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If Virginia is a battleground in the presidential race, there are a handful of strategic battlefields that will decide whether the Old Dominion favors Republican Mitt Romney or Democratic President Barack Obama this fall.
ROANOKE, Va. - Virginia Police are cracking down on pain management doctors prescribing pain pills. Federal authorities have charged a New River Valley pain-management doctor with illegal distribution
President Barack Obama arrives for a campaign rally at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., Saturday, May 5, 2012. The battle between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will be the most expensive presidential contest ever — by a long shot.
President Barack Obama leads Republican presumptive nominee Mitt Romney in three key states - Florida, Virginia and Ohio - a new NBC poll released Thursday shows. Obama holds at least a four point lead in the three swing states, with the Florida and Ohio gaps representing the widest margin.
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A 24-year-old Christiansburg woman has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for plotting her husband's killing. The Roanoke Times reports Danielle Vinese McPeak was sentenced
More than half the crew members of a container ship that was at the center of a piracy drama off Somalia in April 2009 are suing for nearly $50 million, contending their captain ignored warnings to sail clear of...
FILE-- Jim Wilson rolls up the American flags on his truck at a campaign event with Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, April 27, 2012. Wilson, a 69-year-old former life insurance salesman and Republican from Virginia, has been following Romney around the country for the past year.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his second general election TV ad in a handful of swing states, including Virginia. In the ad, Romney says he will announce deficit reductions, end big government and stand up to China on trade on his first day in office. In an earlier ad , he said he would approve the Keystone pipeline, introduce tax cuts and start undoing the federal ...
In a memo penned by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) Friday, Republicans reps enumerated the issues that will dominate their summer congressional session. On the top of the list - extending Bush era tax cuts and repealing President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law.
WASHINGTON, 11 July 2003 — A Gallup poll released yesterday says Sen. Joe Lieberman is running ahead of his rivals nationwide for the Democratic presidential nomination, but analysts say Lieberman is not getting much support from American Jews.
The Senate will take a key procedural vote on a gender pay equity bill when it returns from recess next month, and the Virginians battling to join the chamber in 2013 are squabbling over the measure. Timothy M. Kaine (D) has made clear he supports the Paycheck Fairness Act, which is designed to update the 1963 Equal Pay Act. Fellow former governor George Allen, the likely Republican nominee in ...
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