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          <title>Lorie Smith announce re&#45;election bid</title>
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Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith this morning formally announced her bid for re-election as the city&#8217;s Ward D representative.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bomb hoax suspect charged</title>
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An Afton man turned himself over to police today, after a pipe bomb hoax situation on Delphine Avenue led to a felony charge.           ]]></description>
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          <title>$3.5B gap in budget to haunt  localities</title>
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PORTSMOUTH &#8212; Local governments aren&#8217;t likely to escape the pain when the General Assembly attempts to eliminate an estimated $3.5 billion hole in the next two-year budget. 

That estimate does not include the losses faced by local school districts to replace federal stimulus money that will dwindle next year and then disappear entirely in the second year of the budget.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:01:57 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Leaders  to tackle  plight of River City</title>
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A top Shenandoah Valley economic development official plans to meet with state leaders after Thanksgiving to address immediate and long-term job needs in Waynesboro.

Robin Sullenberger, CEO of the Shenandoah Valley Partnership, said Thursday that he had already discussed this week&#8217;s announcement of 110 layoffs at Invista&#8217;s Waynesboro plant and other recent job losses in the city with the Virginia Manufacturers Association.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Suited up</title>
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Kate Collins students get &#8216;once in a lifetime&#8217; history lesson           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:01:36 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Thoughts on answers</title>
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Cars, executions and jobs have been in the news lately. Their relationship in this column is by happenstance. The order in which I chose to discuss them is based on their spelling (alphabetical).

The latest car advertisements, especially the Japanese ones, are touting how far manufacturers have come in converting and improving their hybrid (combined gasoline and electric fueled) models.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A lonely, lost stand</title>
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Meet Nancy Dowdy, contortionist. Risking pulled muscles where she didn&#8217;t know she had them, the Waynesboro councilwoman says she supports a stormwater project in perennially soaked Wayne Hills &#8211; an area she represents &#8211; but opposes spending money on that now because she wants the city to build a West End fire station later. Understand? That&#8217;s OK. Nobody else gets it either.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Police briefs_11/20</title>
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n Authorities charged Kimberly Anne Knight, 45, and John Timothy Swearengin, 45, with trespassing after Staunton police found them in an abandoned house in the 300 block of Green Street. Authorities also charged Swearengin with two counts of defrauding an innkeeper and one count of obstruction of justice. Almost a month before his arrest, Swearengin ate a meal at the Mill Street Grill without paying, authorities said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:01:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>W&#8217;boro woman gets 7 years</title>
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Judge hands down sentence for starvation, abuse           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Revenue dip reflects shot to consumer pocketbooks</title>
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RICHMOND &#8212; Virginians are taking home less pay, spending less in stores and are still getting hit on their investments, new state tax collection statistics show. 

Business profits are up sharply, according to the statistics, but with retail sales lagging, when that will translate into new hiring and investment is still unclear, economists say.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Police seeking credit card thief</title>
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Authorities in Staunton are looking for an unidentified white male suspected of stealing a credit card at Wal-Mart Nov. 14.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Sentencing today in neglect case</title>
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For seven months Billiejo Marie King trapped a teen girl in a room and deprived her of food.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Man pleads to mushroom charges</title>
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The man charged in Waynesboro&#8217;s largest mushroom bust pleaded guilty in circuit court Wednesday to possessing and distributing the psychedelic drug, which police found stored in more than 100 jars in his apartment.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:57 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Stormwater project might take West End fire substation funds</title>
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An ongoing discussion of how to proceed with referendum-approved projects boiled over during a Waynesboro City Council work session Wednesday night.

Council members recently received legal advice about their ability to move bond money between projects that residents voted on in a 2007 city referendum.

Mayor Tim Williams proposed that $1.2 million borrowed to create a West End fire substation instead be used for a Wayne Hills stormwater project that is moving along faster than the proposed station.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Addict robber cries for mercy; judge unmoved</title>
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A Waynesboro man cried for mercy in circuit court Wednesday after pleading guilty to robbing a gas station.

&#8220;I know what I pled guilty to doing wrong,&#8221; Kenneth Marsella Reynolds told Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. &#8220;I&#8217;m an addict &#8211; I&#8217;m not here to make anyone mad, I just pray to God. Have a little mercy on me today. Your honor, I will never be in your courtroom again.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Streetscape advances</title>
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City to seek federal grant after session           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police brief_11/19</title>
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Staunton police arrested Jeremy Kirk Pope, 29, of Staunton on charges he stole a television and printer from a city residence. Pope, described by authorities as one of their &#8220;Frequent Flyers,&#8221; has been arrested more than a dozen times in the past three years for various charges including: public intoxication, urinating in public and larceny. In March Pope pleaded guilty to charges of assault and batter and for assaulting a law enforcement officer            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Baby&#45;shaking case results in 1&#45;year sentence</title>
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Both attorneys listened to the defendant and agreed. Krista Shay Chandler told her story and they believed her remorse. But consequences could not be ignored.

Chandler, 21, appeared before a Waynesboro Circuit Court judge Wednesday, ready to be sentenced for abusing her boyfriend&#8217;s toddler in April 2008.

More than 10 supporters attended her hearing, and uttered words of encouragement after Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. sentenced Chandler to one year in prison and three years of supervised probation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Invista eliminates 110 jobs</title>
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Housing slump dogging city industries           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Budget woes headline legislative breakfast in Staunton</title>
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STAUNTON &#8211; Two veteran Shenandoah Valley legislators are prepared to sharpen the budget axe for the 2010 General Assembly.

The legislators discussed the sobering news that Virginia is facing a projected shortfall of nearly $3 billion over the next two years during an area legislative breakfast Wednesday at Bentley Commons in Staunton.           ]]></description>
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          <title>BREAKING NEWS: Invista announces layoff of 110 in Waynesboro</title>
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Invista announces new round of lay offs           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man sentenced for Shell stickup</title>
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A Waynesboro man cried for mercy in circuit court today, after pleading guilty to robbing a local gas station.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:14:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack with guns</title>
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Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Unemployment picture mixed</title>
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Unemployment fell in Waynesboro in September, but rose slightly in both Augusta County and Staunton, according to statistics released Tuesday by the Virginia Employment Commission.

Waynesboro&#8217;s rate dropped to 8.2 percent in September compared to 8.5 percent in August.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Filmed sex act leads to guilty plea</title>
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A Stuarts Draft man will serve three years&#8217; probation for paying a teenage girl to perform oral sex on him as he videotaped the act.

Wayne Edward Gill, 39, pleaded guilty late Monday in a deal with Staunton prosecutors to avoid jail time. The court ordered Gill to register as a sex offender.

Gill paid a 17-year-old R.E. Lee High School student $300 to film her performing the act earlier this year in a Staunton auto body shop. The girl was seeking to pay drug debts, authorities have said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Midweek briefing</title>
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Index nips now, chomps later

A fireplug of a fellow, Tracy Pyles is accustomed to playing the part of a yapping hound on a tight leash. Having ignored his barks about a bureaucratic bedevilment known as the composite index, Augusta County supervisors now are feeling the bite of the thing at their backsides, and so the people&#8217;s.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Free tax prep to aid low&#45;income earners</title>
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Alarmed by the number of low-income workers missing out on income tax credits and paying for tax preparation, the area&#8217;s Community Action Partnership this week begins lessons that will lead to a free preparation program.
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          <title>Police brief_11/18</title>
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A three-vehicle crash along U.S. 11 and Captain Hizer Lane stopped traffic Tuesday morning after a Fort Defiance High School student braked for a loose dog, authorities said. 

Daniel Whitson, 29, of Grottoes, smashed his vehicle into the back of the student&#8217;s car, jack-knifing the trailer he was hauling into an oncoming vehicle.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Tea partiers gain steam in the area</title>
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Buoyed by a wave of small-government enthusiasm after a march on Washington earlier this year, the region&#8217;s tea party movement is sweeping up new acolytes even as controversy swirls around a group deeper South, area organizers said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia set to electrocute 2001 killer of couple</title>
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A former Army counterintelligence worker from Maryland who killed a northern Virginia couple in 2001 was scheduled Tuesday to become the first U.S. inmate to die by electrocution since last year.           ]]></description>
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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.           ]]></description>
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A Stuarts Draft man who solicited a teen girl for oral sex avoided jail time as part of a plea agreement with the Staunton prosecutors office.           ]]></description>
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Authorities say they found a Staunton home inhabited by 100 birds with 19 more dead in a freezer, floors littered with piles of feces and carpets stained by urine.           ]]></description>
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Michael Mason killed his ex-girlfriend with a single gunshot fired at her head from close range.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama stumbles on health care, spending and terrorism. It&#8217;s time for him to reconsider and recalibrate.           ]]></description>
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John Franklin Myers shot his girlfriend in a gravel driveway outside the mobile home where they&#8217;d lived for seven tumultuous months.           ]]></description>
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Crews using four cranes swap old Delphine Avenue span for a new one as a crowd of onlookers watch the action.           ]]></description>
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State Labor Department opens investigation into death of Greenville man pinned by a forklift at a Lynchburg food distribution plant.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to send damage assessment teams to Virginia following last week&#8217;s wind-driven rain storm.           ]]></description>
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By Bob Stuart

The News Virginian

More than half of Virginia voters favor alternatives to public schools and want school-choice changes such as charter schools, tax-credit scholarships and school vouchers, according to study results to be released today.

The survey of 1,203 likely Virginia voters was taken last month for Virginia-based organizations by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice of Indianapolis.

Fifty-five percent of those surveyed want choices other than regular K-12 public schools and nearly two-thirds favor tax credits for scholarships.

&#8220;This shows a healthy appetite for increased parental choice and increased state support,&#8221; said Jeff Caruso, executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference, the public policy organization for both Virginia Catholic dioceses.

Caruso said it is important for parents to have choices for their children since &#8220;they know what environment is best.&#8221;

Retiring House District 20 Del. Chris Saxman said the survey participants support public education but want choices for children.

&#8220;The system works well in higher education,&#8221; said Saxman of the menu of choices for Virginia college students. 

While there were gaps in knowledge about school alternatives, the principal researcher on the survey said there were strong sentiments as well.

Paul DiPerna, research director for the Friedman Foundation, said a little less than half of those surveyed were aware of school vouchers and charter schools.

But DiPerna was impressed that nearly two-thirds of the survey participants expressed support for tax credit scholarships.

Under that proposal, private donors and organizations who donate money for scholarships would be given tax credits.

The money would be put in a pool to allow low and middle-income students in a state like Indiana to attend a private school on a scholarship.

Saxman for years has introduced tax credits for scholarships legislation in the Virginia Legislature to allow school choice.

While his legislation has passed the Virginia House, it has stalled in the Senate.

Under Saxman&#8217;s bill, the students could use the donated scholarship money to attend private or other public schools of their choice.

&#8220;Some kids need a change in their environment,&#8221; he said.

Another finding that surprised DiPerna was a question regarding the challenges facing public schools. 

He expected to see funding, accountability or perhaps classroom overcrowding top the list.

Leading the list at 21 percent were issues schools have with student discipline and self-control.

The survey also found support among Democrats, Republicans and independents for tax-credit scholarships and school vouchers.

Caruso said educating children is not a political, ideological or religious issue.

&#8220;We are all partners in educating the commonwealth&#8217;s children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is a collaboration.&#8221;

Christian Braunlich, vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, one of the survey sponsors, said a copy of the study will go to every Virginia General Assembly member prior to the 2010 session.

Braunlich said the survey results would also go to Virginia business associations and a wide range of opinion leaders.

Saxman, who will be watching from outside the General Assembly for the first time in eight years in January, is optimistic there will be more school choice.

&#8220;I think this year we will get some charter schools. They are in demand around the commonwealth,&#8221; he said.            ]]></description>
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When Lindsey Megginson thinks of her husband, she remembers an unwavering smile, laughter with family and the couple&#8217;s last kiss, just before sunrise.           ]]></description>
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Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell supports charter schools. So does President Barack Obama, who discussed them with McDonnell during a brief chat the day after McDonnell&#8217;s victory.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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For right-wing Republicans, the presidency of George W. Bush began as a dream come true.           ]]></description>
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Overall U.S. spending on health care would rise as a result of legislation approved a week ago by the House of Representatives, according to a report by a top official at the agency that oversees the government&#8217;s health insurance programs for the elderly and indigent.           ]]></description>
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Politicians may be divided on health care reform, but a consensus has formed among senior citizens: they find the 1,900-page House bill so confusing that many doubt proposed Medicare changes can even be explained.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:07:17 EST</pubDate>
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STAUNTON &#8211; Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte has joined Virginia U.S. Sen. Jim Webb in criticizing the Obama administration&#8217;s decision to try 9/11 terrorists in U.S. courts.

&#8220;They should be put before a military tribunal not in our civil criminal courts in the United States,&#8217;&#8217; said Goodlatte, R-Va., following Saturday&#8217;s Veterans Day Parade in Staunton.

Goodlatte said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accomplices in the 9/11 attacks in New York are &#8220;terrorists who are engaging in a militaristic type behavior.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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The chairman of the Danville TEA Party Patriots said Sunday he was unsure about whether the group will continue with its planned effigy burning of Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a bonfire rally Saturday in Blairs           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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Officials: Data showing holes in Waynesboro core will help fill gaps.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:46 EST</pubDate>
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Veterans parade comes to Staunton           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:44 EST</pubDate>
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RICHMOND &#8212; The hits keep coming for Virginia&#8217;s financially strapped school divisions. 

The Virginia Department of Education recently recalculated the composite index for the 2010 and 2011 school years, which determines how much money each school system receives annually from the state.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE &#8212; Nearly a year after terrorist bullets snuffed the life forces of her husband and daughter, Nelson County resident Kia Scherr hopes her new Web site will help other people find positive forces in their own lives.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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My truck may be a time machine. 

Whatever you do, don&#8217;t tell any shadowy government agencies. I don&#8217;t want square-jawed men in suits and sunglasses with tiny wires coming out of their ears whisking us away to an undisclosed location to kick the tires, check under the hood and interrogate me using &#8220;persuasive methods&#8221; previously awarded the Dick Cheney Seal of Approval. 

&#8220;Where did you get the time machine, son?&#8221;            ]]></description>
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Among his ideological brethren, many of whom reside in this town, Frank Lucente&#8217;s rasp is coated with cordiality as a safeguard against giving offense and taking it in response to criticism. These contrasts in tones frequently are heard here from Waynesboro&#8217;s vice mayor in the aftermath of this space being occupied with an assessment of the city&#8217;s shortcomings. And so rise conundrums.           ]]></description>
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Since the Fort Hood shooting I have been asking students what they thought about it and why they had those particular thoughts. Were they thinking about it through the filters of their family&#8217;s values, the teachings of their religion, personal experiences they had had or the experiences of people they knew? Who and what was influencing them?            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE &#8212; State police announced Friday that they think Morgan D. Harrington was trying to hitchhike on a Copeley Road bridge the night she disappeared, which her father said isn&#8217;t something she&#8217;d normally do.            ]]></description>
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Three months into a new job as president of Blue Ridge Community College, John Downey is leading an institution that continues to receive record enrollment and now has career coaches to reach out to local schools and industry.           ]]></description>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Armed with scales and gem testers and magnifying glasses, Eddie Lambert and his team of four assessed everything from ticking pocket watches to little toy firetrucks.           ]]></description>
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CHARLOTTESVILLE &#8212; An Albemarle County jury awarded $5.25 million on Friday to the parents and sibling of a 16-year-old county girl who was killed in a car accident in 2008. 
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today that the effects of a storm system that battered Hampton Roads are easing and that flooding in western Virginia and elsewhere may not be reach levels that had been feared.           ]]></description>
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LYNCHBURG &#8212; Heavy rainfall that fell on the area over the past two days should abate Friday after causing closed roads, downed trees, cresting rivers and at least one fatality.

The weather is blamed in the death of an Amherst County man early Thursday on Virginia 56 in Nelson County &#8212; one of three weather-related fatalities statewide.

Alger H. Fleming, 66, died after he was hit by a tractor-trailer carrying logs.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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All three area school districts will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in state cuts in basic aid starting next year because of an increase in their respective composite indexes.

The superintendents of Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County Schools say they are working on strategies to deal with the cuts, and hope to minimize the impact on teaching positions and instructional programs.           ]]></description>
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STAUNTON &#8212; City officials will apply for federal funds to hire six firefighters.

The Staunton City Council voted unanimously Thursday to apply for a Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant, which at $527,892 would cover the costs of salaries for the firefighters for two years.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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Demonstrating the kind of dexterity one finds only in politicians and yoga masters, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine ventured Monday to Harrisonburg to administer pats, to his back principally and others&#8217; perfunctorily. Ensuring the bipartisan nature of the ritual, Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, joined Kaine at the  event marking the grand opening of SRI International, the research and development institute and presumed provider of economic salvation to the Valley.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:43 EST</pubDate>
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VERONA &#8211; A legal representative of the Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad told Augusta County supervisors Thursday that the squad would like to administer its own revenue recovery plan.           ]]></description>
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STAUNTON &#8212; The Staunton City Council on Thursday night outlined the process by which they will replace outgoing Councilman Dickie Bell, who this month won the House District 20 delegate seat.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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STAUNTON &#8212; An Augusta County judge Thursday dropped charges against a couple accused of neglecting an elderly woman.

Relatives and friends of Irene Mae Mitchell, 84, left the General District courtroom confused and angry after Assistant Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Angela Landes failed to provide enough evidence to certify the charges against Timothy L. Propst, 33, and Gracia H. Propst, 32.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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VERONA &#8211; Pastures District Supervisor Tracy Pyles made a plea to fellow Augusta County supervisors Thursday to scale back spending after learning that the county schools&#8217; state funding would be cut further next year.
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RICHMOND &#8212; Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, pelting communities from North Carolina northward with gusty winds and heavy rains, inundating streets, stranding drivers and causing three deaths in hard-hit Virginia and one in North Carolina.            ]]></description>
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Relentless rain swept much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to New York&#8217;s Long Island, inundating streets and forcing some rescues of stranded drivers in hard-hit Virginia.           ]]></description>
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A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year.           ]]></description>
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ARLINGTON &#8212; On a cold, rain-soaked Veterans Day, President Barack Obama walked slowly through the white, stone markers at the section of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he oversees as commander in chief.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:36 EST</pubDate>
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WILLIAMSBURG &#8212; For veterans looking to continue their education, the College of William and Mary can be the academic equivalent of shock and awe. 

It is a highly competitive school that traditional students can find challenging. Now take a veteran from Iraq or Afghanistan who is accustomed to a regimented military life. Plunk him or her down in a world where he or she must learn new study habits, navigate a different bureaucracy and sit next to classmates who consider 8 a.m. classes to be the crack of dawn.            ]]></description>
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COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; A new poll shows Southerners are fretting about job loss and the economy and don&#8217;t think the federal government is doing enough to address either. 

The Winthrop Poll of 866 respondents in 11 Southern states found the economy was the top concern of four in 10 &#8212; the same share of people who said they were concerned about losing their jobs.            ]]></description>
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With a two-year federal grant, Staunton City Council could chip away at fire department understaffing with six hires. The catch: those salaries could cost the city when the grant ends.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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Locally grown produce makes its way onto school menus this week           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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Late Saturday night, the House approved a health-care bill by a narrow margin of 220-215. The bill&#8217;s passage is considered a political win for President Barack Obama. The bill&#8217;s passage is also a win for America&#8217;s working- and middle-class individuals and families.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:11 EST</pubDate>
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All the things Shannon Button left behind, even washing laundry, felt different when she came home. 

In Iraq she never enjoyed privacy. The hot weather and oppressive sun altered her sensibilities about the region. But when she stepped off the plane and onto Virginia soil, her old life looked, felt and seemed new.           ]]></description>
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Strange, sad events cross paths

History is filled with strange juxtapositions, none significantly greater than events crossing paths this Veterans Day.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:49 EST</pubDate>
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16th annual Dawbarn awards announced           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:47 EST</pubDate>
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nTelos trims local crew, offers early retirement           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:34 EST</pubDate>
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School bus driver hit after breaking for a late riser           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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If you believe The News Virginian (&#8220;Time to do what works,&#8221; Nov. 8) and others, you would think that a successful downtown is all that is needed for Waynesboro to survive into the future. Wow. That seems easy enough. After all, there are a few empty buildings downtown and if they had small businesses in them, we would all prosper! New businesses like Ruth&#8217;s Renovations and the Wine Emporium are the latest additions to downtown, but they cannot survive without the patronage of the community.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:30 EST</pubDate>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Facing possible sanctions for suing Augusta County officials over the 2009 property reassessment, Churchville attorney Francis Chester on Tuesday defended his lawsuit and alleged the county government wants to &#8220;silence the people&#8217;s attorney.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Barring clemency, John Allen Muhammad will be led into the state death chamber tonight and executed for the Oct. 9, 2002, capital murder of Dean Harold Meyers.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:18:32 EST</pubDate>
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STAUNTON &#8212; A former corrections officer pleaded guilty Monday to feeding a stream of marijuana to a drug-trafficking ring inside the Augusta County Correctional Center in Craigsville.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:53 EST</pubDate>
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RICHMOND &#8212; Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, and supporters Monday defended his vote in favor of the $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul, while an anti-tax group picketed his offices in Martinsville, Danville and Farmville.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:47 EST</pubDate>
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State authorities found black powder, grenades, guns and mortar rounds in an Afton man&#8217;s home after a scare on Delphine Avenue in Waynesboro, according to court records.

Authorities armed with search warrants rifled through two properties belonging to Mark S. Bales, 51, after the Waynesboro Police Department connected a suspicious drug package with a metal pipe sticking out of the side to him, according to a search warrant in Augusta County Circuit Court. Police closed the street Nov. 2 after finding the package.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:47 EST</pubDate>
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STAUNTON &#8211; Buffie Sue Wells pleaded guilty in Augusta County Circuit Court Monday, to drug charges and charges she eluded police.

Authorities charged Wells, 39, of Stuarts Draft, in late September after she and her then-wanted husband, Andrew Ivan Wells, 32, fled from an Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputy. The deputy saw Andrew Wells sitting in the front seat of a Chevrolet Camero and stopped to question him, said Assistant Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Thomas Knoll Jr. Monday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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Election payoffs can be startlingly swift, especially in the case of Tom Perriello. A year ago, the current Fifth District U.S. House representative laboriously rolled to the curb the inaptly named Virgil Goode, an incumbent whose habitation of a seat in the Capitol was mostly spectral. Mostly but not entirely. Goode&#8217;s absence was haunting Saturday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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Leaders: SRI a long-term benefit to Valley           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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Waynesboro City Council without discussion Monday night voted unanimously to allow an exotic car dealership to occupy a recently vacated downtown building.

In October, Weldon and Phyllis Scrogham of G&amp;W Motorwerkes on Greenville Avenue in Staunton applied to the city for a permit to relocate their auto sales, service and restoration operation to the recently vacated Grand Home Furnishings building at 518 W. Main St.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:16 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro grand jury indicted two men Monday, for charges they used a handgun during a robbery in September.

Authorities charged Jeremy Lamont Brown, 24, of Lyndhurst, and Daryl Shondell Washington, 35, of Waynesboro, on charges they robbed two other men in the 7-Eleven parking lot, police said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:10 EST</pubDate>
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WAYNESBORO &#8212; City departments will seek to reduce expenses by 5 percent this year and next in an effort to offset decreased state and local revenues.

First-quarter sales, meals and lodging tax revenues have not met budgeted projections, City Manager Mike Hamp and Finance Director Pat Nicosia told the Waynesboro City Council finance committee Monday night.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Culling through records of hundreds of sharpshooting Civil War soldiers, Brocky Nicely more than once had to turn to experts of another nature to build their biographies.           ]]></description>
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Churchville firefighters mark 50th year           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:50 EST</pubDate>
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U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello&#8217;s vote in favor of the sweeping health care reform package that narrowly passed the House of Representatives late Saturday is drawing cheers from his supporters and outrage from opponents.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:49 EST</pubDate>
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The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included several people who shared the same profession as the alleged shooter, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shooting. Here is a look at the victims.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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House legislation has nowhere to go in Senate           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Democrats scrambling to recover</title>
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RICHMOND &#8212; History told Virginia Democrats it wasn&#8217;t going to be easy.

For the past 32 years, the party that wins the White House has lost the governorship &#8212; a trend that often portends shifts in national politics.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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