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Police probe multi-car crash on Dulles Greenway
Police say two people were taken to a hospital with injuries after the crash Thursday evening. One driver has life-threatening injuries. Both injured drivers are adult ...
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DC-area Boy Scout council supports lifting gay ban
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Boy Scout executive in the council covering the District of Columbia and parts of Maryland and Virginia is supporting the national board's decision to accept openly gay ...
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Gap back in style as 1Q profit jumps 43 percent
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, a shopper walks down the steps at a Gap store in Los Angeles. The Gap Inc. reports quarterly financial results after the market closes on Thursday, May 23, ...
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Coast Guard acts on submerged boat in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- The Coast Guard says a 50-foot recreational boat has become partially submerged at the Ocean Marine Yacht Center in ...
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Obama sees narrower terror threat defends drones
President Barack Obama continues to speaks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, as CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin of Code Pink shouted at him from the back of the auditorium. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Hirshhorn director to resign over split with board
WASHINGTON -; The director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum has announced his resignation after the museum's board declined to move forward with plans to create an inflatable pavilion at the ...
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New Chesapeake CEO Lawlers 2013 pay set at $12.6 mln
Thu May 23, 2013 6:14pm EDT May 23 (Reuters) - Doug Lawler, the Anadarko Petroleum Corp executive who was named as Chesapeake Energy Corp's new chief executive officer, will receive salary, bonus and equity awards valued at $12.6 million this year, according to a regulatory filing. Lawler, 46, is also due a signing bonus worth $14.5 million. That bonus is comprised of $2 million cash and ...
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Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade
An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident. About 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to superficial, but no fatalities were reported. Three of the worst injured were flown by helicopter to area hospitals. Their ...
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Virginia beats Georgia Tech 8-2 in ACC baseball tourney
DURHAM, N.C. - As Scott Silverstein trotted out to the mound for the ninth inning, Virginia's baseball fans at Durham Bulls Athletic Park let out an approving round of ...
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US criticized over response to Indonesia attacks
WASHINGTON -; The U.S. is expressing concern over increased attacks on religious minorities in Indonesia, but human rights groups accuse Washington of downplaying the problem as it looks to forge stronger relations with ...
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8th person pleads in $30M NASA contract fraud
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An eighth person has pleaded guilty to his role in a $30 million fraud and bribery scheme that duped NASA into awarding contracts to companies that falsely claimed eligibility for preferences granted to minority-owned businesses.On Thursday, 59-year-old Michael Dunkel of Merritt Island, Fla., pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to fraud for illegally receiving more ...
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Va. students build disorientation chair for NASA
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) -- High school students in Virginia have finished building NASA a spinning chair that astronauts in Texas will use to practice being ...
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The 20 Craziest Tweets From The Man Who Could Be Virginia’s Next Lt Governor
GOP nominee for Virginia Lieutenant Governor E.W. Jackson (Credit: AP) If you were to put the dregs of conservative Internet comment sections into a pot, boil them down to their essence, then run the resulting product through a sieve to get it to its rawest, most pure form of vitriol, it would probably look something like E.W. Jackson’s Twitter feed. Through much of President ...
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Power boats to gather at W.Va.s Bluestone Lake
The event is being conducted by the Hampton, Va.-based Carolina Virginia Racing Association, which is part of the American Power Boating ...
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AllergEase moving HQ distribution to Danville
The city said Thursday in a news release that AllergEase plans to invest $7.5 million in the move over three years. It will create 150 jobs during this ...
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Vicksburg marks anniversary of Civil War siege
VICKSBURG, Miss. -- The Mississippi River town of Vicksburg is holding several events this week to mark the 150th anniversary of its siege during the Civil War.Concerts, lectures and wreath-laying ceremonies are planned at the Vicksburg National Military Park.On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a Vicksburg stamp that's part of a Civil War commemorative series. On Saturday, ...
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Virginia golfer makes 2 aces in same round
"It's strictly luck," said Blessard, an 11-handicapper and a former Roanoke city motorcycle policeman. "There's no skill involved. I'm a good average golfer and I got ...
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Virginia Senators Seek to Expand Offshore Energy Leasing
Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced legislation Wednesday that would revise the Obama administration’s proposed 2012-2017 offshore oil and gas leasing plan to include acreage offshore Virginia. The Virginia Outer Continental Shelf Energy Production Act of 2013 would bolster the state's energy security, create jobs and direct revenue to Virginia that will ...
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Quantico woman gets 8 years in babys murder
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A Quantico woman has been sentenced to eight and half years for fatally shaking and fracturing the skull of a 9-month-old girl that had been left in her ...
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Two men injured in Virginia Beach shooting
Two men were injured in an early Thursday morning shooting in the 2100 block of Pleasurehouse Road. Officers were dispatched shortly after 1 a.m. when someone reported a shooting at the Bayside Inn, a restaurant and lounge located at 2104 Pleasurehouse Road. Upon their arrival, officers found two men suffering from gunshot wounds, according to the Virginia Beach Police Department news release. ...
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Advance Auto Parts 1Q profit down nearly 9 pct
The company on Thursday posted earnings of $121.8 million, or $1.65 per share, for the quarter ended April 20, down from $133.5 million, or $1.79 per share, a year ...
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Police WWII artillery device found in Va harmless
State police say a man approached a state trooper on Wednesday in a parking lot in Harrisonburg and asked if he could check the device. The man said his son found it ...
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Jury deliberations continue in Va bank fraud trial
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Jury deliberations are continuing in the trial of four former Bank of the Commonwealth executives and a developer accused of conspiring to defraud the bank out of $71 ...
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Virginia officials try again for offshore energy
Two Virginia lawmakers said they wanted to change a federal 5-year lease plan to include oil and natural gas reserves off the state's coast. U.S. ...
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified all 24 people killed in the tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, including 10 ...
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