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3 hrs ago | E! Online - Celebrity News

Miley Cyrus' Tour Bus in Deadly Crash

One person is dead and at least one more suffered minor injuries after Miley Cyrus ' tour bus crashed and flipped onto its side in Virginia this morning.

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Related Topix: Miley Cyrus, Julia Roberts

8 hrs ago | WRVA-AM Richmond

AUDIO: Analyzing Virginia's Mexican Population

Sixty percent of Mexicans living in Virginia are actually American citizens. Mexicans living in Virginia also are more likely to have a job than Virginians overall.

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Related Topix: Virginia Government, University of Virginia

16 hrs ago | WTVR Richmond

Countdown to Statewide Restaurant Smoking Ban

Below is a press release from the Virginia Department of Health on the upcoming statewide smoking ban: VDH COMMISSIONER ASKS VIRGINIANS TO SUPPORT THE COMMONWEALTH BREATHE EASY CHALLENGE To celebrate the upcoming ban on smoking in restaurants, Virginia's Health Commissioner today called on Virginians to show their support for the new law and local ...

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Virginia Government

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Danville Register Bee

Virginia facing $3.5 billion shortfall in next budget

Virginia lawmakers learned today that they have a $3.5 billion hole to fill in the next two-year budget as well an estimated $209 million shortfall in the current spending plan.

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WCAV

Trustee: 154 Salmonella Claims Filed

A bankruptcy trustee says claims have been filed for 154 people who say they were sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced to a Virginia peanut company.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy

WJLA

Kaine Pressured on Felons' Rights

Civil rights organizations are asking Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to sign an executive order restoring the rights of nearly 300,000 felons before he leaves office in January.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, Virginia Government, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Byrd soars to new heights

On a slow Friday in March of 1980, then-Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd saw his granddaughter and her schoolmates in the spectators' gallery and decided to give them a lesson with a lengthy impromptu speech on the history of the Senate.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, Robert Byrd, Virginia Government, West Virginia, West Virginia Government

WHSV

VDOT Prioritizes Road Projects

Virginia transportation officials are moving hundreds of millions of dollars from secondary and urban road projects to higher priority Interstate and primary highways.

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Related Topix: Virginia Government

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Wheeling News

Honoring Byrd For His Service

One of the top priorities of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., has been to represent his fellow West Virginians to the best of his ability in Washington.

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Related Topix: West Virginia, Virginia Government, West Virginia Government

WTVR Richmond

Health officials: avoid eating Lake Gaston walleye

Virginia and North Carolina health officials are advising against consuming walleye fish caught in Lake Gaston because of mercury contamination.

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Related Topix: North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Virginia Government

McClatchy DC

Commentary: Trusts would protect taxpayers' investment

The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Tuesday, Nov. 17: Historically, government has a lousy record of running businesses.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, Virginia Government, Republican, Bob Corker

CulpeperNews.com, Culpeper, VA

Virginia budget outlook poor; shortfall could grow

The bad economy will result in another $250 million to $300 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30, House of Delegates money committees were told Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Virginia Government

Tue Nov 17, 2009

CulpeperNews.com, Culpeper, VA

Va. may need to cut another $300 million from two-year budget

The state of Virginia, which already has had to cut $6 billion from the two-year budget ending June 30, 2010, may have to cut $250 million to $300 million, the House Appropriations Committee was told today.

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Hampton Roads, Virginia, news, sports...

Webb and Warner pen note to FEMA...

Virginia Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner are pressing federal officials to release disaster aid in the wake of last week's powerful nor'easter that rocked Hampton Roads.

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Related Topix: FEMA, US News, Weather, Hampton, VA, Norfolk, VA, Newport News, VA

Journal Messenger

Information about Virginiaa s electric chair

Virginia inmate Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to become the first Virginia inmate to die by electrocution since 2006.

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Related Topix: Virginia Government, Death Penalty, Greensville Correctional Center, State Prisons, Prison, Jarratt, VA

WCAV

2 Va. Natives on Atlantis Crew Working on Space Station

Space shuttle Atlantis is circling Earth with two Virginia natives on board. Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the International Space Station on Wednesday.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch

Va. House Democratic caucus elects leaders

The Virginia House of Delegates' Democratic caucus has elected new leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session.

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Related Topix: Virginia Government

Mon Nov 16, 2009

PilotOnline.com

Del. Phil Hamilton resigns from Virginia General Assembly

Loading... Del. Phil Hamilton, R-Newport News, speaks during a House Finance Committee meeting at the Capitol in Richmond in 2004.

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Related Topix: Newport News, VA

PilotOnline.com

Ex-Army worker to be electrocuted Tuesday for killing Va. couple

A former Army counterintelligence worker from Maryland who was convicted of gunning down a northern Virginia couple to win the love of a former stripper is set to become the first inmate to die of electrocution since 2006.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Death Penalty

The Heartland Institute

Citizen Journalism: Charter Schools in Virginia

Does the Virginia gubernatorial victory handed Republican Robert F. McDonnell mean that voters support his education agenda? Voters and school-choice advocates won't know the answer until after the General Assembly convenes in January and the governor-elect is sworn in.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Virginia Government, Fairfax County, VA

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