<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Virginia</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va?nav=rss_metro/va</link><description>Virginia</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Review Clears Deputy in Fatal Shooting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11134-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11134-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The fatal shooting of an armed Ashburn man by a Loudoun County sheriff's deputy in March was justified, according to a Sheriff's Office investigation and a review by Loudoun County's top prosecutor.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Seniors, More Needs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11133-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11133-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As Loudoun County's population swells, so does the demand for services for the elderly. Senior centers have waiting lists. Outings for active older residents are booked months in advance. Social services agencies are jammed with requests for health referrals and programs.]]></description><author> Daniele Seiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonprofit Eyes Net Gains in Public Safety]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11098-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11098-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It has organizational flowcharts and 11 pages of bylaws. It has committees, brochures and a handful of board members.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking in Loudoun's Shoes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11149-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11149-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bob Aiken had mixed emotions when he learned that Flagler County, where his Palm Coast home is located, had been ranked the fastest-growing county in the United States.]]></description><author> Ron Word</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[County Teachers to Get Tailored Career Development]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11114-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11114-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By the beginning of the 2006-07 academic year, schoolteachers in Prince William County should have a new professional development program offering courses that will be more specialized and tailored to their experience levels, school administrators said last week.]]></description><author> Ian Shapira</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manassas Police Officer Mourned]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11113-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11113-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Some knew him as J.K., others as Jimmy, and still others just called him Jim.]]></description><author> Tara Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appeals Court Upholds Verdict in Sword Killing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11099-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11099-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND  --  The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the murder and conspiracy convictions of a woman who arranged the sword slaying of her father in Loudoun County.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Court Upholds Muhammad Sentences]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8824-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8824-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Virginia Supreme Court upheld the convictions and death sentences of sniper John Allen Muhammad, saying he had acted with "breathless cruelty."]]></description><author> Carol Morello</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honoring a School-Bound Girl]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10770-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10770-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Mourners were still filtering into the church half an hour after yesterday's funeral mass for Lilibeth Gomez began. By then, ushers had run out of white candles tied with pink ribbons and programs printed with a photo of the beaming 9-year-old, and the Northwest Washington church was standing room only.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gathering Aims to Forge Tysons Vision]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10721-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10721-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The campaign to transform Tysons Corner from a sprawling suburban crossroads into a more traditional urban center began in earnest yesterday, as more than 200 Northern Virginia business and civic leaders convened to discuss how best to reshape the commercial hub.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman Hospitalized After Two-Story Fall]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10281-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10281-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When they arrived at the Lansdowne home, Loudoun County sheriff's deputies found a 30-year-old woman bleeding and bruised on the pavement in the back yard where she either jumped or fell out a second-story window. Upstairs, alone in a bathtub, were her two young children, who doctors later determined had suffered, too.]]></description><author> Tara Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alexandria Man, Dog Killed Crossing Street]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10719-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10719-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Michael Finucan was a cautious man, his wife said, not one to try to cross a busy, dimly lighted street in the pouring rain. So it baffles her that he did just that early yesterday while walking the family's dog.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions Linger on Moussaoui's Role in 9/11]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10300-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10300-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Zacarias Moussaoui may be the first defendant convicted in U.S. courts in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but his guilty plea yesterday did little to answer the biggest remaining riddle in the case: Was Moussaoui supposed to be one of the hijackers that day?]]></description><author> Dan Eggen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mix of Ordinary, Drama at Courthouse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10404-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10404-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Near the soaring figure of blind Justice, her arms reaching out toward rows of television vans and satellite dishes, a nuclear materials detector had been installed yesterday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria  --  a white arch fitted with a black box and wires.]]></description><author> Stephanie McCrummen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Pleads Guilty in Lawyer's Abduction]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10282-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10282-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 38-year-old Alexandria man pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in the Dec. 7 abduction of a lawyer who was dragged from his home at gunpoint and taken to a freshly dug grave as part of a plot to force him to drop a lawsuit.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moussaoui Pleads Guilty In Terror Plot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9271-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9271-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty to taking part in a broad al Qaeda conspiracy that resulted in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, admitting that Osama bin Laden personally instructed him to fly an airplane into the White House.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indiscretion Gets Juror In Trouble]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7441-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7441-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A juror in a Prince William County murder trial is faced with fines and possible jail time after a surveillance tape from a 7-Eleven showed her purchasing a newspaper during the trial.]]></description><author> Tara Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crash Devastates 2nd Family]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maria Garcia fastened a photograph of her cousin Harrison Orosco to a tree in front of his house yesterday morning. Then she walked around the yard and picked up two soccer balls and a volleyball and placed them under the picture of the 7-year-old boy who would not be playing with them anymore.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawmaker Decries GMU Health Fair, 'Moral Depravity']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7992-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7992-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The clean-cut young man taking detailed notes stood out at a meeting of Pro-Choice Patriots at George Mason University on Wednesday night as the mostly female group discussed plans for its campuswide sexuality and health fair planned for next week.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four-Term Va. Delegate Has Higher Ambitions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7993-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7993-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:51:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, April 21  --  Del. Viola O. Baskerville of Richmond announced her campaign for lieutenant governor Thursday, formally entering a crowded Democratic field for Virginia's second-highest office.]]></description><author> Chris L. Jenkins</author></item></channel></rss>