NewsFeeds 11.06.09

Dominion Virginia Power agrees to lower rates, give refunds (Virginian-Pilot)
Dominion Virginia Power has agreed to drop a group of requested rate increases and refund customers more than $129 million under an arrangement with the Virginia attorney general’s office.

Suspected Fort Hood shooter had Roanoke roots (Roanoke Times)
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of shooting 12 people to death and wounding 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, was the son of Roanoke merchants and restaurateurs, lived in Vinton and graduated from Virginia Tech.

Borders to close 200 Waldenbooks stores, cut jobs (USA Today)
Borders Group, the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain, said Thursday it would shutter more of its small-format Waldenbooks stores in January as it focuses on its more profitable superstores.

Walmart, Target slash online prices of popular DVDs (LA Times)
The retailers will charge $10 for top-selling new releases. The moves come as Redbox, which operates $1-a-night DVD rental kiosks, reported soaring revenue and profit.

Freebies for the jobless (Fortune)
From free dry cleaning to a no-cost vacation, these 5 businesses have come up with creative ways to help out unemployed residents in their communities.

The Real Ayn Rand (Inc.)
A groundbreaking new biography paints a surprising — and surprisingly lurid — picture of the writer and thinker.

The Weekly Wind-Down: The Hyper Hypo (NBC via Hulu)
This four-minute clip from the early 90s with Mike Myers and guest Nicole Kidman is a reminder that NBC’s Saturday Night Live used to be very funny.