Virginia 'sorry' for slavery role
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Virginia's General Assembly expresses "profound regret" for the US state's role in slavery.
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By HARRY MINIUM  BY HARRY MINIUM  The Virginian-Pilot  RICHMOND - Del. Robert Bell speaks plainly about why he is trying to amend the state constitution.  "We want to make it more difficult for government to take your home," said the Republican from Albemarle County.
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By Michael Sluss, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 23--RICHMOND -- For the second year in a row, the General Assembly is approaching adjournment with lawmakers trying to hammer out a deal on legislation limiting government's power to seize private property by invoking eminent domain.
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Tony Blair will express &quot;deep sorrow&quot; for the country's role in the slave trade Monday, his office has confirmed.
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Tony Blair expresses "deep sorrow" for Britain's role in the slave trade but stops short of demands for a full apology.
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BEIJING -- China announced more arrests and a provincial governor apologized yesterday as the government stepped up it efforts to try to show it was responding to a growing slave labor scandal.
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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Europe and the United States should  apologize to Africa for the cruelties of slavery, Venezuelan  President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday, calling on Africa to  resist what he called modern day U.S. colonialism.
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In the debate over Virginia's mental health system, they're called "consumers." Some of them call themselves survivors.
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MILLWOOD, Va. -- Exactly 50 years ago, a Girl Scout living on a farm near this Clarke County town 60 miles from Washington penned a letter to the White House. It was a time of rising racial tension in Virginia and the country. Drew Gilpin, without telling her parents, decided to seek help from the...
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A component of state transportation legislation that would shift responsibility for planning and building secondary roads to Northern Virginia localities is a nonstarter, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday.  Kaine made his comments after meeting with regional leaders.
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virginia beach  House candidate won't take law job  Bobby Mathieson, a Democrat running for the state House of Delegates, has decided against taking a controversial job with the city's revenue commissioner.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 28 -- The Virginia General Assembly continued to move forward Monday to overhaul how the state cares for people with mental illness, promising to fix a system whose flaws were exposed last year after the shootings at Virginia Tech.
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In this illustration released by the APVA Preservation Virginia, tools for the surgeon&#39;s chest, taken from John Woodall&#39;s &#39;The Surgeon&#39;s Mate,&#39; published in 1617, are shown.
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By Seth Freedland, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun.
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Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has found a lot of ways to explain her string of losses to Sen. Barack Obama. She's going to have to come up with yet another excuse for losing Virginia Tuesday night.
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A House committee is expected to endorse a resolution urging Japan to apologize formally for coercing thousands of women to work as sex slaves for its wartime military.