News Headlines for Seven Corners, Virginia

College hoops countdown: No. 35 West Virginia (The Sporting News via Yahoo! News)
Sporting News is counting down its Top 40 teams leading into the beginning of the season. For more on No. 35 West Virginia, be sure to visit Sporting News Today.

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Virginia State Police meet with Tech families (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Virginia State Police held the first of three meetings yesterday with victims and families of victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech last year. The meeting at state police headquarters near Richmond will be followed by two more: one near Chantilly on Saturday for the convenience of the families who live in Northern Virginia or in other states, and another on Sunday in the Richmond area.

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Charlotte Kohler dies at 99; editor brought distinguished writers, poets to Virginia Quarterly Review (Los Angeles Times)
Charlotte Kohler, who helped shape the path of literature as the longtime editor of the small but influential Virginia Quarterly Review, died Sept. 15 of congestive heart failure at her home in Charlottesville, Va. She was 99 and died one day before her 100th birthday.

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Virginia GOP fears McCain could lose state (Detroit News)
Virginia Republicans are warning that John McCain's prospects for winning a state that has been in the GOP column in every presidential election since 1964 could be in jeopardy. With Barack Obama treating the Old Dominion like a battleground state and reliable polls showing a margin-of-error race there, some are cautioning that McCain is making a critical mistake by allowing the Democratic ...

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McCain, Palin coming to Virginia next Monday (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, will appear in Virginia Beach next Monday morning at the resort city's convention center. That afternoon, Palin will stump in Richmond. She'll be the headliner at a rally at the Arthur Ashe Center. The GOP ticket was last in Virginia in September. McCain and Palin appeared at a rally in Fairfax, in ...

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Virginia Tech Victims' Families Meet with Police (CBS 6 Richmond)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Police are meeting with families of those killed or wounded in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007. Virginia State Police Corinne Geller says the first of three meetings was held Monday at Virginia State Police headquarters in Richmond.

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Remains found in Virginia Beach are those of missing Norfolk woman (The Virginian-Pilot)
VIRGINIA BEACH Virginia Beach police said Monday that they have identified the remains of a woman whose body was found last Tuesday. The remains are those of Chantel G. Bryant, 35, of the 2900 block of Kimball Terrace in Norfolk, a Beach police statement said. Bryant was reported missing in Norfolk on Feb. 2.

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New Virginia terminal hots up port rivalry (Financial Times via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
The opening of APM Terminals Virginia will affect other ports in starkly different ways, observers say.

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Obama Camp Scours Southwest Virginia For Votes (NPR)
Barack Obama is seeking votes where Democratic presidential candidates normally don't. That includes tiny Appalachian mountain towns like those in southwestern Virginia. But local voters have many questions about Obama's positions, and he faces obstacles even among some Democrats.

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Virginia's Voter Registration Deadline Passes (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
If you haven't registered to vote in the November election, you're out of luck in Virginia and running out of time in the District and Maryland. New Virginia registrations had to be in the local voter registration office by the close of business or postmarked by Monday.

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