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VA, DC Good News: Top Restaurants, New Year's Eve, Animal Rescues

Good news on DC, NoVA Patches includes top restaurants in the region, New Year's Eve events, $100K lottery winner and $3.1M for charity.

VIRGINIA — Lots of good things happened in the past week and Patch compiled them, including fan guides for the Orange and Belk Bowls, four DC restaurants make OpenTable's Top 100 list, a dog makes it back home after six months, a man raises $3.1 million for a Washington Redskins charity, and New Year's Eve events around northern Virginia. Other good news headlines include restaurants on the most-anticipated list of the Daily Meal, Megan Markle's favorite shoe store is open in Georgetown, a $100,000 lottery winner, animal rescue stores from the last year that will touch your heart, and more stories from Virginia and DC Patch sites this week.

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