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Trading cards have been popular with kids for generations, from images of sports figures to movie stars. Now, Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park is offering free trading cards featuring various stories and sites associated with the park and its history
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Recently, the story broke that foreclosures were at the lowest level since 2007. That sounds like great news—we’re finally cleaning up the mess from the real estate bubble. Except for one thing: RealtyTrac.com, a marketer of information on foreclosed real estate, noted in April that the number of short sales (where a bank allows an owner to sell for less than is owed on the mortgage) were up by 33 percent from last year
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Gas prices continued their upward tick for the second straight week, following 11 consecutive weeks of declines, inching up 6 cents nationally since the beginning of July
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This is my last political campaign, and it got me a little nostalgic. So I started thinking about some of my early campaigns – when I was running as a state senator, when I was running for U.S. senator back in my home state of Illinois
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President Obama talks to voters at a campaign event in Virginia Beach on Friday
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Virginia has one of the largest deposits of uranium of anyplace in the country in Pittsylvania County in the southern part of the state. The location of Coles Hill Farm where the deposit is centered is in the Roanoke River watershed. There are smaller deposits of uranium in other parts of the state including the Piedmont region
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Twenty-two years ago this month, the people of Liberia suffered the devastating effects of of civil war. The country’s economic, political, and social systems were decimated. The United Nations estimates that 250,000 people were killed and one million displaced. Children suffered the most; tens of thousands were abandoned or orphaned. Most were powerless against exploitation…
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Sen. Jim Webb announced on Tuesday that he will introduce the Military Service Integrity Act of 2012, which could bring criminal penalties to any individual for making a false claim to have served in the military or to have been awarded a military medal, decoration, or other device in order to secure a tangible benefit or a personal gain
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Folk music icon Shawn Colvin and special guest Kat Edmonson will take the stage for the opening weekend of the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival’s 2012 concert season with a performance on Saturday, July 21, at 8 p.m
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We’re here today to talk about taxes – something that everybody obviously cares deeply about. And I’ve often said that our biggest challenge right now isn’t just to reclaim all the jobs that we lost to the recession – it’s to reclaim the security that so many middle-class Americans have lost over the past decade
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