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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - State-run liquor stores in five Virginia cities can begin selling alcoholic beverages on Sunday next month.
A law adopted this year by the General Assembly expanded Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages to state-run stores in Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Richmond and Chesapeake.
The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said Friday that 36 stores in those cities will begin Sunday sales from 1-6 p.m. on July 6.
Alcoholic Beverage Control stores in Norfolk, Virginia Beach and eight northern Virginia localities have been authorized to open from 1-6 p.m. on Sundays since 2004. The agency says Sunday sales from those 95 stores totaled $9.7 million in fiscal year 2007.
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