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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Obama and family ride bikes on Martha's Vineyard

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WEST TISBURY, Mass. (AP) - The four were biking in Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, a 5,100-acre preserve where the first family also went cycling during their previous two summers...
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Va. executes man for raping, killing elderly woman

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JARRATT, Va. (AP) - Jerry Terrell Jackson, 30, was pronounced dead at 9:14 p.m. Thursday at Greensville Correctional Center...
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VA Beach homicide is first since '09, residents question safety

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theGRIO REPORT - While the Hampton Roads police say crime in the area is down, the murder of Codaro Simpkins, 22, has many residents on edge...
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Southern swamp holds clues about runaway slaves

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THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP (AP) - This fall, a permanent exhibition will open about people escaping slavery before the Civil War that didn't always run to the north...
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