<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><description>Post</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[$100,000 Payment Ends D.C. Slots Bid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51518-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51518-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gambling promoters from the U.S. Virgin Islands paid $100,000 yesterday to D.C. elections officials as part of an agreement that ends for now their campaign to legalize slot machines in the nation's capital.]]></description><author> Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Slots Effort Revived in Bid for 2006 Ballot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51641-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51641-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A group of gambling promoters from the U.S. Virgin Islands has quietly revived its campaign to legalize slot machines in the nation's capital, circulating petitions over the Christmas holiday aimed at putting the issue before District voters in 2006.]]></description><author> Serge F. Kovaleski  and Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['The Flash' Creator Harry Lampert Dies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48457-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48457-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Harry Lampert, 88, the artist who first drew the DC Comics hero The Flash and author of four books on bridge, died of a cerebral hemorrhage Nov. 13 at Boca Raton Community Hospital in Florida. He lived in Deerfield Beach, Fla.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financing Behind D.C. Slots Murky]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30891-2004Jul31.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30891-2004Jul31.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are new questions about who stands to benefit if slots come to Washington.]]></description><author> Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undercover to Bust  Wildlife Smugglers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60204-2004Jul18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60204-2004Jul18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[First as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement agent and later as the head of the agency's Miami enforcement office, Jorge Picon has worked for 30 years as a kind of high-stakes pet detective]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurance Rockefeller Dies at 94]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43444-2004Jul11.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43444-2004Jul11.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Laurance S. Rockefeller, 94, an early leader in venture capitalism who used his family's oil fortune to fund conservation efforts and aviation enterprises, died July 11 at his home in New York City. He had pulmonary fibrosis.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Slots Proponents Launch Petition Blitz]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21877-2004Jul1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21877-2004Jul1.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Paid petition circulators push to collect signatures before a Tuesday deadline to get a proposal to legalize slot machines on the Nov. 2 ballot.]]></description><author> Serge F. Kovaleski</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Slots Effort Pays Advocates $120,000]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A794-2004Jun23.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A794-2004Jun23.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A financier from the U.S. Virgin Islands who is funding a campaign to bring slot machines to the nation's capital has incurred expenses of more than $250,000, including more than $120,000 paid or owed to businessman Pedro Alfonso and former D.C. Council member John Ray, the drive's leading local advocates.]]></description><author> Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism Shadows D.C. Slots Catalyst]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56463-2004Jun20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56463-2004Jun20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Drive to build gambling venture is underway despite early backer's history of failing to obtain gambling licenses in other states.]]></description><author> Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veterans of Big Storms Don't Take Isabel Lightly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32197-2003Sep18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32197-2003Sep18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Donna M. Christensen remembers Betsy and Frederick and David and, especially, Marilyn.]]></description><author> Manny Fernandez</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists on the Block?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55848-2003Jul14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55848-2003Jul14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is considering privatizing archaeological oversight of hundreds of national parks and landmarks and firing the National Park Service archaeologists who for decades have been charged with protecting their historic value and cultural heritage.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[215 Million Reasons to Play, Dream]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24077-2002Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24077-2002Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Marie Agricola, 64, unconcerned about the laws of probability, borrowed her son's car and drove from her Gaithersburg townhouse to Northwest Washington to buy a chance -- 20, actually -- to win yesterday's estimated $215 million Powerball jackpot.]]></description><author> Lena H. Sun</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Back Campaign  Finance Law]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20556-2002Nov6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20556-2002Nov6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nineteen states filed a court motion in the District of Columbia yesterday in support of the embattled new McCain-Feingold campaign finance law that is facing a federal court challenge from more than 80 plaintiffs.]]></description><author> Neely Tucker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tight-Knit Town Can't See in Suspect The Boy They Knew]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10470-2002Nov5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10470-2002Nov5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[BATON ROUGE, La. -- When John Allen Muhammad visited his boyhood home in Scotlandville in July, he spent more than an hour on the telephone with former high school classmate Janet M. Scott, an organizer for his upcoming 25th class reunion. She had not heard from Muhammad in 14 years, and he volunteered an impressive update on his life.]]></description><author> Marcia Slacum Greene</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime in the Caribbean: A  Reality Check]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45699-2001Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45699-2001Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An honest look at an elusive and growing problem  in the islands.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chunnel Vision]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48557-2001Jan25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48557-2001Jan25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Q We'll be in London and would like to take a Channel Tunnel trip. Does anyone offer a guided day trip to either Paris or Brussels?]]></description><author> Carol Sottili</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islands Brace For Debby's First Punch]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1732-2000Aug21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1732-2000Aug21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/usvirginislands/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 8:56:02 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Debby raced across the Atlantic toward landfall today, prompting residents of many of the tiny northeastern Caribbean islands to board up windows and search for emergency supplies as they braced for a possible hurricane.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>