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WHY DENVER? DEMS SEE NEW BATTLEGROUNDS: (Washington Bureau)
By Billy House
Media General News Service
WASHINGTON -- Why Denver?
Why are Democrats holding their national convention next week in the hub of the Rocky Mountains rather than a traditional presidential battleground state like Florida or Ohio, or some other large-delegate state like New York?
After all, the last time a party held its convention in Denver was in 1908. That year, the nominee, William Jennings Bryan, went on to be handed his worst loss in three tries at the hands of Republican William Howard Taft.
The selection of Denver for this year's Democratic convention Monday through next Thursday is cast by some as a well-timed outreach to the so-called "New West" - in particular, the mountain states of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and Idaho that have been taken for granted by Republicans, but may now be turning purple.
MARINE AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY IN IDENTITY THEFT CASE: (The Tampa Tribune)
By: JOSH POLTILOVE And THOMAS W. KRAUSE
Media General News Service
TAMPA - A former U.S. Marine lance corporal, known to neighbors for parading around an apartment complex with a ceremonial sword, has agreed to plead guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to order a plasma television online.
Steven LeeFickey, 30, is accused of using the identities of 18 people without their consent to purchase nearly $114,000 worth of items through a Web site maintained by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court.
Among the service members whose identities were stolen was a Marine serving in Iraq, according to a complaint filed in 2007.
By pleading to the theft of the plasma television, charges related to stealing the identities of other Marines will be dropped.
WEBB TO SPLIT TIME AT DNC AND VETERANS CONVENTION: (Washington Bureau)
By NEIL H. SIMON
Media General News Service
WASHINGTON-Sen. James Webb's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, and his scheduled appearance at the American Legion conference next week in Phoenix, will make him the only national Democrat to address both major veterans groups in person this election season.
VDOT LAUNCHES ENHANCED 511 TRAFFIC WEB SITE: (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
BY PETER BACQUÉ
Media General News Service
VDOT is launching an improved 511 traffic information Web site today.
Travelers can personalize information about construction, accidents and driving directions and receive free mobile alerts.
"It will look different and have more information in it," said Jeff Caldwell, the Virginia Department of Transportation's communications director.
U.S. YANKS GREEN CARD FOR UVA MEDICAL RESEARCHER: (The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress)
By Brian McNeill
bmcneill@dailyprogress.com | 978-7266
A University of Virginia medical researcher from the Middle East has been placed on leave without pay after the federal government denied his green card application and revoked his work authorization.
Dr. Alaa Awad, a 35-year-old kidney disease expert, believes his application to continue his work in the United States was rejected because he is a Muslim and Egyptian.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied Awad's application because it said he lacked a year's worth of relevant research experience prior to Sept. 28, 2004.
Awad asserts that's untrue.
PRESSURE FOR POLICE CHIEF'S DEGREE CITED: (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Former VCU official says
'administrator' exerted
influence to approve it
BY MICHAEL MARTZ
AND KARIN KAPSIDELIS
Media General News Service
The former coordinator of VCU's interdisciplinary studies program says she was pressured to approve an improper degree for former Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe, but she ultimately refused.
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