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          <title>Jefferson&#8217;s Poplar Forest hosts Independence Day bash after hiatus</title>
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As befits a gathering to honor the Declaration of Independence, a sizable crowd was back to pursuing happiness out at Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Poplar Forest on Saturday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>LC seeking accreditation for Doctor of Physical Therapy program</title>
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Lynchburg College is on the verge of launching a Doctor of Physical Therapy program, but the school must first complete a series of accreditation requirements.
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          <title>Amherst Supervisors Have a Mess on Their Hands</title>
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Plain and simple, the situation in Amherst County is a mess.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Fish kill hits fewer in James River this year</title>
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The springtime phenomenon causing fish to develop lesions or die from illness may have been tempered this year in the upper James River by the cold, wet spring.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Babcock &amp;amp; Wilcox may produce medical isotopes</title>
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Members of the nuclear medicine field are asking the federal government to clear the way for Babcock &amp; Wilcox&#8217;s proposed facility that would create medical isotopes and could be built in Campbell County.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Net results: Johnson to be honored in Tennis Hall of Fame</title>
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Dr. R. Walter Johnson is gone, but hardly forgotten.&nbsp; 	           ]]></description>
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          <title>Celebrate the Fourth in Central Virginia</title>
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Happy Independence Day, y&#8217;all.           ]]></description>
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          <title>GLTC bus routes facing Monday cuts</title>
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On Monday, service reductions will be made along city bus routes 7 and 1B due to state budget cuts.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tourism program boosted by $10,000 grant</title>
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A regional tourism partnership has won a $10,000 grant for a new program designed to get tourists to spend more time and money in the Lynchburg area.           ]]></description>
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          <title>15&#45;year&#45;old makes Hill City stop on cross&#45;country trek</title>
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Why did Kimberly Anyadike set out to become the youngest African-American female flyer to pilot an aircraft from coast to coast?           ]]></description>
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          <title>Letters to the Editor for Friday, July 3, 2009</title>
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          <title>APCo Not Out of Line to Ask for Rate Hike</title>
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A decade ago, &#8220;deregulation&#8221; was the word of the day in Washington and state capitals across the nation. And one of the hottest areas of deregulation was the electricity industry.           ]]></description>
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          <title>City police department wins competition</title>
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For now, the Lynchburg Police Department can claim supremacy over its counterparts in Roanoke and Portsmouth when it comes to traffic safety and enforcement.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Roanoke TV station won&#8217;t air GOP ad criticizing Perriello</title>
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A Roanoke-based television station will not run an ad targeting Rep. Tom Perriello, the station&#8217;s president and manager said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>List of July Fourth area closings</title>
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Independence Day closings           ]]></description>
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          <title>Percival&#8217;s Island bridge to be closed starting Monday</title>
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Beginning Monday, the public will not be able to access Percival&#8217;s Island from Lynchburg on weekdays due to a bridge repair project.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Candlers Mtn. ski slope slated for Aug. 29 grand opening</title>
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Liberty University plans to celebrate the grand opening of its new Snowflex ski slope with a public event of professional exhibitions and open skiing on Aug. 29, the college announced Thursday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Liberty reveals new plan for The Plaza</title>
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Liberty University has drawn up a conceptual master plan for the ongoing revitalization of The Plaza.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lynchburg leads Central Va. in population growth</title>
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Lynchburg is leading Central Virginia in population growth since 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau says.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia takes center stage in health&#45;care debate</title>
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Virginia took center stage in the national debate over health-care coverage Wednesday when Debby Smith rose to tell her story to President Barack Obama.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lynchburg jail inmate dies in apparent suicide</title>
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A Lynchburg jail inmate died in an apparent suicide Wednesday, officials said.
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          <title>66 to take citizenship oath at Monticello</title>
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Sixty-six people from 35 countries will be sworn in as U.S citizens at Monticello on the Fourth of July.
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          <title>Search called off for man missing in Wintergreen area</title>
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Investigators have found there is no evidence of foul play in the disappearance of a Charlottesville man who was reported missing from his vacation home at Wintergreen Resort on Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Virginia is for Lovers&#8217; slogan is honored</title>
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Forbes.com has rated &#8220;Virginia is for Lovers&#8221; as one of the world&#8217;s top 10 tourism campaigns.
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          <title>467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent</title>
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Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy&#8217;s road to recovery will be bumpy.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Second Va. death linked to swine flu</title>
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Virginia health officials have confirmed the second death in the state related to the swine flu.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lynchburg woman injured in Campbell Avenue wreck</title>
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A Lynchburg woman was hospitalized after her vehicle crashed into a utility pole on Campbell Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, Lynchburg police said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>No GLTC service on Fourth of July</title>
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There will be no Greater Lynchburg Transit Company bus service on Saturday in observance of Independence Day. The administrative offices on Kemper Street also will be closed Friday for the holiday.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Amherst County official charged with inappropriate contact with a child resigns</title>
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An Amherst County employee charged with inappropriate contact with a child has resigned as the director of economic development.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Franciscan friars in middle of 300&#45;mile trek</title>
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The plan was not to have a plan, just a destination: the Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., sometime around the middle of July.           ]]></description>
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          <title>High&#45;speed Internet provider may offer wireless service in Lynchburg</title>
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Clearwire, a wireless high-speed Internet provider on the forefront of WiMAX Internet technology, has bought a license that would let it offer its service in Lynchburg.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Poplar Forest has bigger July 4th events on tap this year</title>
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After downsizing Independence Day festivities last year, Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Poplar Forest is bringing back a larger celebration this year, complete with music, dance, games, sword swallowing and fire eating.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Letters to the Editor for Thursday, July 2, 2009</title>
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          <title>Another Step to Cleaner Air for Virginia</title>
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When the federal Clean Air Act became effective around the first Earth Day in 1970, some 300 power plants and industries in Virginia were excused from having to comply with the new standards. The thinking was that the plants eventually would upgrade their facilities, which would bring them into compliance with the cleaner air standards.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Mudpuppy&#8217;s Pub, Jazz Street Grill fight for licenses</title>
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Two Lynchburg restaurants are fighting to keep their license to serve alcohol as they work out a way to pay taxes that they owe.           ]]></description>
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Rep. Tom Perriello is the only congressman targeted in a televised version of a Republican Party ad that criticizes the House of Representatives&#8217; 219-212 approval last week of a clean-energy bill.           ]]></description>
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The Johnson Health Center received $700,000 in federal funding this week from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as part of an $850 million stimulus to aid community health centers nationwide.           ]]></description>
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A camp for people with disabilities in Bedford County has closed for the rest of the summer after what its operators call a medical incident involving a camper.           ]]></description>
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A Virginia man set to die later this month for killing a 16-year-old girl and bragging about it in a letter to prosecutors wants to die by electrocution.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Starting today, no texting behind the wheel or smoking in many restaurants</title>
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No more texting while driving. No more loitering on bridges. And no more smoking in many restaurants. These are but a few of the 879 bills that were passed into law this last General Assembly session           ]]></description>
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Whether it&#8217;s a revitalized downtown or outdoor recreation, two small Southwest Virginia towns have bucked a trend that is plaguing the Mountain Empire &#8211; a slow but steady loss of population.           ]]></description>
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The state now is accusing Northrop Grumman of failing to deliver computer services and hinting at unspecified action against the giant company.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Wintergreen Resort preserves 1,400 acres</title>
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More than 1,400 acres surrounding Crawford Knob in Nelson County will be preserved as wilderness after Wintergreen Resort officials donated the property to the nonprofit Wintergreen Nature Foundation.           ]]></description>
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Drivers should be alert to a change in traffic patterns on U.S. 29 Business over the Carter Glass Bridge.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tips sought in Lynchburg construction theft</title>
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A theft at a new construction site in Lynchburg has police searching for a suspect or suspects who stole two heat pumps and an air handler.           ]]></description>
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This week, city residents on a Friday trash route will have their trash collected today because of the altered holiday schedule.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Rubatex fire damages forklift</title>
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BEDFORD &#8212; A small fire at the Rubatex International manufacturing facility in Bedford city destroyed a forklift but caused no other damage Tuesday afternoon, according to Bedford fire officials.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:09:32 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>City opts not to purchase Galleria</title>
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The city has decided against exercising its right to purchase the Main Street Galleria, a prominent downtown building directly connected to City Hall.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:05:22 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Man guilty of lesser manslaughter charge in chase, car crash</title>
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A Madison Heights man who led police on a high-speed chase into Lynchburg before driving his car into a taxi was convicted of attempted involuntary manslaughter Tuesday morning.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:04:35 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>No arrest yet in Leesville Rd. rape case</title>
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No arrest has been made yet in the case of a woman who was raped in her home off Leesville Road in Campbell County two weeks ago.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:03:35 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Liberty buys back Candlers Mountain property</title>
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Liberty University is once again the owner of a 26-acre tract on Candlers Mountain.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:02:38 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:54 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Free days at Point of Honor, Lynchburg Museum</title>
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The Lynchburg Museum and Point of Honor are offering free admission this weekend in honor of Independence Day.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:24 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>For the Kids, A Refreshing Summer Treat</title>
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Remember when, on hot summer days like the ones that have descended on Central Virginia in recent days, you talked your parents &#8212; or grandparents &#8212; into letting you and your friends run through the sprinkler watering the grass?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Amherst board: Taylor&#8217;s &#8216;insubordination&#8217; led to departure</title>
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The Amherst Board of Supervisors has issued a statement some board members say they hope will bring closure to the matter of former county administrator Rodney Taylor&#8217;s resignation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:57:09 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>At 105, Richard Hamilton is still on the move</title>
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Richard Hamilton doesn&#8217;t look, or act, his age &#8212; which as of Tuesday is 105.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:19:19 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Despite falling home prices in Lynchburg, assessed values increase</title>
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Lynchburg&#8217;s real estate market remains slow, but home prices have not fallen enough to affect the new assessed values of property in the city.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fire disrupts operations at Bedford&#8217;s Rubatex plant</title>
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A small fire at the Rubatex facility in Bedford City destroyed a forklift but caused no other damage Tuesday afternoon, according to Bedford Fire officials.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:03:14 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Traffic alert: Accident closes one lane of U.S. 29</title>
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Traffic alert           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:34:54 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>High&#45;speed chase ends with conviction for Madison Heights man</title>
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A Madison Heights man who led police on a high-speed chase into Lynchburg was convicted of attempted involuntary manslaughter Tuesday.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:15:56 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>College bans indoor plants in effort to stave off mold</title>
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Houseplants are banned at a Roanoke college, whose officials are taking no chances that they might cause a mold problem.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:11:15 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Traffic alert: Traffic pattern changes on Carter Glass Bridge</title>
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Drivers should be alert to a change in traffic patterns on U.S. 29 Business over the Carter Glass Bridge.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:43:55 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Virginia has issued more than $1.6 billion in tax refunds</title>
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The Virginia Department of Taxation has issued nearly all the state income tax refunds from 2008.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:18:02 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Lynchburg Museum, Point of Honor admissions free this weekend</title>
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The Lynchburg Museum and Point of Honor are offering free admission this weekend in honor of Independence Day.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia IT contract is six months late, says official</title>
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Virginia&#8217;s computer agency is six months behind schedule in putting in place a $2.3 billion contract with Northrop Grumman for info-tech services.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:51:35 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Traffic alert: U.S. 460 traffic delay cleared</title>
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Traffic alert           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:05:14 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: Michael Vick will work with Boys &amp;amp; Girls Clubs</title>
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Suspended NFL Star Michael Vick is leaving a job with a Virginia construction company to work with youngsters at Boys &amp; Girls Clubs.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:09:46 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Police: Son faked own death to survive massacre</title>
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A college student played dead to escape a family shooting by his father, who killed the other son and their mother before setting their house on fire and taking his own life, investigators said Monday.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Letters to the Editor for Tuesday, June 30, 2009</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:47 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Barricaded Rest Stops Send the Wrong Message</title>
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This is not a pretty picture: A happy family from New Jersey (or Maryland or Vermont) is traveling down Interstate 81. Little Johnny in the back seat has to go to the restroom.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:25 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Montessori school finds new home in Forest</title>
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With large, abundant windows, skylights and a heated floor for students to work from, this new school will provide a distinctly Montessori feel.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sheriff defends Fun Float patrols</title>
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The Campbell County Sheriff&#8217;s Office contends its show of force during Saturday&#8217;s Fun Float Day on the Staunton River was an &#8220;appropriate response&#8221; given the previous year&#8217;s turnout.           ]]></description>
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          <title>City nurse pleads guilty to stealing $10,000</title>
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A Lynchburg nurse who worked at two local assisted-living facilities pleaded guilty Monday to charges she used an identity-theft scheme to steal nearly $10,000, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Roanoke.           ]]></description>
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Last week, Lynchburg native Col. Donald &#8220;Gray&#8221; Heppner Jr. was awarded the 2009 World Service Medal from Kiwanis International for his chief role in developing a promising vaccine against malaria.
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          <title>The beat runs deep</title>
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&#8216;There&#8217;s research to show that if you&#8217;re involved in drumming for more than 15 minutes, there&#8217;s a quantitative change in your brain chemistry. Brisk repetitve behavior is something your body likes, and it rewards you with a shot of endorphins.&#8216;

- Ed Mikenas

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State officials say people with excruciating pain are unable to receive powerful painkilling drugs they need because of the response to a hacker&#8217;s attack on the state prescription drug database.           ]]></description>
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The travel group expects the number of Virginia holiday travelers will be down 1.8 percent from 2008, spokeswoman Windy A. VanCuren said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Medical examiner: Infomercial maven Billy Mays had heart disease</title>
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A Florida medical examiner says television pitchman Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack but further tests are needed.           ]]></description>
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Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to those who might imitate his fraud and to victims who need relief.           ]]></description>
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Virginia legislators are beginning to take a look at the unregulated business of car title lending.            ]]></description>
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The Democratic partisans among us can argue until they&#8217;re blue in the face that it&#8217;s all about scoring political points in a gubernatorial election year, but it doesn&#8217;t matter one iota.           ]]></description>
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A Midlothian man was among two motorcyclists killed yesterday when a pair of Harley-Davidsons collided head-on in Augusta County.           ]]></description>
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Virginia will join 13 other states and the District of Columbia that have banned texting while driving when the new law and hundreds of others legislators passed this winter take effect Wednesday.            ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Virginia Republicans drop fight over Kaine&#8217;s travel records</title>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is refusing to turn over to the Republican Party of Virginia records of his out-of-state travel as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.           ]]></description>
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Traffic alert           ]]></description>
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Fireworks glittered in the Hill City sky Sunday night during Thomas Road Baptist Church&#8217;s ninth annual &#8220;Celebrate America&#8221; event.           ]]></description>
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Six months after pulling two laxative drugs off drug store shelves, Lynchburg-based C.B. Fleet has collected thousands of cases of the products and is considering ways to put the drugs back on the market.           ]]></description>
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Brad and Beth McDouall made the front page of our newspaper before they even moved here. And not in a good way.           ]]></description>
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SCOTTSVILLE &#8212; For more than 130 years, ferrymen have jammed poles into the James River&#8217;s gravelly shallows to push the Hatton Ferry slowly across to other side.            ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:01 EDT</pubDate>
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In Appomattox and Amherst counties this week, we&#8217;ve seen behavior by elected officials that citizens should not tolerate.           ]]></description>
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More than 50 people came Saturday to bag 40,000 pounds of potatoes that were delivered from North Carolina to the Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
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The achievement gap, the fate of the aging Heritage High School and even creationism were all matters of discussion in closed-session interviews of school board candidates this month.           ]]></description>
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Del. Shannon Valentine formally opened her re-election campaign Saturday morning as about 150 supporters in downtown Lynchburg crowded under a tent, trying to talk louder than a bagpipe band that was playing under a shade tree while the temperature climbed past 82 degrees.           ]]></description>
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Lynchburg&#8217;s city manager says he will not propose broad pay cuts again but will instead look to reduce services and eliminate staff the next time budget cuts are needed.           ]]></description>
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What was initially thought a hazardous chemical leak at Virginia Baptist Hospital turned out to be just a scare, Lynchburg Fire Department officials said Saturday.           ]]></description>
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The questions for Staunton River boaters on Fun Float Day normally include how long they will be on the river, what sort of creative rafts they will see and how wild the party will get.           ]]></description>
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