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Train Track Death, Missing Person, Confederate Mandates, Abduction Escape, and Bao Bao's First Selfie
Plus, animal control agents on alert for 'lost' birds a long way from home.
A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a train near the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) Burke Centre Station on Wednesday. A train was traveling southbound from Washington, D.C., to Manassas when the accident occurred.
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