| February 26, 2008 | - A Virginia task force identified hardcore child pornography on 20,000 computers across the state.
| Source:
FairFax Times
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| January 17, 2008 | - A Winchester, Virginia, man was arrested for burning an 11-year-old girl with a Hot Pocket sandwich.
| Source:
NBC4.com
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| July 4, 2007 | - Four members of a Virginia family and a farmhand drowned (or were killed by methane gas) in a manure pit after each jumped in to rescue the others; two children survived.
| Source:
AP via CNN.com
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| May 10, 2007 | - In Richmond, Virginia, a painting of Britney Spears was covered up at the request of Barack Obama's campaign.
| Source:
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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| April 18, 2007 | - Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich shut down his campaign website for 24 hours in order to create a virtual “moment of silence” to honor the dead at Virginia Tech.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| April 18, 2007 | -
Representative Louie Gohmert (R., Tex.) argued against a hate crime bill from the floor of the House. “If you are going to hurt someone,” he characterized the bill as saying, “if you are going to shoot them, brutalize them, please make it a random, senseless act of violence like Virginia. Don't hate them while you hurt them.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| April 16, 2007 | - At Virginia Tech University, a gunman opened fire in a dormitory and in classrooms, killing 32 people and then himself.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 26, 2007 | -
Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, an expert on counterinsurgency, replaced Army Gen. George Casey as U.S. commander of troops in Iraq, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's plan to increase the number of troops. Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia expressed hope that “wherever possible, the Iraqis should bear the brunt of the sectarian violence.”
| Source:
USA Today
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| January 4, 2007 | - A two-faced calf was born on a farm in Virginia. “Genetically, this is one of my better calves,” said its owner.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| October 9, 2006 | - A Virginia couple were trying to give back their fifteen-year-old adopted son, who turned out to be a sexual predator. “They just told me he was hyperactive,” said the boy's mother.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 8, 2006 | - A Virginia
biology
teacher was suspended after compelling her students to pose with the bones of a century-old corpse in Pocahontas Cemetery.
| Source:
North Country Gazette
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| October 8, 2006 | - In Newport News, Virginia, former President George H. W. Bush attended the christening of the aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush. When ominous thunder marked his speech, Bush looked at the sky. “I'm finishing, Lord!” Bush said to God. “I'm finishing!”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 25, 2006 | -
Senator George Allen of Virginia denied allegations that he had once stuffed a deer's head into a mailbox belonging to an African-American family.
| Source:
Salon
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| September 20, 2006 | -
Virginia
Senator George Allen acknowledged his Jewish ancestry.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 21, 2006 | -
Virginia
Senator George Allen called an Indian-American man with a mullet a “macaca.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Lynchburg, Virginia, at Liberty University (which fines its students $500 if they engage in witchcraft), Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) stood next to Jerry Falwell and spoke in support of the Iraq war.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Liberty University
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| May 12, 2006 | - In Virginia a federal judge was considering whether the case brought by Khaled el-Masri against former CIA director George Tenet could proceed; el-Masri says he was abducted and beaten by the CIA, while the United States claims that allowing the case to move forward would expose state secrets and endanger the war on terrorism.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| April 3, 2006 | - A federal jury in Virginia determined that Zacarias Moussaoui was responsible for some of the deaths of September 11, 2001, and thus eligible for execution.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 30, 2005 | - A Norfolk, Virginia, man changed his name to Kentucky Fried Cruelty.com.
| Source:
NBC6.net
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| November 25, 2005 | - An Amtrak train struck a bald eagle in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
| Source:
Fredericksburg.com
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| August 16, 2005 | - In Richmond, Virginia, a sale on used laptops led to 17 injuries and one woman wetting herself.
| Source:
AP
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| July 28, 2005 | - The Boy Scout National Jamboree was held at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The Senate passed the Support Our Scouts Act of 2005, guaranteeing the Boy Scouts the right to use federal land whether the organization discriminates against atheists and gays or not. The Senate also noted that holding the Jamboree on a military base gave U.S. soldiers the opportunity to practice the “preparation, logistics, and leadership” needed in combat. At the Jamboree four scout leaders were electrocuted while setting up a tent, and three hundred people were treated for heat-related symptoms. In California, a scoutmaster and a thirteen-year-old scout were killed by lightning.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
SWNebr.net
Source 3:
WBOC16
Source 4:
Thomas.loc.gov
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| July 8, 2005 | -
New York Times journalist Judith Miller was sent to jail in Virginia for refusing to appear before a grand jury in connection to the Valerie Plame case. At the jail, where Zacarias Moussaoui is also an inmate, she had to sleep on the floor. Karl Rove's lawyer acknowledged that Rove spoke about Valerie Plame to Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper; Rove released Cooper from his promise of confidentiality, allowing the journalist to testify and avoid jail.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
AFP
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Virginia
Representative Jim Moran described Bush as someone who does not read books, who surrounds himself with sycophants, and who has his ass kissed by Dick Cheney.
| Source:
The Raw Story
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| April 8, 2005 | - A Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in jail.
| Source:
AP
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| January 5, 2005 | - The Dingman family of Virginia was auctioning off the right to pay for surgery on a tumor infecting their 9-year-old son. Bids reached as high as $200.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| April 16, 2004 | - A Pentecostal minister in Virginia was killed by a rattlesnake he was handling on Easter as a test of faith.
| Source:
New York Times
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