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Virginia Lund and Christopher Richard Miller were married Saturday at the Woodend Sanctuary, an event space that is part of the Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase, Md. The Rev. James A. Todhunter, a retired minister of the United Church of... Full Article at The New York Times

Gonzaga fought off a hard last-second sprint from Ridley of Folsom (Pa.), which closed the Eagles’ margin of victory to just over six-tenths of a second in the race’s final meters. St. Albans, which won the boy’s first eight at Virginia Scholastic... Full Article at The Washington Post

But just last Wednesday, Mr. Boehner refuted his own argument by ramming through the House a bill that seriously weakens the Violence Against Women Act. That followed the Republican push in Virginia and elsewhere to require medically unnecessary and... Full Article at The New York Times

Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. On Fox, Mr. Ryan faces off with Austan Goolsbee , former White House economic adviser and an Obama campaign surrogate. CBS’s “Face the Nation” features two members of the Senate... Full Article at The New York Times

Times Union reported. Hospital officials said the girl had already had a CT scan, spinal tap and blood work and the tests all were normal. However, Dr. Karen Powers, a pediatric neurologist at Albany Med, examined the girl and said she had seen a... Full Article at United Press International

There is a lesson that this mind-bending year of realignment taught everyone: paradigms shift and conferences are often gutted because of unintended consequences. The potential for a chain reaction was raised again Friday when news emerged that the Big... Full Article at The New York Times

The report also found that 15 percent of voters earning less than $35,000 per year do not have such an ID. According to Project Vote, a voting-rights advocacy group, about 15,000 people voted without identification in Virginia in 2008. A centerpiece of... Full Article at The Washington Post

Virginia Legislature disgraced itself last week, rejecting the nomination of Tracy Thorne-Begland , a widely respected prosecutor, to be the first openly gay judge on the Commonwealth bench. Mr. Thorne-Begland was the only one of 37 nominees denied... Full Article at The New York Times

NCAA lacrosse tournaments Men’s quarterfinals Today in Annapolis Maryland vs. No. 2 Johns Hopkins, noon (ESPN2) Denver vs. No. 1 Loyola, 2:30 (ESPN2) Tomorrow in Chester, Pa. No. 5 Virginia vs. No. 4 Notre Dame, noon (ESPNU) Colgate vs. No. 3 Duke, 2:30... Full Article at The Washington Post

McLean senior defender Caroline Gray described it, the last 10 minutes against No. 3 Stone Bridge in Friday’s Virginia AAA Liberty District final were scary, nerve-wracking and exciting — all at once. For 70 minutes in Vienna, the Highlanders’ strength... Full Article at The Washington Post

Virginia-based Piedmont Airlines pilot was arrested today at the Buffalo airport for trying to bring a loaded .357 Magnum aboard a LaGuardia-bound flight. Authorities said he had flown seven other flights since Wednesday with the gun in his bag, the... Full Article at USA Today

They had taken their boat out to the rusted tug hulk in mid-river. They had tried Rich Man’s Cove, on the Virginia shore. Clarence Eggleston, 10, a fifth-grader at Southwest’s Amidon-Bowen Elementary School , and Danny Moffat, 54, a retired UPS driver... Full Article at The Washington Post

Bile, the defending state champion, had no trouble in the four-lapper. He led from the start and, despite taking a week off to let a few scrapes and bruises heal , pulled away from W.T. Woodson’s Paul Gates to win in a personal-best 4 minutes 8.67... Full Article at The Washington Post

"The RNLA applauds Governor McDonnell for his leadership and support for election reform." In addition to signing the voter ID bill, Full Article at PR Newswire

They need only look in the mirror. Jay Fisette, Arlington The writer, a Democrat, is a member of the Arlington County Board. Last week, Republican legislators in Virginia blocked the nomination of Tracy Thorne-Begland for a judgeship, a move that The... Full Article at The Washington Post

Last week, Republican legislators in Virginia blocked the nomination of Tracy Thorne-Begland for a judgeship, a move that The Post correctly called bigotry [ “Bigotry’s triumph,” editorial, May 16]. Opponents of Mr. Thorne-Begland, who is gay and a... Full Article at The Washington Post

Because a full half wasn’t completed, the teams started all over again on Wednesday — a game George Mason won, 3-2. On Thursday at Potomac Falls, the two Bull Run District rivals met again for the third time in as many days, this time in a one-game... Full Article at The Washington Post

However, a referendum to repeal the law appears on the November ballot. But with the Court of Appeals ruling, the Post said, same-sex couples would still have the right to divorce. The decision came in the case of Jessica Port and Virginia Anne Cowan,... Full Article at United Press International