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Local News

Mother Nature Strikes Again
• Heavy rain, high tide blocks roads, closes schools and sweeps away boats

Kaine Pitches Highway Program
• Gov. Tim Kaine presents proposals to raise money for transportation maintenance and improvements; sets special legislative session for next month

Correction
• Correction

Rappahannock Up After Heavy Rainfall
• Rappahannock River crests below flood stage, but at highest level since 2003

Police Briefs
• Police briefs

Regional Brief
• Regional brief

Immigrants Find A Health-Care Home
• The area's newest clinic has become the medical home for many of the region's immigrants

Montreal Teacher Busted
• Canadian teacher accused of making ill-fated stop in Fredericksburg for liaison with 13-year-old boy

Home Invasion Suspects Sought
• Armed intruders rob city residents in their home

Spotsy School Board Saves Four New Facilities
• Spotsy works out schools budget


Sports

Luck Turns For Perez, Offense
• Nationals at Mets

Van Brocklin Earns Umw Individual Title
• Mary Washington roundup

Pullano Dreams Of Building A Power
• Commonwealth District notebook:

Who'S No. 5? Don'T Ask Nats
• Nationals notebook


Editorial

• Great achievements can arise from noticing what others pay no mind to, and then sticking by your insight, no matter what. Witness Velcro

• Here's an idea: Could Jim Webb be Barack Obama's choice for the No. 2 spot?


It! and MyLINE

A Fun Approach To Prom-Dress Disposal
• Web site encourages donation of gently used prom dresses

Forge Students Advance To Top Odyssey Match
• Colonial Forge Odyssey of the Mind team heads to world competition

What Would You Do To Stop Fishocide?
• What would you do to stop fishocide?

Social Site Is A Guilty Habit
• Facebook offers endless entertainment and information for one rising college freshman.


Life

Pick Up The Pace With This Week'S Contest
• Contest update

Mother Robin Inspires A Quest For Bird Books
• Local children's librarian watches robin's nest--and batch of books on the theme

Births
• Local birth announcements


Spotsylvania and City Extra

Building Design Rules Criticized
• Proposed commercial building standards criticized by developers

Youth Sports Highlights
• Youth Sports Highlights

Sports Notes
• Sports Notes

This College Grad Is Ready To Change The World
• Three decades later...

4-H Show Evokes Sawdust Memories
• Take a look at the 4-H Livestock Show and Sale.

Community Briefs
• Community Briefs

City Ends Vehicle Sticker, But You'Ll Still Pay For It
• Fredericksburg drops vehicle stickers, not property taxes

College Heights Pool Turns 50
• Private pool in city celebrates 50 years

Upcoming School Events
• Upcoming School Events

Girl Scouts Tackle Scavenger Hunt
• Spotsylvania Girl Scouts hold scavenger hunt

Spotsylvania Calendar
• Spotsylvania calendar

School News
• School News


Stafford Extra

Stafford Extra Rail
• Stafford Extra rail

Sports Notes
• Sports Notes

Military Notes
• Military Notes

Falmouth Falcons Come Home To Roost
• Falmouth Elementary holds reunion to celebrate 40th anniversary

Aztec Fete Marks A Coming Of Age
• What it's like to attend a Quinceañera party

This College Grad Is Ready To Change The World
• Three decades later...

Sheriff'S Office Honors 49 For Service In 2007
• Stafford honors law enforcement personnel

School News
• School News

Community Briefs
• Community Briefs

Kids Rock In Diabetes Battle
• Elementary school kids walk for diabetes cure


Business

Businesses Rebound From Thursday Winds
• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania businesses are recovering after suffering about $2.8 million in damages from Thursday's storm.


SPECIAL REPORT: Five years ago, the FBI and Virginia State Police said they were running forensic tests to determine every crime serial killer Richard Marc Evonitz committed. Instead, they relentlessly pursued another man. Today, the families of at least three slain women are left without answers. Click here to read this special report.

SPECIAL REPORT: Ready to Roll Reporter Rusty Dennen and Photographer Mike Morones spent three days in late August embedded with Delta Company's 3rd Platoon, a Fredericksburg National Guard unit headed to Kuwait as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Click here to see the series.

SPECIAL REPORT: Sisters, worlds apart. Free Lance-Star reporter Frank Delano visited Prince's Town, Fredericksburg's new sister city, during a July trip to Ghana, where he served in the Peace Corps 40 years ago. Check out the series.




Circumcision

Circumcision rates are dropping in the U.S. For a Healthy Living story, we'd like to hear from Fredericksburg-area parents about how they decided whether to circumcise their baby boys.

Please contact Janet Marshall at jmarshall@freelancestar.com (phone: 374-5527)


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