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Virginia GOP Nominee We Must ‘Stand For An End To The Hyphenated American’
controversial Republican candidate for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, founded a socially conservative organization named Staying True To America’s National Destiny (STAND). Though the website has since been heavily scrubbed, a cached version from October 9, 2009 shows that Jackson’s group initially spelled out its ';Top 7 Issues';. The second most important issue, he ...
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Urban Alliance expanding to Northern Virginia calls for corporate partners
Over its 16-year history, the Urban Alliance has placed some 11,000 low-income D.C., Chicago and Baltimore youth in paid internships and curriculum training programs, preparing them for a life of productive learning and earning. This fall, the nonprofit will expand to Northern Virginia, where poverty is prevalent but cloaked in the region's wealth. But first, it will need corporate partners ...
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Amazon unit to expand in Fairfax Co. add 500 jobs
Amazon Web Services provides cloud computing services to business and government customers. On Tuesday the company announced it had received authority to operate under a government program designed to streamline cloud computing ...
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Witnesses in Md. and region report seeing meteor
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - A bright light seen traveling across the sky over the weekend by dozens of witnesses across Maryland and the region is what astronomers are calling a fragmenting meteoric ...
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Photos Men wearing werewolf masks rob Roanoke store
See all 8 photos » ROANOKE (AP) -- Roanoke police are searching for two robbers wearing werewolf masks who held up a convenience store. Surveillance photos show one man wearing a gray werewolf mask. Another man wore a brown werewolf mask. Roanoke police spokeswoman Aisha Johnson tells The Roanoke Times that one of the men pulled a gun on an employee at One Stop market, located in the ...
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2 infants among 10 kids killed in Oklahoma tornado
This aerial view shows an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday's tornado, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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IRS official Lerner I did nothing wrong
IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (AP ...
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Sauer to build $8M chiller plant for University of Virginia
Sauer Inc. of Jacksonville has won an $8 million chiller plant project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. The company will demolish about 2,200 tons of existing chillers and auxiliaries and build a plant to house a new chilled water system to serve the current load, a near-term expansion, and provide space for longer-range future load capacity, Sauer said in a news release. By ...
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Local prosecutor investigating Va. Gov. McDonnell
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Richmond's top prosecutor is looking into gifts to Gov. Bob McDonnell in an investigation requested by Attorney General Ken ...
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Fewer Virginians expected to travel during holiday
AAA Mid-Atlantic said Wednesday that it expects slightly more than 1 million Virginians to travel during the holiday weekend. That's down 1.6 percent from ...
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Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governor
Virginia 's next lieutenant governor could well be a man who has compared gay people to paedophiles and likened Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan, after state Republican Party officials selected Tea Party favourite EW Jackson as its ...
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Largest NC school district names 3 finalists
CARY, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's largest school district is picking a superintendent among three finalists from Texas, Virginia Beach, and the state's second-largest school ...
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Settlement addresses contamination at Va. site
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Land and groundwater use at a former circuit board manufacturing facility near Richmond will be restricted because of ...
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Man tries to give away puppies outside Va shelter
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- The Virginia Beach SPCA has taken in nine unweaned puppies that a man was trying to give away in the shelter's parking ...
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Police Off-duty deputy fatally shot man in fight
Police say the deputy and a 22-year-old man got into some sort of dispute and the 22-year-old man was shot. The man was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced ...
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How Far-Right Activists Like E.W. Jackson Took Over the Virginia GOP
E.W. Jackson /YouTube After dropping the last two presidential elections and the last three US Senate races, Virginia Republicans had good reason for optimism heading into this fall's elections: Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chair who bragged ...
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Warner introduces Chesapeake Bay accountability bill
The multi-year effort to clean up the bay involves at least 10 federal agencies, Virginia, West Virginia, four other states, the District of Columbia and more than 1,000 local ...
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Under scrutiny Va. govs mansion a dichotomy
FILE - In this Tuesday Jan. 31, 2006 file photo, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, gestures as he practices the Democratic response to the State of the Union in the Governor's Mansion at the Capitol in Richmond, ...
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W.Va.s local-food movement a model for Appalachia
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with food entrepreneurs are seeding a new kind of economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states.Officials with the Appalachian Regional Commission, the U.S. Department of ...
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Candidate for Lt. Governor Jackson demonstrates just how far Virginia has left
In it's absurd attempt to broaden the Republican Party's appeal (i.e., to individuals other than white males), the Virginia Republican Party nominated E.W. Jackson as their candidate for lieutenant governor. Jackson is a black minister, a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. This guy sounds like a perfect poster child of expanding Republican Party ...
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Chinese premier begins 2-day visit to Pakistan
A man walks next to huge portraits of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, left, displayed near the presidency in Islamabad, Pakistan. Keqiang will arrive in Islamabad on May 22 on a two day official visit to hold talks with Pakistani leadership to discuss international, regional issues and enhance co-operation in bilateral ties. (AP Photo/Anjum ...
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Virginia Beach to be linked to Norfolk with light rail
Virginia Beach may soon have a light rail link to Norfolk, which, along with Virginia Beach itself, is part of the commercial heart of the state. A light rail link between the two cities would have major benefits for commuters and local business, boosting the travel and tourism sector through increased accessibility.
Ever since The Tide, Norfolk’s light rail transit system, was first considered for construction in 1999, the possibility, or indeed the plan, of linking it to Virginia Beach has been talked of as well. The two cities are integral to one another as major commercial and tourism hubs and their joint development in a major state priority. Read more
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