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Oct. 18, 2011
World & Nation
Wildlife: Leesburg, Va., battled annual winter’s roost of hundreds of vultures for nearly a decade. An eradication expert got the better of them in a 7-day campaign.
Feb. 1, 1998
Authorities arrested nine top-ranking followers of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche in Leesburg, Va., Tuesday night on a New York state grand jury’s charges of conspiracy and fraud in connection with the group’s fund-raising activities.
March 18, 1987
It used to require a special occasion for folks in Leesburg to travel to Washington.
Jan. 17, 1994
California
Charity: Leesburg, Va., officials were stunned by the gift from the elderly man living in the Best Western. But it turns out he is worth at least $300 million.
May 25, 1997
A pilot was killed and his son injured when their single-engine plane crash-landed on a residential street in Leesburg, outside Washington.
July 7, 2002
Two corporations, three campaign committees and 10 individuals associated with political extremist Lyndon H.
Oct. 6, 1986
Politics
Vice President Dan Quayle on Sunday led a bus caravan through central Florida in search of the “Reagan Democrats” that the Republican campaign believes it needs to win this key state in November.
Aug. 24, 1992
A 396-pound sex offender was paroled Tuesday, more than three years after his brief release from prison for health problems caused widespread outrage and prompted one prosecutor to charge that he “ate his way out of jail.”
Dec. 18, 1985
Law officers Tuesday night captured a murderer and two other convicts who sawed out of a cellblock and escaped through an unguarded prison yard, tripping an alarm that guards blamed on stray cats.
Aug. 13, 1986