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UPDATED: President Obama rallies crowd of 15,000 in Richmond
WDBJ7 Anchor/ReporterPresident Obama was in Richmond on Thursday making another pitch as to why Virginians should re-elect him. It's estimated 15,000 people attended the rally. President Obama is counting on his words and his promises to carry voters to the polls and re-...Tags: White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Science and Technology
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UPDATE: Court documents reveal love triangle as motive in Blacksburg bombing
According to court documents, the man accused of detonating a pipe bomb in Blacksburg on Wednesday morning was involved in a love triangle with the victim whose car was damaged. The court documents state that Derick Wilson was unhappy with the fact...
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Christiansburg-based National Guard soldiers back in the United States
Assignment ManagerMore than 100 National Guard soldiers based in the Christiansburg area are back in the United States. The unit has been in Iraq since August. The soldiers will spend 5 to 10 days conducting demobilization duties before returning to Virginia, according...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Executive Branch, Family, NATO, Politics
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Step by step, Airmen remember 9/11 victims
ReporterThey're marching in remembrance of strangers, friends and colleagues. That's enough motivation to send them 22 hundred miles. About a dozen U. S. Air Force Airmen are marching in full uniform to Ground Zero in New York City to lay a wreath in memory of...Tags: North Carolina, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Rockingham County (North Carolina), Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), New York City
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Wounded Warriors hunt at Radford Army Ammunition Plant
ReporterThe war in Afghanistan began 10 years ago, October 7, 2001. Since then, thousands of soldiers have returned home wounded. A program here in Virginia is helping our veterans cope with the after-effects of war. It's hunting season. "I've seen two does...Tags: Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Radford (Radford, Virginia), Defense, Iraq
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US troops in Iraq to come home by the end of the year
President Barack Obama says the Iraq war is at its end, and he's announcing that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn by year's end.
Obama's statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the U.S. would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011.
The...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, White House, George W. Bush, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama
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Local veteran wins Facebook contest for new franchise
What a suprise for a veteran from Floyd.
He wins a Yellow Dawg Striping franchise, including all the training and equipment worth more than 28 thousand dollars.
The Yellow Dawg owner is a veteran from New Hampshire, who knows sometimes finding work...Tags: Media Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Facebook, Companies and Corporations, New Hampshire
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More than 800 Va. Guard members deploy to Iraq
ReporterIt hasn't happened in Virginia since World War II, but Wednesday, the largest single unit mobilization in the Virginia Army National Guard since the 1940s took place. More than 800 Guardsmen from Christiansburg, Hampton Roads and Fredericksburg were...Tags: U.S. Military, Kuwait, Hampton Roads, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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Benefit held for injured train worker
A CSX train worker is still in critical condition tonight after falling off of a bridge Tuesday.
Today a fundraiser for AJ Boguess and his family was held in Covington.
Boguess fell an estimated 50 feet into the Jackson River as part of a crew...Tags: Employees, Labor Legislation, Health and Safety at Work, MeadWestvaco Corporation, Injuries and Wounds
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Review: 'Dying City' is a mesmerizing look at the battles within
There are many ways of being a political playwright. Christopher Shinn's approach, centered on characters rather than on ideologies, is one that will never go out of style. Illuminating large-scale public concerns through the microscopic examination...
Tags: London Theatre, Theater, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , September 11, 2001 Attacks, International Military Interventions
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