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    Report: Federal court upholds forced entry stemming from DUI
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    The Supreme Court has long maintained that police can not forcibly enter someone's home without a warrant on the suspicion of driving under the influence, but a federal appeals court recently upheld a case in which a Virginia officer did just that. On October 3, 2004, Alan J. Cilman had dinner ...

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    Bugatti looking for a student intern to drive Veyrons, fetch dry cleaning
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    2011 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Ah, to be in college again. The enlightenment. The drinking. The promiscuity. The million-dollar supercars. Wait, what? That's right. Bugatti is looking for a student intern at their office in Herndon, Virginia, to ...

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    REPORT: Virginia rankles motorists by closing half of all rest-stops amidst budget woes
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    Motorists traveling through Virginia take note: It's time to get used to crossing your legs just a wee bit tighter on long trips through the Old Dominion as the Virginia Department of Transportation has closed nearly half of all its interstate rest areas. The cited reason? Budgetary shortfalls... ...

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    Whither Suburbia? Virginia all but outlaws cul-de-sac construction in face of traffic costs
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    Virginia lawmakers are taking a metaphorical battering ram to suburban culs-de-sac, those little dead-end roundabouts that are almost all adorned with a yellow sign saying "No Outlet." Caught out by spiraling maintenance and development costs, the Washington Post reports that legislators are now ...

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    VA driver's licenses going black-and-white to thwart counterfeiters
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    To aid in the fight against counterfeiting, Virginia is combining new tech with old: lasers and black & white photography. The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles has ceased issuing licenses made from layers of plastic, replacing them with cards that use neither layers nor photographs. The ...

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    VIDEO: 6-year-old learns to drive in GTA, takes mom's Taurus to school
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    "How many times have I told you to stop playing those video games and go to school?" For any kid addicted to his xBox or PlayStation 3, that's bound to sound familiar. The clever (or fortunate) ones will manage to keep the fun rolling with a PSP or Nintendo DS, but ...

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    Raising taxes through speed traps
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    As many states and local municipalities struggle to balance budgets and find funding for services like police protection, it seems like many are turning to alternative means of raising revenues. Since politicians are invariably loathe to actually raise taxes to pay for the services that people ...

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    Improvements in Virginia brought to you by new fines on speeders
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    So they're not out to break a speeder's bank like Indiana, but Virginia has created a host of civil fines for speeders that will pay for the state's new annual $1 billion transportation package. That means that after July 1, not only will you get a bill from the judge for speeding, you will then ...

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    Virginia adds replica car category to title process
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    Beginning on July 1, kit/replica/component car buyers in Virginia will be able to title their vehicles in a different way. It seems the Virginia General Assembly has approved a new law allowing these vehicles to be registered as whatever model year the replica represents. The big advantage there ...

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    Toyota poised to build plant number eight in US
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    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Toyota is in the process of scouting locations and performing feasibility studies on opening another plant in the U.S.The addition of another manufacturing center within the States would make the total number of ToMoCo plants rise to eight, further shoring ...

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