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Analysis: Is the tea party becoming the new Grand Old Party?

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fedup conservative-libertarians displayed their power in the movement's biggest triumph of the election year: the toppling of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP primary. Political novice Joe Miller is the fifth tea-party insurgent to win a ...

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Lingamfelter: Are We Ready for Emergency Events?

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

PRINCE WILLIAM This past weekend marked the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, just as we enter a hurricane season in Virginia that could be extraordinarily active. Emergency managers and govern ment leaders must ask themselves if we really are better prepared for hurricanes in 2010 after the major lessons of ...

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Missed Connection?

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 3:04 p.m.

Once Long realized that a day job and sucking Interstate 95’s dick wasn’t a good idea, the parties started getting good. This Friday Night, in the Art District, tell your friends to get with my friends ...

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Federal fugitive task force captures Petersburg homicide suspect

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 1:45 p.m.

A man wanted in the June shooting death of a 22-year-old Petersburg resident was captured today by the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force ...

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Federal agents descend on egg farms again

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 5:40 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, the two Iowa farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall, have been visited by federal agents again. Spokeswomen for the farms said the agents who arrived yesterday worked for the Food and Drug Administration. Bob Teig, an ...

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Nigerian government locks out snoozing employees

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

ABUJA, Nigeria --Nigerian federal employees who reported late to work have gotten a rude awakening. A number of federal offices in Abuja, the nation's capital, locked out hundreds of tardy workers yesterday. The move is part of a continuing government effort to end chronic late arrivals. The offices opened their ...

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Montana drinking-and-driving culture at crossroads

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

a closer look HELENA, Mont. Montana long has had a reputation as a place where you could crack open a beer while driving down the interstate just about as fast as you liked. Until 2005, when the state came under heavy duress from the federal government, it was legal to ...

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Fewer U.S. children in foster care

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

NEW YORK -- The number of U.S. children in foster care has dropped 8 percent in the past year, and more than 20 percent in the past decade, according to new federal figures underscoring the impact of widespread reforms. The drop, hailed by child-welfare advocates, stems largely from a shift ...

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UPDATE: Woman shot in Gilpin Court; police looking for armed bike riders

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 5:51 a.m.

Richmond police today continued their search for two young males on bicycles armed with guns after a girl was shot in the back last night in the Gilpin Court public housing project. Police received a call about 9:20 p.m. about a juvenile female being shot in the back in the 1100 block of ...

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Serial stabbing suspect faces hearing in Mich.

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 5:08 a.m.

FLINT, Mich. -- A pretrial hearing is scheduled in a Flint courtroom for a man charged in one stabbing and suspected in 13 others in the area, including five slayings. Thirty-three-year-old Elias Abuelazam is charged with one count of assault with intent to commit murder. Today's hearing in 68th District ...

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