate has passed legislation naming a new federal courthouse in Richmond after two judges.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:14:39 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Senate this afternoon approved a penny-per-gallon increase in the state's gasoline tax and other levies to fund transportation. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[With gas at $4, it's open season for pandering]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Like rival filling-station owners in long-gone price wars, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama keep putting up flashy signs and offering new incentives to customers battered by $4-a-gallon gas prices. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:35:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Transportation deal lacks traction]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Va. lawmakers are pessimistic that this week's special session of the General Assembly will produce a viable solution to the state's transportation-funding crisis.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Groups sound off on taxes]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[A business group that backs higher taxes for transportation and activists who oppose them were out in force yesterday as lawmakers returned to Richmond. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:09:54 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[The key to ending highway congestion: clearing the political bottleneck on Capitol Square. &quot;That's where the real traffic jam is,&quot; said Ray Pethtel, a former state transportation commissioner now with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. With the General Assembly returning tomorrow for another go at fixing transportation, the forces that have kept lawmakers and the governor at loggerheads for three years -- among them, sharp partisanship and regional rivalries -- remain firmly in place.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[As states try many ways to find cash, experts warn 'there is no magic'.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Against ethanol: Reps. James P. Moran, D-8th, and Thomas M. Davis III, R-11th, joined 56 House colleagues Wednesday in recommending that the United States stop producing corn-based ethanol in order to bring down rising food prices. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:09:50 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[The longtime aide to President Bush said he doesn't know if crimes were committed when administration officials revealed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Two industries that could be hurt by components of Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's $1 billion transportation proposal are among the top donors to lawmakers who will decide whether it passes. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Paul Goldman, a Carytown regular and a candidate for Richmond mayor, is proposing to revamp the shopping district into a pedestrian mall. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:08:57 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Some politicians apparently will do just about anything for your vote. Former Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Republican now running for U.S. Senate, says he would drill for oil in his own backyard. Just kidding. Again moving to translate anger over rising gasoline prices to votes for his uphill race against former Gov. Mark R. Warner, Gilmore yesterday joked that the push for new oil sources just might lead to his suburban Richmond home.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Former rivals for the Republican gubernatorial nomination want their party to know that they work and play well together. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:08:52 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's $1 billion transportation bill won't be the only proposal in the mix Monday as lawmakers return to take up the state's road woes. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., yesterday hailed President Bush's pledge not to veto his GI Bill to expand educational opportunities for military veterans. The House voted 268-155 to provide $162 billion to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan well into next year, and Webb's proposal is included in a supplemental funding measure. As debate began yesterday, the White House issued a statement in support of the war-funding measure.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:09:55 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Richmond residents will speak at the polls in November, but they had a chance last night to help shape the agendas of the five candidates for mayor. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:08:51 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Parental leave, fueling food prices and more ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:59:11 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Political columnist Jeff Schapiro says if you combined the strengths of the five candidates running to replace Doug Wilder, you'd have one great mayor. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Va. won't take inmates from out of state]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[After protests from sheriffs, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has directed the Virginia Department of Corrections to stop housing out-of-state prisoners. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Budget cuts mean fewer new roads]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Virginia's long-term spending on transportation is shrinking. Last year's six-year plan called for starting 237 new highway-construction projects around the state. This year's plan lists only 164. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Cantor-for-VP effort hits Web]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Washington lobbyist pushes congressman from Henrico for GOP presidential ticket. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:08:57 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Gilmore, Warner tout energy policies]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Virginia's U.S. Senate hopefuls presented their energy policies yesterday and criticized each others' chance of easing escalating energy costs. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Charter-review panel considered]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[The Richmond City Council could order a wholesale review of the City Charter after nearly four years of constitutional clashes with Mayor L. Douglas Wilder.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[M. Warner: Restrict speculation, increase telecommuting]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Former Virginia governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Mark R. Warner this morning outlined his ideas for energy solutions. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:43:33 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Obama, McCain close in Va.]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama has gained ground in Virginia and is virtually tied with Sen. John McCain in an early indication of how competitive the state is shaping up to be this fall. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Rural voters seek candidates' attention]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[The rural vote could be pivotal in the November presidential election. But the candidates have yet to speak to the problems on most rural voters' minds, say rural advocates meeting in Washington this week.&#13;&#10;]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:09:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Bush to press for lifting of drilling ban]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[President Bush plans to make a renewed push today to get Congress to end the ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, echoing a call by GOP presidential candidate John McCain. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:09:52 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Obama vows to aid students; McCain offers energy plan]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama recalled paying off his own student loan debt and promised struggling college students yesterday that he would help them pay for school.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:09:45 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Gilmore says drilling in U.S. is best solution]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senate hopeful Jim Gilmore supports lifting the federal ban on offshore drilling, aligning himself with Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[McCain: Va. not a given]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[ARLINGTON -- Strong support in the Tidewater area won't be enough to win Virginia, John McCain acknowledged yesterday.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:09:52 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[McCain pushes offshore drilling]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain said yesterday that the federal moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling should be lifted, and states allowed to pursue energy exploration off their coasts. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:09:52 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Incumbent lacked necessary signatures ]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Three-term Richmond School Board incumbent Carol A.O. Wolf booted from this year's race by city registrar. Wolf submitted 140 signatures, but not all were from registered voters.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Kaine sounds upbeat on transportation bill]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Despite previous pronouncements by House Republican leaders that the plan will go nowhere, Kaine last night sounded optimistic that his proposal will not be dead on arrival.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Candidates for the Richmond City Council and the School Board races who will appear on the ballot in November.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:08:53 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Richmond native shoots an Obama music video]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[In the wee hours of a day in November 2007, the Lord spoke to Jerome Henderson about Barack Obama. Henderson woke at 2 a.m. and wrote an entire song that day. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:27:41 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Fundraising for their campaigns falls far short of their goals]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- House rank-and-file Republicans are tens of millions of dollars short of meeting fundraising targets before this fall's elections, according to figures circulating among the leadership. Most recent figures show that GOP lawmakers have brought $27 million into the coffers of the National Republican Congressional Committee in the past 17 months, far short of the target of about $58 million. Compounding the challenge, they will soon be asked to raise another $20 million or more to help candidates in selected battleground districts.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:09:52 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Va. case legalized interracial marriage]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-3rd, on Thursday marked the 41st anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling that struck down laws against interracial marriage. In the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia, the court ruled in favor of Mildred and Richard Loving of Caroline County. The ruling struck down laws against interracial marriage in Virginia and 15 others states.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:09:41 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Amega-issue in the Jim Gilmore-vs.-Mark Warner U.S. Senate slugfest could settle the continuing Democrat-vs.-Republican brawl over transportation funding: the car-tax rollback. ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Warner committed to Senate race]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[As Democrats convene, he disavows talk of being Obama's running mate.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Relentless TV host, sharp political analyst]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Tim Russert, the NBC News Washington bureau chief who was renowned for his tough questioning of politicians, died of a heart attack after collapsing at work yesterday. He was 58.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Pump pain for Va. government]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[State government is also choking on the rising prices at the pump. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine says rising fuel prices are not only costing the government more to operate but also will contribute to reduced revenues coming into state coffers.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:08:58 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said in Richmond yesterday that his vote for the recently passed farm bill was a tough vote, but the good in the bill outweighed the bad. Touring the Central Virginia Foodbank, Virginia's junior senator said the bill includes $500 million in added spending on federal food assistance programs for low-income people.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:08:54 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[Mitch Stewart engineered Obama's first major nomination victory as his Iowa caucus director last winter.]]></description>
						<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:17:01 -0400</pubDate>
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						<description><![CDATA[She ran afoul of state laws by not registering as political committee.]]></description>
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