The new school year was fast approaching and Sam Peters was still organizing his classroom. In his case, it couldn#39;t be helped.

Washington and Lee University freshman Norris Laffitte was emptying a box at William Byrd Community House when Jessica Turner spied an old carnival banner. quot;I was looking for that,quot; said Turner, the community relations coordinator for Byrd House, as she picked up the banner. Laffitte, of Columbia,…

Caroline Sheriff A.A. quot;Tonyquot; Lippa describes a shooting scene at the Chevron gas station at I-95 exit 104.

New figures add up to bad news for most of Central Virginia.

The campuses will serve Greene and downtown Charlottesville.

A man wanted in the June shooting death of a 22-year-old Petersburg resident was arrested yesterday by members of the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force. Alphelious Alphelus Jones, 21, whose last known address was in Dinwiddie County, was arrested without incident about 12:45 p.m. as he was standing…

BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military yesterday marked the end of its combat mission in Iraq amid a series of conflicting messages that underscored the mixed feelings many here, both American and Iraqi, have toward a 7amp;#189;-year effort that cost tens of thousands of lives but left the political outcome undecided.…