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Article: Church has seen it all: Fire, relocation, merger.(Local)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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These were some of the stories reported by local papers the week of Nov. 1:
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After sinking $400 million into a deep sea oil hunt, Shell Offshore Inc. and its partners abandon a drilling site off the Virginia coast and end their 15-month search for oil in the mid-Atlantic frontier.
Indian residents of Hampton Roads gather at Old Dominion University to mourn the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with an hourlong service of Hindu devotional songs and appeals for national unity.
The keel is laid for the $2.7 billion aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, the fifth in the series of Nimitz-class carriers. Some 500 shipyard ...