Virginia News Headlines: Saturday Morning

Here are a few Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 14.

*Obama Rallies the Grassroots in Roanoke (Great job by Elaine in Roanoke covering the Obama rally there. Also see the Roanoke Times)

*People pack the block to see Obama speak

*Ken Cuccinelli criticizes Tim Kaine's handling of Soering case (See here for Kindler's critique of Ayatollah General Kookinelli.)

*Frank Wolf, Jim Webb split over creating special envoy post

*At Va. Beach rally, Obama attacks GOP on taxes

*Presidential politics dominate start of governors' conference

*Obama says he's fighting for the middle class in Hampton campaign stop

*McDonnell: Obama should take down Bain ads (Translation: the truth hurts, and it's giving me a sad. Waaaaaaaaaaaaah.)

*Virginia ends fiscal year with state budget surplus

*Giuliani: Romney's only job at Bain was to make money (And the job of U.S. president is...certainly NOT just "to make money")

*Supervisor opposes EPA lawsuit (I love how the Post article alternately spells his name correctly as "Foust" and incorrectly as "Faust." This paper's so sloppy - tons of typos, grammatical errors, not to mention all their journalistic shortcomings. Sad.)

*Officers investigated after Obama visit have left RPD

*McDonnell appoints lobbyist to co-lead schools summit

*McDonnell appoints two more to airports board ("...even though the current board said it won't allow new members to be seated for now.")

*Zimmermann, Nats dominate ("The Nationals storm into the second half with a dismantling of Miami as Jordan Zimmermann allows four hits over six scoreless innings.")