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ARTICLES BY DENA POTTER

Midnight grocery runs capture desperation

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Once a month, just after midnight, the beeping checkout scanners at a Walmart just off Interstate 95 come alive in a chorus of financial desperation.
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Inmate: 'Only way to stop me' is death row

POUND, Va. - For seven days, Robert Gleason Jr. begged correctional officers and counselors at Wallens Ridge State Prison to move his new cellmate. The constant singing, screaming and obnoxious behavior were too much, and Gleason knew he was ready to snap.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Four missing W.Va. miners dead, final toll at 29

MONTCOAL, W.Va. - Rescue workers located four bodies deep in a West Virginia coal mine, dashing any faint hopes of finding more survivors of a deadly explosion that has claimed 29 lives, the worst U.S. mining disaster in a generation.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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