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as to my views. I noted that I wouldn't oppose deleting it if no more information came up, but given that there are still stories coming out about it at Google News, as noted by Cnilep, it would seem that interest has not gone away, and it would be premature at best to delete the page. And there are
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despite the NYT story cited a little above. Relatively trivial news, none the less. !If someone had been killed, I would have voted otherwise. There may be some political implications, but I do not yet see them discussed. My suggestion from this and similar discussions, which have been yielding
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referring to "Wytheville hostage" over a span of three days. This constitutes significant coverage in mainstream media sources assumed to be reliable per
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Just another run of the mill hostage incident. No one died, and nothing Earth changing came as a result of this.
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