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Newspaper
Harrisonburg Daily News Record
Location
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 2011
Page
1
Unofficial results list Virginia Night and Midday drawings with Pick 3 8-3-9 and 7-2-6, Pick 4 7-2-7-8 and 8-4-6-0, Cash 5 entries, and Powerball numbers. West Virginia Daily 3 and 4 also shown. AP provides unofficial results. Virginia verifications available by phone.
A compendium of 16 terse historical markers noting Jane Seymour’s death after childbirth in 1537, the 1648 Peace of Westphalia dissolving the Holy Roman Empire, the first transcontinental telegraph by Stephen Field in 1861, Anna Edson Taylor’s Niagara Falls barrel feat in 1901, the 1931 George Washington Bridge dedication, the 1940 40 hour work week under the War Labor Standards Act, the 1945 founding of the United Nations, UN headquarters construction in 1949, Eisenhower’s 1952 Korea pledge, and 1987 mentions of star Gere and related items.
Publi Agenda Today lists several Virginia meetings: Page County School Board at 7 p.m. in Luray at 735 W Main St with contact 540-843-2833. Rockingham County School Board at 7 p.m. at Turner Ashby High School Bridgewater with 564-3200. Harrisonburg City Council at 7 p.m. in council chambers 409 S Main St with 432-7701. Shenandoah County Supervisors at 7 p.m. in Woodstock County Government Center 600 N Main St with 540-459-6165. and Wednesday Board of Supervisors at 6 p.m. in Harrisonburg Administrative Center North Main and Gay streets with 564-3000.
Mark Lindquist, a social worker who saved three adults during the Joplin tornado, was hailed as a hero by both Missouri houses. He sustained severe injuries, incurred over 2.5 million dollars in medical costs, and faces ongoing prescriptions and surgeries without medical insurance after his workers' compensation claim was denied for lack of greater risk than the public at the time.
A National Guardsman drunk and firing on vehicles on a Georgia road killed Deputy James Paugh and then died by suicide. Spc Christopher Hodges, 26, fired 35 rounds from an M4 on Bobby Jones Expressway near 1 am. Hodges, on temporary duty at Fort Gordon, served in Tennessee National Guard.
Pope Benedict XVI canonized three 19th century founders of religious orders during a Mass in St Peter's Square while a man climbed onto the upper colonnade and burned a Bible. Vatican gendarmes bishop and the pope's bodyguard talked him down as thousands watched unfazed. The new saints are Monsignor Guido Maria Conforti, Sister Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro, and Rev. Luigi Guanella.
Argentina's Cristina Fernandez won re-election with about 53 percent of the vote as 43 percent of polling stations reported nationwide. Her nearest rival had 17 percent, and officials predicted continued growth from Buenos Aires province. Fernandez vowed to press her pro growth project, becoming Latin America's first woman re-elected president.
A brief misc notice notes Rockingham Publishing Co Inc operates daily except Sundays and major holidays from 231 South Liberty Street Harrisonburg Virginia 22801 with a fragmentary line about redicals post a.
Libya's interim rulers announced the country liberated on Sunday after an eight month civil war signaling a two year transition to democracy with an Islamist tone. The end of Muammar Gadhafi's 42 year rule was marked amid calls for inquiry into his death and questions over the rule of law. Britain and the United States urged a thorough investigation into whether Gadhafi was executed after being dragged from a drainage ditch.
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