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  • Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell, Fairfax Democrat, addresses the committee as chairman, Mark Obenshain (right), Harrisonburg Republican, listens Jan. 15, 2013, during a meeting of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (Associated Press)

    Va. gun-show checks won't be expanded

    A Virginia Senate committee rejected legislation Monday that would have expanded background checks at gun shows after an attempted compromise between gun-control supporters and opponents pleased neither side.


  • Tom Hanks honored at Elie Wiesel Foundation gala

    When two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks found out he was being honored by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity at the New York Public Library, he remembered he owed a couple of books.


  • No. 1 Luke Donald comes full circle at Riviera

    Luke Donald was on the practice range at Riviera before dawn Wednesday, so dark that only temporary floodlights allowed him to see where the ball was going.


  • Donald gunning for European money title

    Top-rank Luke Donald looks to make history by winning both money titles, and says it would rank as one of his greatest achievements.


  • Donald aiming for money titles, history in Dubai

    Top-ranked Luke Donald will be encouraged by the memory of his father while making a run at history this weekend.


  • Nationals set-up man Tyler Clippard's unique arm angle allows him to blow fastballs past hitters with regularity. His 63 strikeouts are second among all relievers. (Associated Press)

    Nats' Clippard set up to succeed

    The road from Viera, Fla., to Syracuse, N.Y. is nearly 1,300 miles long. It's a grueling 20-hour trip from the Florida coast to the brink of the Canadian border, but in the spring of 2009, Tyler Clippard needed every minute of it.


  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Games to Play After Dark'

    ''Games to Play After Dark" opens with a scene that deserves to become a classic. Kate and her friend Darcy are giving a party in their Manhattan apartment. They spend the afternoon buying a ham and other lovely things from Balducci's, they go home, put the stuff away, get themselves ready for the party, and then Darcy starts cooking from the "The Union Square Cookbook."


  • ** FILE ** Police tape surrounds Virginia Tech's Norris Hall on April 18, 2007, two days after Seung-hui Cho killed 30 people there. (AP Photo, File)

    Virginia Tech fined $55,000 for response to shootings

    Nearly four years after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, victims' family members and campus safety advocates say it isn't the fine amount of $55,000 Virginia Tech faces that matters, but that the school finally will pay for the mistakes it made during the rampage.


  • Panel rejects closure of gun-show loophole

    RICHMOND (AP) — The heartbroken families of the Virginia Tech shooting victims suffered a second and probably final legislative defeat yesterday in their bid to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from buying firearms at gun shows.


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