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<item><title><![CDATA[ Assistant Principal Charged With Child Pornography ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003269.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003269.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An assistant principal at Freedom High School in South Riding was arrested yesterday and charged with possession of child pornography. ]]></description><dc:creator>Brigid Schulte</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Assistant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Principal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charged]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Child]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pornography]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ting-Yi Oei]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicole Wittman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven D. Stone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freedom High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayde B. Byard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Taking It From the Top ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082000041.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082000041.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ David Marks and his four brothers grew up incubated by Loudoun County's small classical music community. Their father, Tom Marks, was a noted violinist and founding member of the Loudoun Symphony, and he transmitted his passion for music to each of them. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Taking]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Marks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Marks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Rohrer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eleanor Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Wesley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theo Marks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waterford (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Arts Centre Orchestra]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waterford Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Voter Registration Key to Obama's Efforts to Put Virginia in Play ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702592.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702592.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND -- Virginia has added nearly a quarter-million registered voters since the 2004 elections, and about half of that growth came from increasingly Democratic Northern Virginia. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Voter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Registration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Key]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Efforts]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Put]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Play]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey M. Frederick]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Lang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hampton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Pyon]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rich Beeson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert J. Dole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott A. Surovell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Democratic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allegheny Mountains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shenandoah Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kaine's Push for Obama Rolls Into Loudoun ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081602047.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081602047.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine spoke with groups of ardent Barack Obama supporters yesterday in Washington's outer suburbs, stumping for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee at packed town hall meetings, where voters expressed concerns about the economy, U.S. energy policy and the wars in...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184107710" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184107710" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Josh White</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kaine's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Push]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rolls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Into]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danielle Larkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Goodwill, Self-Esteem Harvested In Community Garden Program ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503587.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503587.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For troubled youths, sometimes the key to getting back on track is the opportunity to help something else grow and blossom. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Goodwill,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Self-Esteem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvested]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Program]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart Younkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bonnie Inman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Department of Family Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Interfaith Relief Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ GMU Again Presses For Campus In Loudoun ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503566.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503566.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ George Mason University is renewing its effort to open a full-service campus in Loudoun County, a plan that fizzled two years ago after the Board of Supervisors rejected a large development integral to the university's plans. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[GMU]]></category><category><![CDATA[Again]]></category><category><![CDATA[Presses]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campus]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Coughter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott K. York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Community College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Officials Probe Link in 11 Reports of Prowlers, Assaults on Women ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401702.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401702.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Authorities in Loudoun County investigating a string of assaults on women in their homes listed as many as 11 incidents yesterday, dating back to January -- many near the Washington & Old Dominion Trail -- that they believe are connected. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Officials]]></category><category><![CDATA[Probe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Link]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[11]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prowlers,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assaults]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wes Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shelly Whitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centreville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exeter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kincaid Forrest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Sheriff's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Slump Squeezes Enrollment at Private Schools ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303826.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303826.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Private schools across the Washington region have begun to feel the effects of the nation's economic slumber, as some families seek more financial aid to help with staggering tuition bills and others simply opt out of paying for an education.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184108176" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184108176" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Daniel de Vise</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Slump]]></category><category><![CDATA[Squeezes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enrollment]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Private]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa LaCourse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bassett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betsy Downes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Kilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kensington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pam Larimer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princeton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Archdiocese of Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of Independent Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic Diocese of Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flint Hill School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Country Day School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland State Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Independent Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin Payes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidwell Friends School]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Albans School]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Andrew Apostle School]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Filling a Shopping Cart For 14,000 Students ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081203718.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081203718.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On a balmy day last week, more than 100 volunteers commandeered the cafeteria at Langston Hughes Middle School in Reston. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Filling]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shopping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cart]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[14,000]]></category><category><![CDATA[Students]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kids R First]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ginger Seeley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Ungerer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Langston Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chantilly High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office Depot Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Leesburg Police Seek Masked Assailant ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081201497.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081201497.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A man wearing a black ski mask has assaulted women in their Leesburg homes over the past three months, police said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Masked]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assailant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wes Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davette Everly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exeter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie D'Agostino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Sheriff's Office]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Woman Indicted in Standoff at Doctor's Home ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102277.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102277.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A woman who blamed her doctor for her son's cerebral palsy was indicted yesterday by a Loudoun County grand jury on charges of breaking into his Leesburg home, abducting him and his wife and using a firearm, the county's chief prosecutor said. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Woman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indicted]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Standoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doctor's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michele Davidson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chauncey Stokes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geri Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Plowman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Walkinshaw]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ More Cleaning Service Clients Report Items Stolen ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901754.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901754.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Word got around about Mirian Martinez: She was a good cleaning woman, reliable and hardworking. People raved about her to friends, who hurried to hire her.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184110972" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184110972" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Jacqueline L. Salmon and Val Cavalheri</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleaning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clients]]></category><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Items]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stolen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mirian Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anna Livingston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Adult Detention Center]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Roadwork Hits a Bumpy Patch ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803533.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803533.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maintenance crews repaired a small stretch of pavement on Mount Gilead Road west of Leesburg last week. It was a minor affair, by road maintenance standards -- a job that cost $15,000 at most, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Transportation said. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Roadwork]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hits]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bumpy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Ray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount Gilead]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike P. Salmon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Board of Supervisors]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ YMCA's Director to Join Schools ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803527.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803527.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Loudoun County school system has hired the executive director of the county's YMCA to be its new outreach supervisor, replacing an official whose firing drew protests from minority organizations. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[YMCA's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Director]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Join]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendall T. Fisher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Bennett-Roberts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon Ackerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[YMCA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Kiyota]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rain Hasn't Washed Away All Woes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803479.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080803479.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Early last summer, Brad Smith had almost 250 head of cattle grazing on his family's Gainesville farm. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jennifer Buske</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hasn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Away]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jan Sickel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paige Thacker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Demeria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Nugent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie Blischak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Olsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gainesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Farm Service Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Extension Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County Farm Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William Park Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Residents Can Track Local Crime ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080600023.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080600023.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun residents have a new way to keep an eye on neighborhood crime.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184111446" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184111446" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Residents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can]]></category><category><![CDATA[Track]]></category><category><![CDATA[Local]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Sheriff's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[CrimeReports.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Whisenant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Salt Lake City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun Building Boom Buckles Under Economic Strain, for Now ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503060.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080503060.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If there were any doubt that Loudoun County's long-standing reputation for rapid growth and affluence is changing, consider this: During the first six months of the year, the number of foreclosures in Loudoun almost matched the number of new homes permitted. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buckles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Under]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strain,]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Now]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Mays]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Keeney]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Census Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[James G. Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McClain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stafford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University's Center for Regional Analysis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rezoning Fees Might Rise Sharply ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103897.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103897.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County officials are considering dramatically increasing the fees charged to those who ask for their property to be rezoned. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rezoning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fees]]></category><category><![CDATA[Might]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharply]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott K. York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Monroe Center Is Set to Launch Tech Academy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103898.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103898.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For more than 20 years, the Monroe Technology Center in Leesburg has been the flagship for career and technical education for Loudoun County public school students. Hundreds have participated in dozens of programs, including culinary arts and nursing. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Monroe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Set]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Launch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category><category><![CDATA[Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shirley Bazdar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Public Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monroe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monroe Technology Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claude Moore Charitable Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Community College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technical Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun Rezoning Fees May Increase ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080200413.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080200413.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:24:59 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County officials are considering dramatically increasing the fees charged to those who ask for their property to be rezoned.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184112049" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184112049" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rezoning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fees]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Increase]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott K. York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ More Kids Might Walk To School ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000034.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000034.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County supervisors have raised the idea of requiring more students to walk to school, saying they want to bring up the topic with the School Board as part of an effort to hold down the county's rising fuel bills. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Might]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walk]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayde Byard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naomi Lithgow-Foidl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Transportation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Patient at the Door With a Gun ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002526.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002526.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Michele Davidson watched her son, Grant, struggle with a severe birth defect for more than a year. She blamed her doctor for delaying his delivery -- and she wanted him to feel her pain, according to court testimony yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patient]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Door]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[LaSheryl Stokes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chauncey Stokes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd F. Sanders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geri Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Campbell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicole Wittmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Circuit Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Walkinshaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Birth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Names Released of Two Arrested in N.M. With Stolen Car ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072901589.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072901589.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:27:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Police today released the names of a mother and daughter who were arrested in New Mexico yesterday with a car reported stolen from a Leesburg homicide scene. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Names]]></category><category><![CDATA[Released]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrested]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[N.M.]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stolen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Car]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Giving His Share to the Fair ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503722.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503722.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every year, Terry Corle arranges his work schedule so he has a week off at the end of July.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184114968" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184114968" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Share]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fair]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Habitat To Honor Student ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503716.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503716.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Since she died last year, Erin Peterson has been showered with honors. Her high school basketball team created an award in her memory. The private school she attended through eighth grade named its gym after her. A foundation set up in her name has granted thousands in scholarships. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Habitat]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Student]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erin Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bud Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Jane Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Celeste Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centreville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gamil M. Mosleh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middleburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purcellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Banneker Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Habitat for Humanity International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Downtown in a Downturn ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072300060.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072300060.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Some say downtown Leesburg is just going through a phase. Others say its problems are more worrisome -- a reflection of how rising gas and food prices have prompted many consumers to spend less on nonessential purchases and stay closer to home. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Downtown]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downturn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa Capraro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downtown Improvement Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irene Jericho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marantha Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg Town Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Potomac Gallery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urban Land Institute]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Homes To Honor Va. Tech Victim ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601024.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601024.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:24:57 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Since her death last year, Erin Peterson has been showered with honors. Her high school basketball team created an award in her memory. The private school she attended through eighth grade named its gym after her. A foundation set up in her name has granted thousands in scholarships. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Homes]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victim]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sentencing of Rights Leader for Incest Is Delayed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072501352.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072501352.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:36:57 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Loudoun County judge today postponed the sentencing hearing for James L. Bevel, a civil rights leader in the 1960s who in April was convicted of incest for having sex with his teenage daughter.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184116131" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184116131" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sentencing]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leader]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Incest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delayed]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Woman Found Dead in Leesburg Home ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072501271.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072501271.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:10:57 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An autopsy was scheduled this morning for a 66-year-old woman found dead in a Leesburg house last night under suspicious circumstances, authorities said. ]]></description><dc:creator>Theresa Vargas</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Woman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Found]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For More N.Va. Students, the Classroom Is on the Computer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072301180.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072301180.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Online schooling in Northern Virginia and elsewhere is becoming more popular among students and educators as a way to break from the traditional classroom setting and rigid school schedules, according to interviews with local officials and a new federal study. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ian Shapira</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[N.Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Students,]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Classroom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Computer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gina Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Cheely]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Bellavia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Kowalski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia Donahue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stafford]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Center for Education Statistics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Business Group Aims to Burnish County's Image Across Region ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072300083.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072300083.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Good schools, higher education? Check. Access to major transportation corridors and numerous entertainment venues? ]]></description><dc:creator>Jennifer Buske</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category><category><![CDATA[Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aims]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burnish]]></category><category><![CDATA[County's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Image]]></category><category><![CDATA[Across]]></category><category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurie C. Wieder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Vanderpool]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jana Yeates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Image Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jo Ann Bell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forum Image Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sterling Residents Seek Help ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072300059.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072300059.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dozens of Sterling area residents pleaded with the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to take steps to improve conditions in their community, where some say aging homes, a spate of foreclosures and illegal immigration have worsened crime and diminished the quality of life.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184116671" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184116671" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sterling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Residents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Help]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Jahnigen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Manas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rose Castellano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Salinas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott K. York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Park View High School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun Softball Alums Going Up Against the Best ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072203346.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072203346.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the United States Olympic softball team continues its preparations for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, four Loudoun County natives will have the opportunity to face off with the country's best when a team of Virginia college players takes on the U.S. squad tonight at Kiwanis Field in Salem. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Tenorio</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Softball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alums]]></category><category><![CDATA[Going]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Best]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlantic Coast Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jenny Clohan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Tech Hokies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Everhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jessica Everhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Haller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Cavaliers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Madison University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kiwanis International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Salem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cat Osterman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colonial Athletic Association]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Father Indicted in Toddler's Death in Hot SUV ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072201341.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072201341.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Loudoun County man who left his 21-month-old son inside a sport-utility vehicle on a hot day this month has been indicted by a Fairfax County grand jury on a manslaughter charge, and he made his first court appearance yesterday. He was then taken into custody and later released on bond. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tom Jackman</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Father]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indicted]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toddler's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hot]]></category><category><![CDATA[SUV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miles Harrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter D. Greenspun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcus D. Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purcellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[GMC Yukon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian M. Rodway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yukon Territory]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Workshop Lets Veterans Share Their Stories ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901682.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901682.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The dozen men and women gathered in a Loudoun County hotel conference room yesterday morning hardly knew each other. But all had served in the U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan, and all seemed to agree that few people in their lives -- relatives, colleagues, friends -- were willing to listen t... ]]></description><dc:creator>Karin Brulliard</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Workshop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veterans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Share]]></category><category><![CDATA[Their]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teresa Rogers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Driscoll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Euneka Joseph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fallujah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Belvoir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jed Tocci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ She's an Officer and a Canine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071803512.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071803512.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ She's a rookie with the Loudoun County Fire Marshal's Office, having arrived in March. But already she has sniffed out 17 key pieces of evidence in 13 fires that accounted for $2.3 million in damage, authorities say.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184121910" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184121910" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Bill Brubaker</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[She's]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Fire Marshal's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Briggs Animal Adoption Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fire Marshal's Office on Cornwall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Front Royal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guiding Eyes for the Blind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shetland Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Higher Fares May Loom For PRTC Bus Riders ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600009.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600009.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bus riders in Prince William County might pay higher fares by the end of the year as transportation officials try to accommodate spikes in fuel prices and ridership. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jennifer Buske</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Higher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fares]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loom]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[PRTC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Harf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Gourley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Covington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan L. Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[W.S. Covington III]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas City Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ County Wins Award for Government on the Web ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600006.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600006.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County's Web site might not be the sexiest in the world, but when compared with other local governments', it's near the top. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Award]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Web]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gene Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Barnes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrea McGimsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill McIntyre]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Digital Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Counties]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Board Votes to Send Crews to Fix Lawns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600005.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600005.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to enact emergency legislation to allow the county to step in and mow the overgrown lawns that have proliferated around eastern Loudoun and that some say are a black mark on their neighborhoods. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Votes]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Send]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crews]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On State's Election Map, Some Areas Are Purple Question Marks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502924.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502924.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND With Virginia shaping up as a battleground in the presidential contest between Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), a few counties and cities will be key in deciding whether the state goes blue this year for the first time since 1964.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184122748" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184122748" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[State's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Election]]></category><category><![CDATA[Map,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Areas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purple]]></category><category><![CDATA[Question]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry W. Kilgore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blue Ridge Mountains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Albemarle County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blacksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caroline County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henrico County]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelson County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rappahannock County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appalachian Mountains]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suffolk]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Voters to Decide on Meals Tax, Bond Questions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502673.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502673.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County voters will be asked this fall to approve a tax on meals and beverages and about $112.6 million in construction bonds to help the county catch up with its rapid population growth during the past decade. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decide]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tax,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrea McGimsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. DuPree]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On LoudounExtra.com: Loudoun Revisits Rules As Sinkholes Multiply ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402382.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402382.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sinkholes have been on the rise in Loudoun County, prompting county officials to call for new regulations to protect residents who live in sinkhole-prone areas and to prevent the county's water supply from becoming contaminated. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[LoudounExtra.com:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revisits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sinkholes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Multiply]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Blackburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luray Caverns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ County Red Cross Ends Medical Ride Program ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071103638.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071103638.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Loudoun County chapter of the American Red Cross has ended a program that gave seniors, veterans and disabled residents free rides to medical appointments, one of several cutbacks prompted by waning donations and the worsening economy. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cross]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ends]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ride]]></category><category><![CDATA[Program]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christine Birkenstock]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephanie Foran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lori Waters]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kameel Stanley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Board of Supervisors]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun Scales Back Six-Year Road Plan ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071103636.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071103636.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Several of Loudoun County's high-priority road projects are caught in the crossfire of the General Assembly's battle over transportation funding.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184123535" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184123535" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[Six-Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Art Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sally Kurtz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land Use Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Park View Assistant Coach to Lead Loudoun Valley ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071103605.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071103605.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After a search that lasted nearly two months, Loudoun Valley announced Friday that Park View offensive line coach Danny McGrath will be the school's new head football coach. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Tenorio</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[View]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assistant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coach]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danny McGrath]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlantic Coast Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Tech Hokies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Sheppard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janeen Schutte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Red Cross Ends Ride Program In Loudoun ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071201227.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071201227.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:25:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Loudoun County chapter of the American Red Cross has ended a program that gave seniors, veterans and disabled residents free rides to medical appointments, one of several cutbacks prompted by waning donations and the worsening economy. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Red]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cross]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ends]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ride]]></category><category><![CDATA[Program]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Two Clinics for the Poor To Consider Merging ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070900009.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070900009.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has asked the operators of two clinics for low-income patients to consider collaborating more closely and perhaps merging in the hopes of improving health care for the county's poorest residents. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinics]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poor]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merging]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Community Health Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Goodfriend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephanie Kenyon]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Residents Divided On Sports Complex ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070900010.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070900010.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dozens of Ashburn residents debated the merits of a proposed 40-acre sports complex for more than two hours at a public hearing Monday night, with supporters citing a dire need for more playing fields and opponents worrying about noise, lighting and traffic.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184126918" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184126918" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Residents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Divided]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category><category><![CDATA[Complex]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Bourassa]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land Use Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Bicer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Saavedra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freedom High School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Minority Groups Decry Ouster of School Advocate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802690.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802690.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County's minority community is criticizing school officials for failing to renew the contract of the district's first supervisor for outreach. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Minority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Groups]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ouster]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advocate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Bennett-Roberts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reginald A. Early]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Bourne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayde B. Byard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Public Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Md. Puts Roadkill To Work on Roadsides ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501401.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501401.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area motorists kill more than 3,000 deer annually. What, then, to do with all that roadkill? ]]></description><dc:creator>Dan Morse</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Md.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roadkill]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Work]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roadsides]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Hahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Beyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Mullinix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Morgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carroll County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Dierkes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Moeller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Salmon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missoula]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winchester (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Department of Natural Resources]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland State Highway Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valley Proteins Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A New Home Opens for Fighting Homelessness ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070304110.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070304110.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Good Shepherd Alliance, Loudoun County's largest service provider to the homeless, has moved its headquarters to Ashburn. ]]></description><dc:creator>Arianne Aryanpur</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opens]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fighting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center of Hope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Good Shepherd Alliance Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Eamich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Rust]]></category><category><![CDATA[Department of Family Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Helping Folks Get Their Finances in Order ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070304108.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070304108.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Guy Johnson is no financial guru. But in the past year, he has helped nearly 50 Loudoun County families balance their checkbooks, improve credit scores and navigate the foreclosure landscape.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184127613" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184127613" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Helping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Folks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Get]]></category><category><![CDATA[Their]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finances]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Order]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guy Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Samuels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcus White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chantilly High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Volunteer Financial Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Housing Development Authority]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Roadkill Is Put To Work Along Md. Highways ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070500902.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070500902.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:48:05 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area motorists kill more than 3,000 deer annually. What, then, to do with all that roadkill? ]]></description><dc:creator>Dan Morse</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Roadkill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Put]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Work]]></category><category><![CDATA[Along]]></category><category><![CDATA[Md.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Highways]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Where the Car Is King, Tysons Faces a Dilemma ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402512.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402512.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Think there's no such thing as too much parking? Take a look at Tysons Corner, where there's more parking than jobs, more parking than office space, more parking than in downtown Washington. ]]></description><dc:creator>Amy Gardner</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Where]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Car]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[King,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stewart Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheryl Cort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Tyler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition for Smarter Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Diner Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Zimmerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reid Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosslyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scotts Run]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foster Real Estate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Macerich Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zipcar Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Backlash to Rapid Growth Extends To New Services and Infrastructure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402497.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402497.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Call it growth fatigue. Across Loudoun County, residents weary of the intense growth that has gripped their community over the past decade are fighting back, not against housing developments or shopping centers, but against schools, cellphone towers, a sheriff's substation, even a hospital. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Backlash]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rapid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Extends]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen J. Snow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Hines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Piedmont Environmental Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam C. Adamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Census Bureau]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ HCA Hires Children's to Help With Embattled Hospital ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103466.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103466.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Officials from Hospital Corporation of America and Children's National Medical Center announced Monday they will collaborate on staffing, training and equipment for pediatric care at a proposed hospital in Broadlands if the project is approved.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184128675" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184128675" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[HCA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hires]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children's]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Help]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embattled]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[HCA Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Foust]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhonda Paice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Che Parker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children's National Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter R. Holbrook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Broadlands Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Circuit Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pediatric Emergency Department]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandhya Somashekhar]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supervisors Kill Deal for Schools Site ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103465.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103465.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to reject a request by the school district to buy 174 acres in Ashburn to build three schools, saying that the deal struck by school officials was too costly and that the process for buying land for schools was flawed. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supervisors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Site]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrea McGimsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purcellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. DuPree]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam C. Adamo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodgrove High School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 70 Foreign Officials on Field Trip to Leesburg ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103407.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103407.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ About 70 military and civilian officials from Eastern Europe and central Asia are visiting Leesburg tomorrow to watch the town's Independence Day parade and learn about American values. ]]></description><dc:creator>Arianne Aryanpur</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[70]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foreign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Officials]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trip]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Rose]]></category><category><![CDATA[George C. Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick L. Morefield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mongolia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tajikistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun Board Bars Use Of Builder Campaign Funds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102908.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070102908.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County supervisors voted yesterday to bar themselves from accepting campaign contributions from builders and others with proposals before the board as part of a broad effort to restore public confidence in a body that some have viewed as too close to the development community. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bars]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Builder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Funds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen J. Snow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Maistros]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Tulloch]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Clem]]></category><category><![CDATA[John A. Andrews II]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mick Staton Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Man Found Dead at Loudoun County Detention Center ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070101986.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070101986.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 21-year-old Sterling man was found dead in the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center this morning, authorities said.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184129565" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184129565" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Bill Brubaker</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Found]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pressures Mount for Chief Of Prince William Schools ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901979.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901979.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After a school year marked by academic and administrative controversy, Prince William County Superintendent Steven L. Walts retains rock-solid School Board support as he seeks to raise the reputation of Virginia's second-largest school system. But his relationships with many parents have fractured,... ]]></description><dc:creator>Ian Shapira</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pressures]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chief]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince]]></category><category><![CDATA[William]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven L. Walts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Kisha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vern Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Donlon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Milton C. Johns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betty Covington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward L. Kelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Barlow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Bilik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynn Heller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melvin Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotsylvania County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven A. Achramovitch]]></category><category><![CDATA[W.S. Covington III]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York State United Teachers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pearson Education Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upstate New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Toll Road Scofflaws, Beware: State Says Pay Up ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062802197.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062802197.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For years, dodging payments on the Dulles Toll Road was virtually risk-free. Now, it's more like an extreme sport. ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael Laris</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scofflaws,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beware:]]></category><category><![CDATA[State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isham Ahmed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald P. McDonough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Stanley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scarlett Araujo]]></category><category><![CDATA[E-ZPass]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah E. Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gloucester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Schroeder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suzy Swain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Acura Motors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Site of Sheriff's Substation to Be Revisited ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062704023.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062704023.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is reconsidering a plan to build a sheriff's substation on the western edge of Round Hill, after residents objected to the location and scope of the project. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Site]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheriff's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Substation]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revisited]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Luckard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Sheriff's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ County Joins Prescription Discount Program ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062704022.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062704022.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Getting prescription drugs at bargain prices has become a little easier for Loudoun County residents.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184130375" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184130375" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prescription]]></category><category><![CDATA[Discount]]></category><category><![CDATA[Program]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Goodfriend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Ryburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[CVS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food Lion LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Association of Counties]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rite Aid Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Smoking to Be Banned On All School Grounds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703322.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703322.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Come Jan. 1, Loudoun County public school employees will no longer be able to light up on campus. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Smoking]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Banned]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grounds]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. DuPree]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Public Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Warren Geurin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Parents Try Recruiting to Save Small Class Sizes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401985.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401985.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Amy Birtel-Smith remembers being shocked when she was told at a parent-teacher conference several years ago that her son, then a second-grader at a large elementary school in Prince William County, was behind in reading. ]]></description><dc:creator>Arianne Aryanpur</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Try]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Save]]></category><category><![CDATA[Small]]></category><category><![CDATA[Class]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sizes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middleburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teri Domanski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Birtel-Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edgar B. Hatrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Priscilla Godfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayde Byard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheryl Hutchinson]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Overcrowding at Restaurant, Some See Wider Ills ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401984.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401984.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Days after authorities temporarily shut down a Sterling restaurant for overcrowding, some are saying the episode is an example of things gone wrong in the community. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overcrowding]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Restaurant,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[See]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia Carranza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Brower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Becky Gettings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Sheriff's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun Policy on Illegal Immigrants Questioned ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003478.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003478.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The American Civil Liberties Union expressed concern Friday about plans by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office to check the immigration status of anyone arrested in the county who is suspected of being in the United States illegally.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184130993" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184130993" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Bill Brubaker</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illegal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Questioned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen O. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Sheriff's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kent Willis]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ambulance Charges By Fairfax Criticized ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003476.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003476.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County supervisors are considering asking for a legal review of Fairfax County's plan to impose ambulance fees on the patients it picks up in Loudoun. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ambulance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[By]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Criticized]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Roberts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Board of Supervisors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Line Blurs Between Play, Gunplay ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101756.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101756.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An alarm went off one night at Potowmack Elementary School in Sterling, and a surveillance camera recorded the scene: five intruders in masks and hoods darting through hallways and corridors, their assault rifles pointed. ]]></description><dc:creator>Donna St. George</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Line]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blurs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Between]]></category><category><![CDATA[Play,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gunplay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danni Rosales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Mirarchi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jong Cha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potowmack Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beaverton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Hellmuth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Bishop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kraig Troxell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Hartnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Redwood City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Whitcraft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Wolfson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Teret]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upper Darby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayde Byard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hitwise Pty. Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins Center for Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Braddock Secondary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[LEGO Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pokemon USA Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ambulance Fees by Fairfax Criticized ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062100749.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062100749.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County supervisors are considering asking for a legal review of Fairfax County's plan to impose ambulance fees on the patients it picks up in Loudoun. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ambulance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fees]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Criticized]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Roberts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Board of Supervisors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Battle Against the Bulldozers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062100746.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062100746.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The 69-year-old redbrick building at 24244 Gum Spring Rd. shows its age.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184131965" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184131965" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Battle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulldozers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arcola School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caroline County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kostelny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tina Calhoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arcola Community Center Advisory Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles South Multipurpose Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern Government Services Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Battle Against the Bulldozers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003508.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003508.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The 69-year-old redbrick building at 24244 Gum Spring Rd. shows its age. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kameel Stanley</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Battle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulldozers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arcola School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caroline County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kostelny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tina Calhoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arcola Community Center Advisory Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles South Multipurpose Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern Government Services Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ County's Plan to Check Immigration Status Under Scrutiny ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002133.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002133.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:44:58 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The American Civil Liberties Union today asked the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office for documents related to its plans to check the immigration status of all people arrested in the county who are suspected of being in the United States illegally. ]]></description><dc:creator>Bill Brubaker</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[County's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Check]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Status]]></category><category><![CDATA[Under]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scrutiny]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Leesburg Man Arrested in Counterfeiting Scam ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061901780.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061901780.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:04:58 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's not like Benjamin Franklin or Independence Hall looked any different. But there was something about those hundred-dollar bills that just didn't seem right. ]]></description><dc:creator>Bill Brubaker</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrested]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Counterfeiting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scam]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ An Elementary History Lesson ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703150.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703150.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Janet Wiggins was a student at Loudoun's all-black Banneker Elementary School in the 1950s, she used hand-me-down textbooks from white students. Her school didn't have a library, so she checked out books every couple of weeks from a bookmobile.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184132628" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184132628" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Arianne Aryanpur</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elementary]]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lesson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Banneker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Lloyd]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Wiggins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vicki Petrosky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Banneker Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middleburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middletown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglass High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Education Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Unkempt Properties Are Closer To Cleanup ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703149.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703149.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday moved toward cracking down on unkempt lawns and other signs of neglect that residents say have diminished living conditions in neighborhoods in the eastern part of the county. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Unkempt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Properties]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closer]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleanup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bowers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Women's College World Series Caps Standout Year for Hokies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703061.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061703061.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former Loudoun Valley standout Jessica Everhart, a two-time All-Met selection who helped lead the Vikings to two Virginia AA state championships, reached the biggest stage in collegiate softball this season, starting 62 games as a junior center fielder for Virginia Tech as the Hokies made their... ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Tenorio</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Women's]]></category><category><![CDATA[College]]></category><category><![CDATA[World]]></category><category><![CDATA[Series]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Standout]]></category><category><![CDATA[Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hokies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlantic Coast Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jessica Everhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Tech Hokies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nick von Gersdorff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angela Tincher]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry I. Willett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Longwood University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Memorial Allowed After Debate Over Expression ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061304246.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061304246.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What expression would an 18th-century woman have donned as her husband left for war? It depends on which government official you ask. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jonathan Mummolo</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Memorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allowed]]></category><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expression]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Moison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrea McGimsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judith Lindsay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Burk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott K. York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevens Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun Revolutionary War Memorial Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun To Check Residency In Arrests ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702580.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702580.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County law enforcement officials said yesterday they will start routinely checking the immigration status of all people arrested in the county if deputies suspect they are in the United States illegally, implementing a policy similar to one that set off controversy in neighboring Prince W...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184133145" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/va/loudoun;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=342184133145" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Bill Brubaker</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Check]]></category><category><![CDATA[Residency]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrests]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen O. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene Delgaudio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelly Burk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandhya Somashekhar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theresa Vargas]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When 'Airport Business' Is a Ticket to Less Traffic ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502136.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502136.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John Van Vliet commutes from Harpers Ferry, W.Va., to Alexandria every day. And almost every day he stops at Dulles International Airport, not to catch a flight, but to buy a 99 cent cup of coffee at the sole gas station on airport property. He makes sure to get a receipt. ]]></description><dc:creator>Eric M. Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[When]]></category><category><![CDATA['Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Business']]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ticket]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Less]]></category><category><![CDATA[Traffic]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Van Vliet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pierce Homer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Holl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Express Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danielle Delgado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[James E. DeFord Sr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purcellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tigi Zewdie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Town Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia State Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marriott International Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Confession In Slaying Challenged ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061304231.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061304231.html?nav=rss_metro/va/loudoun</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDa