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The Senate race
Debates are like the Consumer Reports of elections: a chance to compare the candidates side by side. It can be instructive to hear them talk about issues you care about, to gauge how the experiences they describe will prepare them for they office they...Tags: Elections, Political Candidates, iPhone, Parliament, Google Inc.
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Sniper trial judge sworn in to Va. Supreme Court
Associated Press WriterLeRoy F. Millette Jr., the judge who presided over the trial of sniper mastermind John Muhammad, was sworn in Friday as the 99th person to serve on the Virginia Supreme Court. Millette succeeds Justice G. Steven Agee, who was appointed to the 4th U.S....Tags: Judges, Justice System, Local Authority, Timothy M. Kaine, Court Administration
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Woman's body found in her Annandale home
Fairfax County police are investigating the death of a woman whose stabbed body was found at her Annandale home. Police say a family member found 46-year-old Sharon Harvin at her home on Indian Run Parkway about 11:45 p.m. Monday. Officials say she...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Police, Virginia, Police Investigations
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Tree-killing beetle quarantine locked in
A quarantine in Northern Virginia to prevent the spread of a tree-killing beetle is now permanent. The Virginia Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services extended the previously temporary quarantine earlier this month. The order prohibits the movement...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Imperial and Royal Matters, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Virginia
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Va. election season kicks off with Labor Day parade
804-225-7345Democrat Mark R. Warner certainly looked like a front-runner in the U.S. Senate race Monday, trotting ahead of his opponent in the Buena Vista Labor Day parade. He high-fived parade watchers and worked up a sweat, buoyed by supporters like Bonnie Massie,...Tags: Alaska, Public Holidays, Labor Day, Executive Branch, Elections
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Around the state
The curious presence of blue crabs in the James delights. The creatures are fun to watch, even to those of us who like them cooked, cracked, and dressed in cocktail sauce. Baltimore can relax, however; Richmond isn't on the verge of challenging its...Tags: New York Times, Executive Branch, Judges, Justice System, Timothy M. Kaine
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Feds break up DC area cigarette-smuggling ring
Authorities say they've broken up a major cigarette-smuggling ring in northern Virginia. According to documents filed in federal court, conspirators in New York paid smugglers in Fairfax County more than $4 million for about 200,000 cartons of...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), New York, Virginia
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Racial slur painted on northern Virginia church
Fairfax County police are searching for the person who painted a racial epithet on a historic black church in McLean over the weekend. Parishioners at First Baptist Church of Chesterbrook found the word spray-painted next to the front door of the church...Tags: Racism, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Christianity, Baptist, Virginia
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New superintendent ready for school
247-4644— His supply list might be longer — or shorter — than that of his charges, but Eric Williams' overall to-do list is ever-burgeoning as he prepares for his first year as York County school superintendent. His smile was bright on a recent...Tags: Chincoteague, College of William and Mary, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Eric Williams, Schools
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9 to 5 no longer only way to work
The Washington PostWASHINGTON — A growing number of businesses and state and local governments from the Washington suburbs to Salt Lake City are pondering a strategy for saving on utility costs and being kind to the environment: telling their workers to stay home....Tags: Michigan, Local Authority, Washington Post Company, Utah, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Families urged to fight elder mail fraud
The Washington PostWASHINGTON—The envelope declared that the 90-year-old man in suburban Fairfax County, Va., had won $2.5 million in a sweepstakes and that he needed to send in only some small "fees" and "taxes" to collect. When the man from Jamaica kept calling to...Tags: Fraud, Gaming and Lotteries, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), People, Corporate Crime
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Naperville School District 203 chief to retire
Naperville School District 203 officials will soon begin searching for a new superintendent now that Alan Leis has announced his retirement. Leis, who joined the district in July 2003, came from Virginia's Fairfax County public schools. He said in a...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Virginia, Naperville
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