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          <title>3 up 3 down</title>
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3 up 3 down for the week           ]]></description>
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          <title>Everybody wants to have a home</title>
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I looked out my office window, and there it was in a backyard across the street: a magnificent tree house. It has been built around the trunk of a large, leafy tree, and has a front porch.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Mossy Creek burger lands on national stage</title>
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Where no local burger has gone before, the &#8220;Chubby Melt&#8221; went this week: straight to the tip of David Letterman&#8217;s tongue.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ex&#45;Fort Defiance coach sues county schools</title>
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Heralded for leading wrestlers to 13 state championship matches, a former Fort Defiance High School wrestling coach has filed a lawsuit against Augusta County Public Schools claiming officials fired him for racial reasons.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Arrest made in Speedway clubbing</title>
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Deputies have arrested a Waynesboro man on charges he clubbed an Eastside Speedway security guard with a metal pipe.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A growing tradition</title>
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R.E. Lee needs additional space for its football trophies           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:05 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Former roommate pleads to murder</title>
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One of two Staunton men accused of killing a former roommate pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 U.S. soldiers die in Afghanistan</title>
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NATO is reporting the deaths of two more American service members in Afghanistan.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man arrested for speedway attack</title>
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Deputies arrested a Waynesboro man Thursday night, pinning charges on him for the attack of an Eastside Speedway security guard.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Death toll rises to 13 in Fort Hood shootings</title>
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Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist and Virginia Tech graduate trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Va. Power customers may get lower bills</title>
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Dominion Virginia Power customers would get back more than $400 million from the company under an agreement the state&#8217;s largest utility has reached with the state attorney general&#8217;s office and a group of large ratepayers.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:48:44 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Unwanted meds to be collected for safe disposal Saturday</title>
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Expired medications and illegal drugs will be accepted anonymously and without question for safe disposal Saturday at Augusta Health in Fishersville.

&#8220;Our goal is more than 50,000 doses,&#8221; said Doug Holroyd, director of pharmacy services at the hospital. &#8220;To destroy meds in regular trash, it can either get into the water supply or into the hands of somebody you don&#8217;t want them to ... dogs ... kids.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bell granted unpaid leave</title>
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VERONA &#8211; The Augusta County School Board Thursday reversed a decision by Superintendent Gary McQuain and voted 5-2 to grant newly elected House 20 Del. Dickie Bell&#8217;s request for an unpaid leave of absence from his special education teaching duties so he can serve in Richmond.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Jonah Kaine rides again</title>
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Readying to slink off into the night, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine continues to bustle about the business of securing future employment. He has signed on for a part-time teaching gig at the University of Richmond to be coupled with his work as Democratic National Committee chairman.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Alleged thief arrested Wednesday</title>
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A Staunton teen stole a car to use credit cards he&#8217;d stolen from the owner, then found her waiting when he tried to return the vehicle, authorities said.

Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrested Bryan Layne, 19, Wednesday. Authorities said they suspect more people are connected to the crime.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tip of the cap to TNV, city for successful shoe drive</title>
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At the conclusion of a successful effort to provide shoes (5,500 pairs were collected) for the widows in Kenya, Africa, I would like to express on behalf of Summit Square sponsors of the shoe collection effort, our thanks to the staff of The News Virginian. Their excellent work helped to make this collection effort one to be remembered.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:24 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Sen. Deeds unable to secure Obama base</title>
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Democrat Creigh Deeds wrongly focused on social issues and lost to Republican Robert F. McDonnell in the race for governor in part because young, African-American and other voters who supported Barack Obama a year ago stayed home, a political expert said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>H1N1 Round one</title>
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Vaccines arrive for &#8216;high risk&#8217; patients           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Retailers need to do their part to prevent flu&#8217;s spread</title>
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Is it possible that with all the publicity about the flu season this year being doubly bad I am the only one concerned with not sharing the virus with others?           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bell pursues seamless resignation from post</title>
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House District 20 Del.-elect Dickie Bell expects to resign his Staunton City Council seat by the end of the year, which will give the remaining council members 45 days to appoint a successor.           ]]></description>
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          <title>12 killed in Hood spree</title>
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Virginia-born psychiatrist opens fire on army base           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:15 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Write&#45;in process difficult, confusing</title>
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After casting my vote Tuesday, I told a worker there was going to be a lot of confusion concerning the write-in votes. First of all, &#8220;TYPE IN&#8221; would have been a more appropriate description of what you would find upon entering the voting booth. No wonder some voters actually wrote on the screen itself, as reported in Thursday&#8217;s newspaper (&#8220;Write-ins wrangled&#8221;).           ]]></description>
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          <title>Army: 1 shooter in custody in attack at Fort Hood</title>
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The Austin American Statesman has set up a Twitter feed specifically for this event.
http://twitter.com/fthoodshootings           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:34:58 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Former prison guard charged anew for ring</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Authorities have charged a former county prison guard with bribery as part of a ring they say delivered drugs to inmates.

For months April M. Hogsett, 26, of Doe Hill, used her position at the Augusta County Correctional Center to work as a liaison between prisoners and an outside drug source, according to court records.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Life is not a video game</title>
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What&#8217;s going on that at least once a week there&#8217;s news of young people beating, sexually abusing or killing their fellow youngsters? Have parents lost control of their children because they tried to make life easier for them? Or is something else going on?
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Tonight: Bell appeals denial of unpaid leave</title>
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House District 20 Del.-elect Dickie Bell plans to appear tonight before the Augusta County School Board to appeal the denial of his request for a leave of absence from his teaching job during the upcoming General Assembly session.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Results a &#8216;warning&#8217;</title>
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E. Coli, hard water surface during private system tests           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>More to do on treasurer</title>
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Dispensing with the obvious, that being the necessity of replacing Waynesboro&#8217;s treasurer, Stephanie Beverage soon must begin with something ostensibly more complex: figuring out how to keep the state auditor off her back. As she attempts this, the City Council might consider how to right the office permanently.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Write&#45;ins wrangled</title>
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Officials work throughout the day for final tallies           ]]></description>
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          <title>Staunton pair guilty of infant abuse</title>
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Only weeks after their relationship skidded into trouble, a Staunton pair pleaded guilty Wednesday to injuring their infant child.

Richard Lee Steppe, 30, and Patience Dannielle Armentrout, 19, appeared before a Waynesboro Circuit Court judge to admit to felony child abuse of their 2-month-old baby.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bribery charged against former officer</title>
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An former corrections officer accused of delivering drugs to an inmate now faces a bribery charge.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:54:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Fugitive awaits sentencing for alleged molestation</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Nobody caught Jose Orlando Romero-Feliciano easily.

Tracking him meant a chase to the south of the country, down into the twin cities of Louisiana, next to the bank of the Ouachita River.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cline defends 24th</title>
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House District 24 Del. Ben Cline defended his seat Tuesday with a dominating victory over Democratic challenger Jeff Price.

&#8220;It&#8217;s a great night for the [Shenandoah] Valley and for fiscal responsibility and for restoring common sense conservative values to Richmond,&#8221; Cline said from a Republican victory party at Salerno&#8217;s Restaurant in Lexington. &#8220;I commend my opponent for a clean race focused on the issues.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Real work starts now</title>
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Having initiated his campaign for governor shortly after authoring a famous 1989 thesis, Robert F. McDonnell has concluded the facile phase of his quest. Now he learns whether he&#8217;ll suffer the torment of Gilgamesh, watching the plant of life swallowed by the devilish details of running a state stuck in a mire of red and sinking deeper.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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Incumbent House District 25 Del. Steve Landes crushed his first major party challenge in more than a decade Tuesday, rolling past Democrat Greg Marrow.           ]]></description>
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Republican Stephanie Beverage will be the next Waynesboro treasurer after scoring a huge election night victory Tuesday.

Four years after losing her bid for the seat, Beverage captured 42 percent of the vote in a four-way race that saw the field double last month. Incumbent Treasurer Sandra &#8220;Sandee&#8221; Dixon mustered just 27 percent of the vote. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:24 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>McDonnell jobs pitch propels him to victory</title>
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Bob McDonnell led a Republican sweep of Virginia&#8217;s statewide races Tuesday, restoring the Republicans to power after eight years out of the governor&#8217;s office. 

The dominant victories by McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli, the party&#8217;s nominee for attorney general, reversed a recent string of defeats for Republicans, who lost races for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and 2008 and the presidential election in Virginia in 2008 for the first time in 44 years.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:12 EST</pubDate>
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Incumbent Staunton City Sheriff Alex L. Caldwell Jr. cruised to victory Tuesday night, snaring more than two-thirds of the vote.

Caldwell picked up 70 percent of the tally to Democratic challenger Michael S. Painter&#8217;s 30 percent.
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STAUNTON &#8211;&nbsp; Veteran Staunton City Councilman and Republican Richard &#8220;Dickie&#8221; Bell won convincingly Tuesday in the state House District 20 race, besting Democrat Erik Curren.

Bell captured 71 percent of the vote to Curren&#8217;s 29 percent.           ]]></description>
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Republicans tonight were well on their way to retaining&#8212;and perhaps increasing&#8212;their control of the Virginia House of Delegates.           ]]></description>
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Election results           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:07:46 EST</pubDate>
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Republican Sen. Ken Cuccinelli was elected attorney general tonight over Democratic Del. Stephen C. Shannon in a battle between two lawmakers from Fairfax County, according to unofficial returns.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bill Bolling re&#45;elected lieutenant governor</title>
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Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling easily won a second term as lieutenant governor tonight, defeating Democrat Jody Wagner, a former state treasurer, according to unofficial returns.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:25:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bob McDonnell elected Virginia&#8217;s 71st governor</title>
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The three top Republicans garnered roughly 60 percent of the vote to their opponents&#8217; 40 percent.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:05 EST</pubDate>
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County by county results of the 2009 elections.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:43:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>20&#45;year&#45;old molestation investigated</title>
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After two decades of silence, a 37-year-old woman decided to tell her story.

That led deputies to arrest James Preston McLaughlin, 57, of Waynesboro, for sexual crimes they said he committed.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>An election sans Obama</title>
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Meteorologists, correct on occasion, say conditions will be favorable today for voters to venture from their homes and select mostly from guys with perfect hair as representatives to serve for the next four years. Here in the central Shenandoah Valley, it will be partly cloudy with highs near 60. For President Barack Obama looking on from the capital, it might be decidedly chillier. If it&#8217;s fall, leaves and the electorate&#8217;s mood must be changing.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Police briefs_11/3</title>
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Authorities charged Christopher Stagner, 35, of West Augusta, with maiming as a result of driving under the influence, Friday after a July vehicle accident on Braley Pond Road.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:43 EST</pubDate>
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A 73-year-old Staunton man pleaded guilty Monday in Augusta County Circuit Court to sexually assaulting a mentally retarded blind woman.

John Oehlerking faced an Augusta County Circuit Court judge Monday, and pleaded to a reduced charge of sexual battery, court officials said. 

He was sentenced to a year in prison.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Chester faces sanctions over reassessment suit</title>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Augusta County&#8217;s attorney has gone back to court arguing that Francis Chester&#8217;s reassessment lawsuits so lack legal standing that the Churchville lawyer should be sanctioned.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:17 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Full circle: Candidates lend an ear</title>
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The two candidates for House District 25 ended their campaigns on Monday where they started: talking to voters on porches and at front doors.

House District 25 challenger Greg Marrow has enjoyed grueling door-to-door campaigning during his more than eight months as a candidate.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Case closed</title>
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Egleston pleads guilty to reduced charge           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ford reports $1 billion third&#45;quarter profit</title>
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Ford Motor Co. earned $1 billion in the third quarter, fueled by U.S. market share gains, cost cuts and the government&#8217;s Cash for Clunkers rebates.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:49:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>A time for giving</title>
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In poor economy, volunteers see an increase in need           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Candidates make final appeals</title>
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GOP ticket makes a stop in the Shenandoah Valley           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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Many communities hit hardest by job losses, those built around dying factories and mills, have been slowest to see relief from President Barack Obama&#8217;s stimulus plan, underscoring how hard it is for Washington policymakers to create lasting work in areas that need it most.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:16 EST</pubDate>
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President Barack Obama isn&#8217;t on the ballot. Neither are all members of Congress, nor most governors.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:03 EST</pubDate>
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The task for the next governor: restore economic hope. Here are the plans to do it:           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:55 EST</pubDate>
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The Walt Disney Co. is offering parents who bought Baby Einstein videos for their youngsters a refund because, as it turns out, moms and dads can&#8217;t park Junior&#8217;s high chair in front of the flat screen and return an hour later to find him piecing together the great American novel from leftover alphabet soup. 
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>An election of intrigue</title>
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Lovers of politics are rare souls in an era when politicians in the mind&#8217;s eye of the public lurk somewhere near the river bottom with old tires, lawyers, mercury, journalists and other foul stuff. Still, the election in two days ought at least to get points &#8211; and, hopefully, turnout &#8212; for intrigue.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Trouble brews again at Eastside</title>
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Assault second recent scrape at speedway            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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HARRISONBURG &#8211; John Franklin Myers spent his 45th birthday in jail Wednesday, just a day before a Rockingham County judge certified to grand jury a murder charge against him.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:53 EST</pubDate>
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Authorities on Thursday charged Kim Bernard Gilham, 53, of Staunton, for taking indecent liberties with a child. Officials with the Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office did not respond to calls seeking more information about the case.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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The longtime girlfriend of a man jailed Thursday over a fatal fight said the victim&#8217;s account of the brawl &#8212; written two days before a hemorrhage killed him &#8212; doesn&#8217;t tell the full story.

Authorities charged Russell &#8220;Rusty&#8221; Huntley, 24, of Verona, with manslaughter in the death of Chad Fields, 26. Authorities said Fields died from injuries Huntley inflicted in an altercation earlier this month in a Dollar General parking lot.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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New resolution specifies &#8216;what counts as a vote&#8217; for treasurer           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:27 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>McDonnell sticks to message</title>
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell hammered home his message of jobs and the economy during a Friday get-out-the-vote rally before 200 people at Willow Oak Plaza in Waynesboro.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:13 EST</pubDate>
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This week&#8217;s opinion marketplace           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:13 EST</pubDate>
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I admit to the guilty pleasure of watching from the sidelines the unfolding Catholic-Anglican situation. The Vatican has sent an invitation to conservative Anglicans (Episcopalians) who don&#8217;t approve of women&#8217;s ordination, gay rights in any form and liberal political or social ideas to come over to Rome. This includes married Episcopalian priests. I have no dog in this particular fight, but I admit I am curious to see what will happen.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:09 EST</pubDate>
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Michael Steele is singing a dramatically different and more upbeat tune these days.

A year ago, when he took over as chairman of the Republican National Committee in the wake of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential election romp, Steele&#8217;s party was singing the blues.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:04 EST</pubDate>
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The Student Government Association of Waynesboro High School will host its first haunted house tonight and tomorrow.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:49:29 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: Military plane, helicopter collide off Southern California coast</title>
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The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said.           ]]></description>
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Virginians with health insurance who review their statements often look at the bottom line and ask, &#8220;How much?&#8221;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:13:51 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Opting for freedom</title>
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James Madison University&#8217;s leveling of charges against two student journalists raises troubling concerns over press freedom.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:11:40 EST</pubDate>
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About 175 executives at seven U.S. corporations will receive reduced compensation, according to the Wall Street Journal. Immediately, this sparked complaints that the government is dictating executive pay.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:09:38 EST</pubDate>
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When the fight broke out in the Dollar General parking lot, Chad Fields caught a fist to his face and a can of chili to his head, witnesses said.           ]]></description>
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The license of a Staunton physician accused of having sexual relations with patients, verbally abusing a 5-year-old, smoking marijuana and other misconduct was suspended Thursday for three years.           ]]></description>
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Authorities this morning jailed a Verona man on a charge he killed an acquaintance in a fight earlier this month.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:01:04 EST</pubDate>
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A Mt. Solon man faces charges of breaking into eight businesses.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:04:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Scare tactics</title>
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Scuffling through the &#8220;doctor&#8217;s office&#8221; portion of the Waynesboro First Aid Crew haunted house, Whitney McCormick rattled off the key ingredients.

&#8220;Ten feet, 10 heads and two brains,&#8221; she said, motioning to a refrigerator full of appendages. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have a surgeon and patient, slinging things around here.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:55 EST</pubDate>
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Unopposed since 2005 and still ascending the legislative ladder, House District 24 incumbent Ben Cline this year faces Democratic challenger Jeff Price, an historic home contractor with no intentions of becoming a &#8220;career politician.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:53 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro public works backhoe driver caused an accident Wednesday morning, sending two people to the hospital.

At about 9:45 a.m., city employee Glen W. Towler, 46, of Stuarts Draft, drove a backhoe into a blue Chevrolet Blazer on Shenandoah Avenue near High Street, Waynesboro police said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:51 EST</pubDate>
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Shots fired in the area of Stafford Street in Staunton caught police attention Monday night, and now authorities are asking for tips.

The Staunton Police Department released a request, Wednesday afternoon, in hopes of finding assistance in identifying an unknown male who fired a gun at least five times Monday night. More than 20 residents called police, said Staunton police Officer Lisa Klein, sparking an entire shift of officers to respond to the neighborhood.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:42 EST</pubDate>
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Homemade ribbon to carry on cancer awareness           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:41 EST</pubDate>
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Authorities observed the single story ranch-style house for hours. They even sent someone to the inside.           ]]></description>
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Incumbent defends decisions           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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VERONA &#8211; Augusta County supervisors voted to cut $836,000 from the current fiscal year budget Wednesday night to offset state and local shortfalls, but not without strong dissent from one member.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:29 EST</pubDate>
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The statewide Republican ticket along with the party&#8217;s national committee chairman are scheduled to roll into Waynesboro this morning.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to abduction and child abuse more than a year after she held a teenage girl against her will and refused to feed her, causing the child&#8217;s weight to plunge to 61 pounds.
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Authorities arrested Christopher Ray Chaplin, 22, of Staunton, for his involvement in an April 20 robbery on Central Avenue, said Staunton police spokeswoman Officer Lisa Klein.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:17 EST</pubDate>
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A Waynesboro man filed an Alford plea Wednesday to aggravated sexual battery charges.

Augusta County Judge Victor V. Ludwig sentenced David Dwight Cosner, 40, to a year behind bars. Under the Alford plea, Cosner acknowledged that the evidence against him was strong enough to convict him of assaulting a toddler but he stopped short of admitting guilt.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:12 EST</pubDate>
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His main targets involved buildings with food, but they weren&#8217;t enough to satisfy the habitual burglar&#8217;s taste for breaking and entering, authorities said.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:06 EST</pubDate>
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Staunton police are looking for a man who fired five shots on a neighborhood street late Monday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:32:39 EST</pubDate>
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President Barack Obama&#8217;s daughters, Malia and Sasha, have received their swine flu shots.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:54:17 EST</pubDate>
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A U.S. Marine corporal will spend eight years in prison for his role in two robberies that netted $10.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:53:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Patient spared solitary death</title>
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RICHMOND &#8212; C&#233;sar Augusto Chumil, 59, a deeply ill mental patient hospitalized over a 30-year period in his native Guatemala and in Virginia, has died. 

Chumil&#8217;s death came three weeks after he had been moved from Western State Hospital to a Northern Virginia mental facility, where he was able to live out his last days in an unlocked room, among other patients, and with daily visits from his family.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:03:06 EST</pubDate>
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While there are several candidates running for the office of Waynesboro city treasurer, I believe Terry Kent is the best choice. As a former employee of the Treasurer&#8217;s Office, I feel Terry has the background, skills and ability to correct the problems in the office and bring it back to credible standards and accounting procedures, as it should be.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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WAYNESBORO &#8212; City schools officials on Tuesday night heard &#8220;less bad&#8221; news about anticipated revenue for the 2011 fiscal year budget.

Instead of the $1 million drop in local funding estimated in March, schools can expect a dropoff of half that, or about $500,000, City Manager Mike Hamp said.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:50 EST</pubDate>
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I am writing to endorse Stephanie Beverage for city treasurer of Waynesboro. While Sandra Dixon is a fine person and has worked hard to do her job, she has had four years to improve the operations of the Treasurer&#8217;s Office and has failed to do so, according to audit reports and complaints from citizens. It is vital that this office can be run in an efficient and organized manner.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:46 EST</pubDate>
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Conservative activist and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes offered his prodigious speaking talents Tuesday night to help raise money for ComfortCare Women&#8217;s Health.

The organization is a non-profit medical clinic in Waynesboro and Staunton that helps women with life choices, pregnancy confirmation and peer counseling on pregnancy options.

While Keyes was focused on helping ComfortCare, he did express great fear about the state of the country.           ]]></description>
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STAUNTON &#8212; Augusta County&#8217;s former information technology director has been indicted on charges he misused government equipment.

Authorities recovered computers and electronics worth &#8220;several thousand dollars&#8221; from the home of Rick L. Vernier after receiving a tip that he had county property in his Stuarts Draft home, said Lt. A.C. Powers of the Augusta County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
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