Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

The following students earned Bachelor of Arts in May from St. Mary's College of Maryland: Bradley Dodson, of Sykesville, earned a degree in biology and a minor in political science; Thomas Barnes, of Sykesville earned a degree in economics and a...

At 2pm Wednesday, television programs and radio shows were interrupted with a familiar message "This is a test."  But it wasn't just any test. This was the first nationwide test of the Emergency Broadcast System. In the 1960s, after the Cuban...

Virginia Republicans say they are “delighted” with election results that give the GOP an effective majority in both the House of Delegates and the State Senate. Wednesday afternoon, Democratic leaders said Republicans are mistaken if they...

A former Hagerstown resident was killed Saturday in a boating crash on Monroe Bay in northern Virginia, according to Virginia Marine Police and her family. Margaret Hartman, 53, was in a recreational boat with her husband, Lyle, when the crash occurred...

Elsie May Walker, 87, of Fredericksburg, Va., died Friday, July 1, 2011, at Woodmont Center in Fredericksburg. The family will receive friends Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. at Helsley-Johnson Funeral Home & Cremation Center in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. The...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Louisa County is reporting at least $80.6 million in damage from the Aug. 23 earthquake.  The Free Lance-Star says the total includes $63.8 million in damage to schools. Louisa County also reported an estimated $14.7 million...

Top-of-the-line Chrysler vehicles have always appealed to Ryland Tedeton. He's always alert to an appropriate model that is for sale. In June 2009, he saw an ad in an antique car publication offering for sale a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba. The Cordoba...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- President Obama is coming to the Virginia cities of Danville, Charlottesville, Newport News and Fredericksburg in the Virginia leg of this month's bus tour selling his jobs package. A senior Democrat says the four cities are part of...

Mary Beth Crisco, a retired Harford County librarian who led the computerization of her agency, died of lung cancer Wednesday at the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. She was 74 and lived in Bel Air. Born Mary Beth Harmeyer in Joppa, she was a 1955...

Seven-term Democratic state Sen. Edd Houck has conceded defeat to Republican Bryce Reeves, guaranteeing the Republicans control of not only the Senate but state government. Houck held news conference in Fredericksburg Thursday evening to announce he will...

Jennifer Frank, of Reisterstown, daughter of Timothy and Jamie Frank, and a graduate of Garrison Forest School, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Bucknell University. Stephen Wilkes, a 13-year-old eighth-grade student at...

Former U.S. Rep. Matthew G. "Marty" Martinez, an advocate for youth and the elderly who switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican after he was voted out of office in 2000, died Oct. 15 at his home in Fredericksburg, Va., his family said....