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The State Board of Elections is cooperating with the ongoing investigation of an alleged voter fraud case in Rockingham County, according to a statement from the secretary of the State Board of Elections, Donald Palmer, released on Tuesday.
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Barack Obama and Tim Kaine are looking good in Virginia in 2012. And then you look ahead to 2013, and it looks again like Republicans have the inside track to a statewide sweep.
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There were irregularities in the ballot petitions submitted by Constitution Party presidential candidate Virgil Goode in his effort to get on the presidential ballot in Virginia, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Friday. But the irregularities were not enough in the AG’s mind to prevent Goode from being certified for ballot access in the November election.
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The Virginia Board of Health today voted 13-2 to approve burdensome and unnecessary regulations governing women’s health centers that perform abortions. These new proposed regulations, if unchanged after a 60-day public comment period, will make abortions more expensive and more difficult to obtain, particularly if some clinics are forced to close.
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Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced the hiring of Taylor Thornley as director of communications for his gubernatorial campaign on Wednesday
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The United States Supreme Court has upheld the health-care reform passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010
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The U.S. Supreme Court this morning handed down a mixed decision in Arizona v. United States, a case challenging that state’s SB 1070 law, which is based on the controversial Prince William County ordinance that was cast aside as unworkable in 2008. While throwing out provisions making it a state crime to be in the country illegally and to make it a state crime to seek work, the Court refused to say that the Arizona “show me your papers” law was invalid on its face, without additional facts and an interpretation of the law by the Arizona Courts
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During the recent Board of Health vote on June 15 regarding new rules for women’s health centers that provide abortion care, a heated debate arose between Board members and representatives of the Attorney General’s Office
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A Nelson County man pled guilty today to multiple federal charges for the sale of illegally poached bear organs, the sale of fighting gamecocks, the possession of protected migratory birds, and the distribution of marijuana
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Today, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced that Virginia has joined 43 other states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission in settling causes of action against Skechers USA
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