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Battlefield Recounts May Rewrite Civil War History

Virginia could overtake North Carolina in number of soldier deaths

(Newser) - With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaching, North Carolina and Virginia have commissioned official recounts of how many soldiers each state lost in battle. What sounds like a humdrum exercise is producing surprising results, reports the Wall Street Journal : North Carolina has long laid claim to losing the...

Virginia Gov. Vetoes School PE Bill

'Unfunded mandate' would have required 150 minutes of PE a week

(Newser) - Virginia’s governor has vetoed a bill that would have required 150 minutes of physical activity per week at elementary and middle schools, handing a victory to school officials who complained that the measure would cost millions to staff, lengthen the school day, and take away from arts education. “...

Middle-Schoolers Suspended for Oregano Possession

A 'travesty of justice,' argues one dad

(Newser) - Four Virginia middle-school boys have been suspended for passing around a plastic bag of oregano that looked like marijuana. "Maybe it was pizza day," chortled Gawker. The school called it an "imitation controlled substance," which is prohibited. But one of the boys' dads, the appropriately named...

'East Coast Rapist' Suspect Attempts Suicide in Jail

Aaron Thomas suffers only slight injuries, returned to jail later

(Newser) - The man accused of being the East Coast Rapist tried to hang himself in his jail cell yesterday, but suffered only minor injuries, reports the Hartford Courant . Aaron Thomas, who was arrested Friday for a series of rapes dating back to 1997 , was taken to a local hospital, but returned...

Aaron Thomas Arrested in 'East Coast Rapist' Case
 Cops Nab 'East Coast Rapist' 
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Mar 5, 2011 6:00 PM CST

Cops Nab 'East Coast Rapist'

Connecticut man Aaron Thomas arrested in 14-year-old case

(Newser) - US Marshals descended on a Connecticut home yesterday and emerged with the man they say is responsible for at least 17 rapes over 14 years up and down the East Coast. New Haven police today said DNA confirmed Aaron Thomas, 39, is the East Coast rapist; investigators reportedly got his...

Virginia Bill to Force Most Abortion Clinics to Close

Legislature passes bill requiring them to meet hospital standards

(Newser) - Virginia's Senate passed a bill yesterday requiring that all abortion clinics meet the same standards as hospitals—a move critics say will force 17 of the state's 21 clinics to close. The new rules will force clinics to do things like buy new equipment, increase staff training, and make cost-prohibitive...

Va. Senator Jim Webb Won't Run Again

Democrat will leave after one term

(Newser) - Democrat Jim Webb of Virginia won't run for a second term in 2012, a decision that gives Republicans a better chance of regaining their swing-state Senate seat. Webb, a Vietnam vet and former Navy secretary, said he's heading back to the private sector, reports the Times-Dispatch . Friends tell Politico he...

George Allen Running for Old Senate Seat

Tea Party, Dems greet announcement with derision

(Newser) - George Allen lost his Virginia Senate seat and his presidential aspirations in 2006 to a no-name in combat boots, and he's decided he'd like one or both back. Allen, a former governor narrowly ousted by Jim Webb after his infamous "macaca" moment was picked up on tape, announced today...

Virginia May Ban Teachers From 'Friending' Students

But some teachers worry it will halt new forms of teaching

(Newser) - Teachers Facebooking students: Usually not a good idea . And soon, in Virginia, it may not be allowed. The state's Board of Education is voting on a policy this week that would restrict teacher-student interaction via social networks, online games, and text messages, unless such interaction is through a platform provided...

Humorless DMV Revokes Awesome Vanity Plate
Humorless DMV Revokes Awesome Vanity Plate
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Jan 8, 2011 2:12 PM CST

Humorless DMV Revokes Awesome Vanity Plate

But joke was actually about cannibalism, owner insists

(Newser) - For years, some guy drove around Virginia with a vanity plate reading “EATTHE.” Not very notable, unless you realize that it appeared on a plate reading “Kids First” at the bottom. Now, Virginia has stripped him of the plate … because it's reading oral sex on children...

Virginia's History Texts Riddled With Errors

Historians discover loads of mistakes in Five Ponds books

(Newser) - Did you know that colonial Virginians commonly wore full suits of armor? Or that New Orleans started off the 1800s as a US harbor (rather than a Spanish one)? These are just a few of the dozens of errors historians have found in Virginia’s textbooks. Virginia ordered a review...

Va. Pol: Screw Feds, Ban Gays From National Guard

Bob Marshall says Constitution gives states right to run their militias

(Newser) - The Commonwealth of Virginia is showing another sign of going rogue these days: Just days after Congress repealed DADT, a Republican lawmaker is calling for the state to ban gays from serving in the National Guard, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Bob Marshall says the repeal amounts to a "social...

Grandma Charged With Tossing Tot to Death

2-year-old thrown to concrete from 6 stories up

(Newser) - A woman neighbors describe as a doting grandmother threw her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a mall walkway 6 stories high, police in Virginia say. Carmena Dela Rosa, 50, has been charged with murder, the Washington Post reports. Police say she was leaving a shopping mall with the girl...

Shots Fired at Marine Museum in Area's 4th Shooting

Bullets fired after closing, no one hurt

(Newser) - Police in Virginia say shots have been fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the fourth time someone has fired at government buildings in the area. Multiple shots were fired sometime after the museum, located about 30 miles south of the Pentagon, closed last night, police say.

Textbook Says Thousands of Slaves Fought for South

Author Joy Masoff read about it on the Internet

(Newser) - A Virginia 4th-grade textbook has come under fire for claiming that thousands of slaves fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War—something an overwhelming majority of historians say isn’t true. The book’s author, Joy Masoff, isn’t a trained historian, and says she did most of her...

Virginia Beach's GOP Chairman Resigns Over Racist Joke

Defenders say email was forwarded in error

(Newser) - The head of the GOP in Virginia Beach has heeded calls from both sides to step down over a racist joke he emailed. The district GOP chairman says David Bartholomew forwarded the joke—involving a dog who is "black, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and has no frigging clue...

Mormon Parents Banned From Scout Leader Positions

Evangelical NC church blocks parents because they're not 'real Christians'

(Newser) - Holy religious wars! Mormon parents have been banned as Cub Scout leaders in a North Carolina troop after they were told their views are "not consistent with Christianity." Jeremy and Jodi Stokes enrolled their two young sons in a pack operating out of an evangelical Presbyterian church near...

Va. Candidate Fights Leaked Reindeer Dildo Photos

Krystal Ball blames opponent, calls release of photos 'sexist'

(Newser) - Sometimes your Newser Virginia bureau feels like it should really be the Alternative Reality bureau (see here and here and here) , but even we can't make up this story: A 28-year-old Democrat named Krystal Ball—who is running for a seat in Virginia's 1st District—was somehow blindsided by the...

Tea Party Getting Its Act Together

Groups coordinating with Republican establishment

(Newser) - Has the Tea Party grown up? The movement is “turning professional,” according to the Wall Street Journal , pushing a real legislative agenda and coordinating with the Republican establishment it supposedly threatens. The Virginia Tea Party Patriots, for example, has managed to push legislation to blunt the impact of...

Virginia Executes Teresa Lewis

She conspired in the murder of her husband and stepson

(Newser) - Virginia has executed 41-year-old Teresa Lewis by lethal injection for conspiring in the murder of her husband and stepson. Lewis' case drew attention around the world because she is the first woman executed in the US in 5 years and the first in Virginia in nearly a century. Her supporters...

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