Albemarle County

Work on Afton Mountain above Interstate 64 in Culpeper has been suspended Thursday. The work will resume Monday through Thursday (May 13-16). ============================== Original story from Wednesday, May 8 Work on Afton Mountain has been...

A vigil in Albemarle County will honor Virginia transportation employees killed in roadway work zones. The Virginia Department of Transportation says the vigil is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the VDOT Workers' Memorial on eastbound Interstate 64 on...

Morgan Harrington’s family has amended its lawsuit against a company that provided security at a Charlottesville concert where she disappeared in October 2009. Harrington, who was from Roanoke County and attended Virginia Tech, was found dead in...

The Central Virginia Electric Cooperative is reporting that 6,700 of its members are without power Wednesday morning. Five CVEC substations have more than 500 outages. They include: - the Red Hill (511 Outages) Whitehall (1346 outages) and Midway...

Editor’s note: This the first of a two-part series about Jacqueline Amber Lewis, who was among the first settlers in the Forkland community in Western Boyle County. Jaqueline Amber Lewis, a pioneer who came west from Virginia in early 1800, owned...

The lead investigator in the 2009 abduction and murder of Morgan Harrington has written an open letter to Harrington’s killer. Virginia State Police lieutenant Joe Rader retired earlier this year. According to a news release Rader is a self-...

Editor’s note: “The Great Meadow,” 1930, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, is the first in a series of book reviews about works of Kentucky fiction. If you are descended from “early settlers,” your ancestors almost certainly...

UPDATED Sunday 2:45pm Virginia State Police say they've received more tips in the unsolved murder case of Morgan Harrington. "America's Most Wanted" aired a feature on the case Friday night. While there's no exact number, State Police tell our...

A television show's segment on the slaying of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington is generating tips for investigators. WRIC-TV says Virginia State Police received six new tips after "America's Most Wanted" aired the segment on the investigation...

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...

Ninety-three percent of Virginia's public schools are fully accredited, according to numbers released Wednesday afternoon by the Virginia Department of Education. According to the VDOE, 96 percent of elementary schools and 88 percent of middle schools...

The Obama campaign announced Saturday that the President will speak at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in Charlottesville on Wednesday. The exact time for his speech has not been announced, but gates open to the public at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Free...