Fauquier County

The prospects appear doomed in Virginia this year for Republican-backed legislation that would replace the state's winner-take-all method of apportioning presidential electoral votes with one that awards one vote to the winner of each congressional...

Congressman Robert Hurt has been voted into a second term in the 5th Congressional District.  It didn't take voters long for voters to decide they wanted Congressman Hurt in office. Hurt made his acceptance speech feel more like a fireside chat than a...

Virginia State Police say they are investigating a fatal shooting by a deputy sheriff in Fauquier County. Authorities say the incident occurred early Friday after deputies from both Fauquier and Stafford counties responded to a report of a crashed and...

Virginia education officials say 68 percent of the state's public schools met new annual benchmarks in reading, mathematics and graduation. The state Department of Education on Wednesday released results of the objectives aimed at reducing proficiency...

"It's kind of funny he keeps calling me mister. It's General Douglass. Okay folks?" said 5th district democratic candidate General John Douglass during a hot debate in Danville Wednesday night. In the first public meeting between Douglass and current...

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has sued White House party crasher Tareq Salahi, claiming Salahi cheated customers who purchased wine tours in northern Virginia. The lawsuit filed Monday in Fauquier County Circuit Court accuses Salahi and his Virginia...

     The City of Salem is receiving a grant from the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation to acquire nine acres to complete the Roanoke River Greenway project between Rotary Park and the city line.  Another grant was awarded to the city for the trail...

Millions of dollars are headed to local school systems to help with new construction, renovations and expansion projects.  The Virginia Department of Education announced Wednesday the allocation of $229,551,000 in Qualified School Construction Bonds. ...

WARRENTON, Va. (AP) — The brother of a West Virginia prisoner accused in a decades-old slaying in Virginia's horse country says he was with his brother during the New Year's Eve slaying. Ernest Cloud testified Tuesday at a court hearing for his 64-...

The midair collision of two small planes about 50 miles from Washington is under investigation by Canadian officials because one plane was owned by an FAA employee and the other by an NTSBemployee, federal officials said Tuesday. On Monday afternoon, a...

Mary Elizabeth "Becky" Lipp, a homemaker who studied genealogy, died of pneumonia March 24 at the Charlestown Retirement Community. She was 101 and had lived in Govans. She was born Mary Elizabeth Barrett while her mother was traveling on a railroad...

Karen Thatcher knew when she saw it that a photograph of a tintype of a young Confederate soldier was of David Miller Thatcher, her husband Larry Thatcher’s great-great uncle, who died in the Civil War in 1863. “It was the hands,” she...