Coming this weekend

New stops added in response to demand along busy business corridor, active senior site

Tonight in Culpeper you can watch kids playing pirates, hear bluegrass on the courthouse lawn, or squeal as a half dozen men with sculpted abs dance in their unmentionables to your favorite theatre production tunes.

Gourdine escaped custody, then fled

Area congressman sees opportunity for Virginia’s coast

The Culpeper Volunteer Fire Department was called to a fire at Culpeper Wrecker and Salvage on Old Fredericksburg Road at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday. 

Review Board likes changes to State Theatre

Water and sewer authority to be formed; town will grow

Four-day event features food, entertainment and all things down on the farm

Graffiti House hosting 2008 lecture series

Crews demolished a two-story brick house behind Precious Blood Catholic Church Wednesday to make way for a dozen new parking spots. 

Thomas Lewis of Sperryville is the first weekly winner in the Star-Exponent’s Big Ol’ Tomato 2008 contest. 

But will tonight’s discussion between the town and county be open or closed?

House at corner of East Piedmont and North East streets demolished Wednesday afternoon

So after more than 20 years, the Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services wants a snappier autograph, and it’s seeking public input on four choices.

The passenger line - listed in the plan as a potential rail investment location - would add up to two roundtrip trains per day from Lynchburg to Washington, D.C., with stops in Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas and Alexandria.

Openly frustrated at the heavy news coverage of Barack Obama’s trip to the Middle East, the John McCain campaign is responding with a public relations offensive, including a new web video that accuses television news reporters of being “in the tank” for Obama.

An Eastern View High School math teacher and varsity cheerleading coach pleaded guilty in Culpeper County General District Court last week to driving under the influence of alcohol. 

$10 million renovation plan coming before Architectural Review Board

Police say former employee pilfered contents of wallet, faces felony rap

More than a half-century later, as the state readies to commemorate the struggle of black students in Prince Edward with the dedication today on Capitol Square of the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, Wilson and more than a dozen others wrestled with the aftermath of school segregation in a discussion at the Library of Virginia. 

Some of the deepest secrets about Seung-Hui Cho’s killing rampage at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, may never be made public. Disclosure of the essential facts of the tragedy in a public archive was a key part of a settlement last month with victims’ families, reached after the university released thousands of pages of internal documents to their lawyers.

The Eastern View educator teaches math and coaches cheerleading

Stafford men arrested after incident described by police as ‘total chaos’

Contractor: Like Emerald Hill, the county’s newest elementary school won’t open on time

A judge postponed a plea hearing scheduled for yesterday for the former Catholic priest accused of stealing from two Louisa County churches. 

Culpeper police charged a Madison County woman with illegally obtaining household items of a Culpeper woman by posing as a Red Cross worker, according to a town police report. 

It’s been 11 years since Culpeper Town Council got a raise. But on Saturday afternoon, following a nearly five-hour closed-session meeting covering water and sewer issues and interviews for new town manager, the town’s governing body made up for lost time.

An argument over the TV remote led Culpeper police to charge a couple with domestic assault Friday morning, the second time this month the couple has faced assault charges.

Culpeper County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old Culpeper boy Sunday morning on charges of breaking and entering, then threatening the homeowner with a knife.