GREENSBORO, N.C. — They want it all. Every private jet receipt, every handwritten note, every voice-mail transcript.    No scrap of evidence introduced in the four weeks of John Edwards’s corruption trial is too trivial for a second look by the punctilious jury that entered its fifth day of deliberations Thursday in a downtown federal courthouse in this Piedmont region city. During its first four days of deliberations, the jury sent notes to the judge requesting 23 prosecution exhibits, most dealing with the $700,000 that Virginia heiress Rachel “Bunny” Mellon funneled to Edwards’s cohorts while he was running for president and later angling for a vice presidential nod in 2008. But on Thursday, the jury said it wanted more — much more.  Read full article > >

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John Edwards jury wants second look at all the evidence

See something? Say something. And please, be precise. It was just after 10 a.m. Wednesday when a Loop Fan, driving in from Virginia across the Memorial Bridge , noticed a red VW bug, blinkers flashing, stopped just about halfway across the bridge. Read full article > >

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In the Loop: A communications gap to bridge between D.C. and Arlington

“THE FREEDOM TO MARRY has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.” So wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1967 ruling in Loving v. Virginia , the landmark case declaring unconstitutional the anti-miscegenation laws on the books in 16 states. Among those whose parents’ interracial marriage would have been illegal in Virginia at the time he was born is President Obama. On Wednesday, Mr. Obama for the first time declared his view that gay and lesbian Americans should be able to marry as well. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: President Obama’s welcome support of gay marriage

Nearly 40 percent in W. Virginia primary.

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Inmate Garners Votes Versus Obama

All nine states — Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin — voted for President Obama in 2008 but have since seen big Republican gains.

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9 Swing States, Critical to Presidential Race, Are Mixed Lot

Targets swing states of Ohio and Virginia.

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Obama Holds First Rallies

To win Virginia, political analysts say President Obama will have to extend his 2008 inroads in the rapidly growing suburbs deep in the more traditionally Southern parts of the state.

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Virginia, a State in Flux, Is Also a State in Play

Newt Gingrich repeated what he’s been saying for more than a week: He’s officially suspending his campaign.

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The Caucus: Gingrich Quits Race; Prefers Romney to Obama

George Allen, a Republican, and Tim Kaine, a Democrat, are in a tight race for a seat both sides see as potentially decisive when it comes to party control of the Senate.

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Virginia Senate Race a Choice of Ex-Governors

My parting glance through the rental car window confirmed what I already knew: On my road trip to West Virginia, I wasn’t going to miss Shell or its $4.04-per-gallon gas. In a moment of weakness, I might lean on the station for a cold beverage or a restroom, but not for fuel. Read full article > >

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One-tank trip from D.C. to West Virginia

The United States has just lost a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda terrorists: the residents of Virginia, and state employees in particular. Virginia’s legislature recently passed a bill that forbids state employees, including police and members of the National Guard, from participating in the investigation, surveillance, detention or arrest of any suspected member of al-Qaeda or its affiliates, if that suspect is a U.S. citizen. Read full article > >

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Virginia detainee law is dangerously unconstitutional

President to visit Ohio and Virginia.

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Obama Announces First Campaign Stops

Two managers of a supermarket have been accused of illegally selling wildlife, illustrating what some see as a cultural fault line in a changing population.

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As Asians Flock to Northern Virginia, Laws and Palates Collide

Even now, he won’t go back inside. Kevin Sterne hasn’t reentered Norris Hall since four police officers rushed his limp body out of the blood-soaked building in the chaos of April 16, 2007 — a horrifying moment captured in a photograph that became a defining image of the Virginia Tech tragedy. Read full article > >

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A massacre’s survivors: Recovery and resilience at Va. Tech

Virginia is set to begin enforcing the region’s toughest drunken-driving penalty, one that will require thousands of first-time DUI offenders to install in their cars breathalyzers that can lock the ignition, whether they were highly intoxicated or slightly over the limit. Read full article > >

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