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          <title>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on tap today in Culpeper</title>
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Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on tap today in Culpeper           ]]></description>
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          <title>Liberty or death</title>
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On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, setting the 13 American colonies on the road to freedom from British rule.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pizza Hut reopening soon</title>
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Renovation done but no word on when it will be back in business           ]]></description>
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          <title>Palin&#8217;s post&#45;gubernatorial plans remain a mystery</title>
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Former GOP Vice Presidential candidate announces she&#8217;s stepping down by the end of the month           ]]></description>
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          <title>Business owners: Fireworks sales still strong</title>
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Fireworks sales still strong despite economy, say business owners           ]]></description>
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          <title>CSE offices closed today</title>
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The offices of the Culpeper Star-Exponent will be closed today in observation of the Independence Day holiday. The offices will reopen Monday.            ]]></description>
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          <title>New marker traces Lafayette&#8217;s steps through Wilderness</title>
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A new historical marker in Orange County will tell the story of Marquis de Lafayette&#8217;s maneuvers in Virginia during 1781.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man faces 20&#45;year term for Belle Court stabbing</title>
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Woman spent nine days in hospital after attack at apartment last summer           ]]></description>
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          <title>County&#8217;s building&#45;permit rate slows down</title>
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According to Culpeper County government records, building permits are being issued, though at a substantially slower rate than in years past.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ongoing uncertainty</title>
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But the local housing industry is showing signs of recovery           ]]></description>
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          <title>Merillat recognized for &#8220;environmental excellence&#8221;</title>
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Local cabinet plant earns award from DEQ            ]]></description>
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          <title>Court finds man guilty of stabbing woman</title>
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Culpeper man convicted of stabbing woman in 2008           ]]></description>
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          <title>Celebrate July 4th in Culpeper</title>
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A full day of patriotic fun is on deck as Culpeper celebrates the nation&#8217;s 233rd birthday on Saturday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Easier to cross at Main and Davis streets</title>
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It just got a bit easier for pedestrians to cross the busy downtown intersection at Main and Davis streets.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Mission Gratitude at car and bike show</title>
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Mission Gratitude will join Culpeper Renaissance at Culpeper&#8217;s annual Car and Bike Show on July 4,&nbsp; from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. near the Depot.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
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          <title>Hearing set for July 27 in Wilderness battle</title>
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A July 27 public hearing is scheduled in Orange County on a Wal-Mart Supercenter proposed near the Wilderness Civil War battlefield.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Town tinkers with tap fee timeline</title>
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New policy would limit reservation length for pre-paid utility connections           ]]></description>
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          <title>Madison Town Council to revisit multi&#45;use zoning downtown</title>
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The ordinance revision, which has been discussed for years, seemed to be nearing a vote in April when council members decided not to act on the issue           ]]></description>
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          <title>Judge halts man&#8217;s opening statement, orders mental exam</title>
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Mark Dowdy, 37, stands accused of putting a suspicious powder on the back of signs calling for a boycott of his former employer, Klockner Pentaplast           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dump truck overturns; no injuries reported</title>
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A Culpeper man escaped injury Tuesday morning after his dump truck overturned on U.S. 522 in the Winston area.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Final salute</title>
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On South Main Street Tuesday morning, volunteer firefighters from Culpeper and Orange counties draped an American flag from two ladder trucks to honor James O. Weakley Jr., a 43-year member of Culpeper Co. 1.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Town seeks $1.9M from Feds</title>
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Some council members have doubts about housing program           ]]></description>
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          <title>Local jobless rate on the rise</title>
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Unemployment up a notch in May for Virginia and Culpeper           ]]></description>
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          <title>Deeds to visit Culpeper</title>
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds will visit Culpeper July 4, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday evening.           ]]></description>
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          <title>201 pot plants discovered in Louisa home</title>
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Police: It&#8217;s &#8220;one of the best&#8221; marijuana operations &#8220;we&#8217;ve ever seen&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dump truck overturns, no injuries</title>
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No injuries after dump truck overturns on U.S. 522           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sewage runneth over</title>
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Town plant loses power to pump station, spills 84,000 gallons           ]]></description>
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          <title>Early morning wreck sends three Reston residents to the hospital</title>
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A Reston woman was transported to an area hospital following a single-vehicle wreck on U.S. 29 near Brandy early Monday morning that left her trapped underneath a minivan.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sweet Freedom&#8217;s Song</title>
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London-linked America came to the Charlottesville Pavilion Saturday night, and it was quite the hippie trip.           ]]></description>
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Sophie&#8217;s restaurant will host a ribbon-cutting event at 110 E. Davis St. today at 4 p.m. Organizers will serve light refreshments following the ceremony.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The Week in Pictures, June 22&#45;29</title>
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The Week in Pictures, June 22-29           ]]></description>
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          <title>Report: Illegal immigration costs Va. $625 per household</title>
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Advocacy group FAIR tries to pin down a number that others have found elusive           ]]></description>
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          <title>Town to sign off on $1.9M housing grant application</title>
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If approved, town plans to buy, rehab and resell foreclosed homes           ]]></description>
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          <title>No texting behind the wheel starting today</title>
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Those who text or e-mail while driving can receive a $20 fine or $50 for a second offense           ]]></description>
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          <title>Buy a smoothie, support Leaves for Learning</title>
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Program for needy children asks for community&#8217;s support           ]]></description>
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          <title>Michael Jackson&#8217;s mother files petition to keep his children</title>
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A court document says Michael Jackson&#8217;s mother, Katherine, has filed for guardianship of the singer&#8217;s three children.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison</title>
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Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.            ]]></description>
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A Virginia soldier stationed at Fort Wainwright has been awarded the Soldier&#8217;s Medal for rescuing a comrade trapped in a Stryker vehicle that rolled into an Iraqi canal. 
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Michael Jackson&#8217;s mother, Katherine, is taking care of the singer&#8217;s three children and the family will go to court Monday in part to protect her rights to custody, the family&#8217;s spokesman said Monday. 
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 Despite decades of educational campaigns, bolstered warnings and other federal actions, acetaminophen continues to be the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. 
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A college student who survived a shooting that killed his mother and brother told police his father lured him to the family&#8217;s house in southwest Virginia. 
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The James Madison Museum is displaying one of only five portraits of the fourth president painted from life. 
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he&#8217;s not quitting &#8212; even though he considered it &#8212; despite intense scrutiny and criticism over his admitted affair with a woman from Argentina.

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Impressionist Fred Travalena, a headliner in Vegas showrooms and a regular on late-night talk shows with his takes on presidents, crooners and screen stars, has died in Los Angeles. He was 66. 
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Oil prices hovered above $69 a barrel Monday in Asia as traders look to macroeconomic indicators this week for signs of improvement in the U.S. economy. 
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Through electronic means and improved collaboration, streamlining the application process for business licenses, certificates of occupancy and building permits is very doable, Culpeper County Director of Planning John Egertson told the Town-County Interaction Committee last week.           ]]></description>
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Herndon Chevrolet and Reynolds Pontiac-Cadillac-GMC-Buick-Subaru, both in the Town of Orange, are among the survivors of what&#8217;s become known to GM dealerships as Black Friday.           ]]></description>
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State police responded to an accident on Richards Ferry Road around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.            ]]></description>
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A section of Culpeper was without power Saturday night for nearly six hours.           ]]></description>
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Culpeper Town Police officers investigated a disturbance Sunday morning on East Davis Street.            ]]></description>
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Area students earn Congressional awards           ]]></description>
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During tough economical times, the tendency is to hold on to what is stable and not take many risks. But Marjorie Dulaney saw an opportunity to open her own shop of fantasy art.           ]]></description>
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Recent arrests made by the Culpeper Town Police Department and the Culpeper County Sheriff&#8217;s Office           ]]></description>
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Foundation is gearing up for a July 4 open house           ]]></description>
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A Culpeper man was transported to Fauquier Hospital for non-life threatening injuries Saturday after his motorcycle ran off of the road and into some trees near the intersection of Oak Shade Road and Little Fork Church Road.           ]]></description>
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Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50. 
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JBS Swift Beef Co. of Greeley, Colo., is voluntarily expanding its beef recall to include about 380,000 pounds of products because of possible E. coli contamination. 
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A gunman fired into a group of people outside a pizza restaurant where a motorcycle club was holding a fundraising event, killing three people and wounding seven. 
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General Motors Corp. has agreed to take on responsibility for future product liability claims, removing what could have been a sizable roadblock on the automaker&#8217;s path to a quick sale of its assets and emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a new company. 
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The cardiologist who was with Michael Jackson during the pop star&#8217;s final moments sat down with investigators for three hours to explain his actions, and his spokeswoman says he is not a suspect. 
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Two teens escaped serious injury Friday afternoon after the car they were in overturned.           ]]></description>
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As kids and families sat around a small campfire behind the Museum of Culpeper History Friday, Lee Langston-Harrison, executive director of the museum, led the group in a song about the dinosaurs that roamed Culpeper long ago.           ]]></description>
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Area private schools feel the pinch of sluggish economy           ]]></description>
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Family, attorney say 2006 incident demonstrates Remington man&#8217;s irresponsibility, lack of concern           ]]></description>
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DC transit agency resumes full service after fatal Monday train crash           ]]></description>
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Local women escape serious injury in Friday car-related incidents           ]]></description>
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Charges against a Boston, Va., woman alleging cruelty to horses have been dropped, court records show.           ]]></description>
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is criticizing Orange County planners for approving a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Civil War battlefield.            ]]></description>
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Company says declining sales forced cutbacks           ]]></description>
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Manney refused reinstatement, cannot practice medicine at walk-in clinic           ]]></description>
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Culpeper Baptist Church uses Vacation Bible School to reach families           ]]></description>
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Goats trot along wooden boards as high as 15-feet up at country store           ]]></description>
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With summer officially here, it&#8217;s a great time to mix up a fun and fruity pitcher of Sangria.           ]]></description>
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A Culpeper native has returned to the area with a business offering complete design, installation, and landscape maintenance services. 
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Retailer one step closer to supercenter near Wilderness Battlefield           ]]></description>
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Windmore Children&#8217;s Theater set to perform Rodgers and Hammerstein classic at EVHS           ]]></description>
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          <title>Gala nets $88K for cancer center at Culpeper Regional Hospital</title>
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Culpeper Regional Hospital&#8217;s Ocean&#8217;s of Hope Foundation charity gala raised $88,000 last month, and the proceeds will soon help fund state-of-the-art cancer therapy equipment for the new Culpeper Cancer Center.           ]]></description>
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Cousin: Friends, family still shocked, devastated by death           ]]></description>
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Leave a comment on how Michael Jackson affected your life.            ]]></description>
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The &#8220;King of Pop&#8221; who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world&#8217;s most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world&#8217;s most disturbing celebrity, has died. He was 50.
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Farrah Fawcett has died in a Los Angeles hospital. She was 62.

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Cousin: Family, friends still shocked, devastated           ]]></description>
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Has the National Transportation Safety Board become the government&#8217;s &#8220;I-told-you-so&#8221; agency? 

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A new tourist center will open on Route 29 South in Ruckersville within weeks.           ]]></description>
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As Shahnaz Ghassemi walked amid the protesters in Tehran, the Albemarle County resident passed a woman holding up a poem, shielding her face, fingers painted with green nail polish curled around the paper&#8217;s edges.           ]]></description>
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Two local businesses partner with museum to digitize historical photos           ]]></description>
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Riot police in Iran&#8217;s capital fired tear gas and bullets in the air Wednesday in clashes with protesters who converged on a square near the parliament building in defiance of government orders to halt demonstrations demanding a new presidential election, witnesses said.            ]]></description>
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A 15-year-old Culpeper boy may be held in state custody for up to three years for his role in the robbery of a local youth pastor last year, a judge ruled Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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A head-on collision late Tuesday night on U.S. 29 near Reva sent two people to the hospital, authorities say.           ]]></description>
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Davies says construction costs may come in well under budget           ]]></description>
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A gunman shot and killed a prominent Iowa high school football coach in the school&#8217;s weight room early Wednesday and was taken into custody shortly afterward, authorities said. 
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Seventy schoolchildren will have a permanent role in telling the story of John Brown&#8217;s 1859 raid on an arsenal in Harpers Ferry.           ]]></description>
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Fees to drive on the Dulles Toll Road will probably double in three years to help pay for the Metro $5 billion expansion in northern Virginia, officials said Tuesday. 
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Federal investigators planned to test the automated controls for Metro trains for the first time Wednesday, looking to see why the computerized system designed to prevent such disasters failed. 
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was expected back at work Wednesday after a five-day absence for what aides said was a hiking trip that turned into more of a fuss than he ever expected. 
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Home sales in the Northeast declined more than 13 percent in May from year-ago levels, the worst showing in the country, as the specter of job losses loomed over the region. 
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Senate Republicans are questioning whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor could be counted upon to uphold the Constitution on the Supreme Court. 
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Verified Identity Pass, a company that promised to speed passengers through airport security checkpoints for an annual fee, has shut down, leaving some frequent fliers looking for options to avoid long screening lines and wondering what will happen to the personal information and money they gave the company. 
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Man aims to serve all faiths with new funeral establishment           ]]></description>
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