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6 hrs ago | WTKR-TV Norfolk

As sniper's execution nears, terrifying memories return; 'I don't think any anybody felt safe'

When James D. Martin was shot dead on an early October evening seven years ago in the parking lot of a grocery store in Wheaton, a northern Washington suburb, it got little attention on the nightly news.

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Related Topix: Fredericksburg, VA, Ashland, VA

10 hrs ago | WTKR-TV Norfolk

Southwest Va vintners hope winery takes root

Rik and Melissa Obiso are living proof that wine is taking root in Montgomery County.

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Related Topix: Wine, Drink, 9, Agriculture, Science

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Roanoke Times

Editorial: Election hiccups in Montgomery County

Montgomery County election officials had several problems this year that demand further investigation.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Free Lance-Star

Sheriff recalls terror and intensity of case

Spotsylvania Sheriff Howard Smith remembers the day his county became part of the Beltway Sniper case.

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Related Topix: Spotsylvania, VA

Fri Nov 06, 2009

New River Valley Current

2 re-elected to Montgomery Co. School Board

The Montgomery County School Board will see just one new face joining it in January, as voters chose incumbents Phyllis Albritton in District A and Jamie Bond in District D. Bond has been on the board since 2005.

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Related Topix: Shawsville, VA

Wed Nov 04, 2009

New River Valley Current

Typo causes online error in Montgomery County School Board election result

A data-entry error that originated in Montgomery County caused the State Board of Elections to inaccurately report that Leonard Session won the District D seat on the Montgomery County School Board.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Fredericksburg.com

Women, bound by criminal acts, become friends

Three women, their voices softened by time, chose to be more than victims of a man who also killed a fourth woman.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

WSLS

Bedford Co. deputies make donation to Childs-Metzler reward fund

Local deputies make a donation to help bring the person or people responsible for the murders of Heidi Childs and David Metzler to justice.

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Related Topix: Bedford, VA, Bedford County, VA

Sat Oct 31, 2009

New River Valley Current

H1N1

Students at Elliston Lafayette Elementary School, Shawsville Elementary School and Christiansburg Primary School received vaccines against H1N1 this week.

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Related Topix: Shawsville, VA, Galax, VA

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Washington Business Journal

Montgomery Co. bonds get Fitch's AAA

Hundreds of millions of dollars in new county bonds to be issued next week by Montgomery County get Fitch Ratings' highest AAA rating.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

Southwest Times

Teacher faces more drug charges

A Radford City Public Schools teacher who is facing marijuana possession charges in Radford and Montgomery County had a felony charge filed against her Friday.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Radford, VA

Tue Oct 27, 2009

WDBJ7

Two months since the murders of Virginia Tech students Heidi Childs and David Metzler

Don Childs struggles daily with the innocence that his daughter, Heidi Childs and David Metzler went with to Caldwell Fields in Montgomery County this past August.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

WJLA-TV Arlington

County Considers Nutrition Labeling

A councilman introduced a bill in 2007 requiring restaurants with 10 or more facilities nationally to post information on their menus and menu boards in their Montgomery County locations.

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Related Topix: Life, Nutrition, Food, Offbeat

Sat Oct 24, 2009

WJLA-TV Arlington

Family of Missing Va. Tech Student Offers $100K Reward

The family of the missing Virginia Tech student is offering a $100,000 reward for the safe return of their daughter, Morgan Harrington, or information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Harrington's disappearance.

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Related Topix: Offbeat

Fri Oct 23, 2009

WDBJ7

Blacksburg police officer faces charges of sexual battery & domestic assault

A Blacksburg police officer faces charges of sexual battery and domestic assault.

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Related Topix: Blacksburg, VA

Thu Oct 22, 2009

WHSV-TV Harrisonburg

VA Clinic to Restrict Vaccine Availability this Weekend

Montgomery County residents lined up overnight in a queue that stretched several blocks hoping to get H1N1 flu vaccinations.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Fairfax County, VA

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Clinch Valley News

Substance abuse impacts foster care in county

Substance abuse touches all areas of today's society. Nowhere is its impact more widely felt than in child service programs - particularly foster care.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Roanoke Times

100 years later, visit still resonates - roanoke.com

One hundred years ago this summer, on the Friday afternoon of June 25, 1909, residents of the New River Valley joined the faculty and students of Christiansburg Industrial Institute in welcoming noted black educator Booker T. Washington to its Cambria campus.

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Related Topix: Christiansburg, VA, Norfolk, VA, US Politics, US News

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Students Walk for Homeless

It was an out-of-the-ordinary recess Monday afternoon, Oct. 12, as students at Potomac Elementary dedicated their daily break from studies to the homeless.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

New River Valley Current

Blacksburg man charged with taking unlawful photos

A Blacksburg man has been charged with the unlawful photographing of another person after police say he took an inappropriate picture of a woman on a Blacksburg Transit bus.

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