Barack and Michelle team up to finish jobs tour

NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) - Michelle Obama's appearance on her husband's driving tour through North Carolina and Virginia, two politically important Southern states, comes as she takes a more active role in the 2012 campaign...

Obama, first lady tout jobs plan for veterans

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HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - In this military setting, Obama's pitch for his jobs bill was far less partisan than it has been across his bus tour of North Carolina and Virginia...

Obama looks to South in bid to help keep his job

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JAMESTOWN, N.C. (AP) - Obama's Southern strategy is at the heart of the president's three-day bus trip this week through North Carolina and Virginia...

Cain, Romney tied in poll among Va Republicans

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Herman Cain and Mitt Romney are tied at the top of the Republican presidential field while Texas Gov. Rick Perry has plunged sharply among GOP registered voters in a new statewide poll in Virginia...

First lady makes surprise shopping trip to Target

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VIDEO - Attention Target shoppers: You could have been standing in line with Michelle Obama...

New Va. database helps trace slave descendants

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VIDEO - Letters, bonds, wills and court letters are held at the Virginia Historical Society. The documents are not open to the public...

Poll: Obama disapproval soars to 54 percent in Va

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The results mirror other polls that show a continuing slide in the president's popularity in a slow, troubled economy...

Obama to take jobs plan on the road

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama will take his jobs plan on the road next Friday in a visit to Richmond, Va...

Virginia city weighs Confederate flag-flying limit

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LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - About 100 people rallied Thursday evening in opposition to a proposal to limit the flying of the Confederate flag in the rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson are buried...

Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was half a mile deep and centered near Louisa, Va., about 40 miles northwest of Richmond...

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Barack and Michelle team up to finish jobs tour

Obama, first lady tout jobs plan for veterans

Obama looks to South in bid to help keep his job

Cain, Romney tied in poll among Va Republicans

First lady makes surprise shopping trip to Target

New Va. database helps trace slave descendants

Poll: Obama disapproval soars to 54 percent in Va

Obama to take jobs plan on the road

Virginia city weighs Confederate flag-flying limit

Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast

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