Madison HS grads get free tickets to Jackson memorial at Staples Center

A Manassas woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 13-year-old adopted daughter.

Oil prices plunged nearly $3 to below $64 a barrel Monday as dismal unemployment figures from the U.S. and Europe last week sparked investor doubts about any nascent economic recovery.

Truck Parking Changes to Be Implemented July 21 in All Rest Areas Statewide

Crews are assessing damage after two barges hit a trestle at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

The Washington area’s two largest school systems have just finished a bruising budget season and are already preparing for an even tougher fight over next year’s finances.

According to the 2007 U.S. Census of Agriculture released this year, more than one in every 10 U.S. farms is run by a woman. In Maryland, the number of farms in which a woman is the principal operator jumped 16 percent between 2002 and 2007. In Virginia, female-run farms also grew by 16 percent.

Cedar Mountain area resident cites financial, planning skills

Culpeper-area residents are invited to another TEA Party on Saturday, the third such gathering in as many months.

No injuries were reported as a result of a garage fire Sunday afternoon on Sperryville Pike. The fire was ignited by a parked motorcycle.

Supes to consider letter to VDOT at Tuesday meeting

Crafts created by The Windmore Foundation’s Arts in the Park program campers were on display at the Depot on Friday. 

No injuries were reported Sunday afternoon following a garage fire on Sperryville Pike that was ignited by a parked motorcycle.

A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she’s not fit to serve.

A small, single-engine plane crashed in a field on the Augusta/Rockbridge county line early Sunday, killing all aboard, state police said.

Higher toll rates have led to sparser traffic on the Dulles Greenway. But the 14-mile private toll road is generating more revenue than ever.

Roger Federer has won his record-breaking 15th Grand Slam title and sixth Wimbledon championship by beating Andy Roddick 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14.

A deadline is approaching for the possible sale of The Boston Globe.

They are the biggest of the big — the Citigroups, the Goldman Sachses, the AIGs and other financial behemoths. The Obama administration doesn’t want so many around anymore.

A third worker who had been preparing for an Independence Day celebration died from injuries suffered when a truckload of fireworks exploded on a dock at a remote North Carolina island, authorities said.

Police worked Sunday to unravel the relationship be-tween slain former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and his friend, a 20-year-old woman who was found shot to death alongside him in his downtown condominium.

NBC executives changed their minds Sunday and decided to join other networks that will televise Michael Jackson’s memorial service live this week.

Police say former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been arrested and charged with stalking a woman.

Administrator had suggested other location for Wal-Mart

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative sponsors annual event for about 1,500 young people

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds made a stop at Culpeper’s July 4 festivities Saturday.

Residents mark Independence Day with fun, fireworks, festivities

Here’s what’s on tap today in Culpeper

On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, setting the 13 American colonies on the road to freedom from British rule.

Renovation done but no word on when it will be back in business