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INFORMING MORE THAN 667,700 READERS IN PRINT AND ONLINE Patriots advancato AKfliul Kith moid mmts dk Sunday, January 12, 2014 $2.00 VIRGINIA'S NEWS LEADER TIMESDISPATCH.COM FINAL TERRY McAULIFFE VIRGINIA'S 72ND GOVERNOR ri wow THE 1.r a. JAMES H. WAliACETKIES-aSROCH Gov. Terry McAuRTFe acknowledged attend i during hit Inauguration Saturday. Among many topics In hit apeoch, ha hlghllghtad workforce development and athtcs reform.

Can McAuliffe the salesman sell his agenda to the GOP? A soggy start Prayer, pomp and rain mark McAullffe's first day. Paga AD McAuliffe was sworn in with Ralph S. Northam as lieutenant governor and Mark R. Herring as attorney general authenticating a Democratic takeover of the three statewide offices from their Republican predecessors. In a 15-minute speech on the Capitol steps to a crowd thinned by the elements, McAuliffe invoked the "Virginia way," which he said puts "the common good ahead of short-term politics." He urged leaders to choose "progress over ideology." "Common ground doesn't move towards us, we move towards it," he said.

He thanked former Gov. Bob McDonnell for his leadership and a McAULIFFE, Pa A12 Seeking common ground, McAuliffe emphasizes need for 'progress over ideology BY JIM NOLAN AND OLYMPIA MEOLA Richmond Times-Dispatch With an optimism that defied the downpour that drenched much of his inaugural ceremony, Terence R. McAuliffe took the oath as Virginia's 72nd governor Saturday, pledging to seek equal opportunity for all Virginians and pursue common political ground. As former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, looked on, low salesman much like the play's protagonist, Harold Hill McAuliffe is arriving in Virginia's river city with a limited agenda that is easy to talk about and potentially difficult to implement. Not that the Democrat won't try.

It's that Republicans might not let him. In his first address as governor, McAuliffe appealed for a bipartisan approach to Virginia's challenges. Among them: BY JEFF E. SCHAMRO Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch The inaugural parade of Gov. Terry McAuliffe opened with the James Madison University marching band blaring "Seventy-Six Tram- ANALYSIS bones." It's the signa- ture tune from "The Music Man," a famous musical about a charming huckster who makes promises that seem too good to be true.

A hyper-caffeinated, hail-fel The speech Read the full text of McAullffe's address. PagiAS jj The new 5(J governor See video and photo highlights from the Inauguration of Gov. Terry McAuliffe at TlmesDIspatchcom. 48 53 Oajn. noon 54 51 3 p.m.

6 pjn. Slayings decrease 4.5 percent for 2013 Weather B3 IKhmond-area homicides and 16 counties was a little shorter last year, collectively declining 45 percent from the 88 killings in 2012. The smaller numbers sustained a dramatic, largely downward trend in regional killings over the past decade. The homicide count has remained under 100 for six years straight and fallen seven of the past nine years from 2004 to 2013, based on regional SLAYINGS, Page A6 the Richmond region in 2013 include dozens of other heartbreaking cases: a newborn left for dead in a dump-ster, a teen accosted and shot while walking to the store for candy, and a mother and her adult daughter attacked by a mentally disturbed man who smashed his way into their home, shooting both in the head. But the tragic list of victims in central Virginia four cities, one town BY MARK BOWES Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch The victims include a veteran state trooper shot after stopping to assist a motorist-turned-gunman, a 7-year-old boy killed by celebratory gunfire on July 4 and a Pakistani native gunned down in his family-owned store.

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