About 1,100 fish died mysteriously in the pond several days earlier.

Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner was born in New Haven, Conn., and listed Fairfax as his official home.

Include your name, phone number, the locality in which you live and a brief description of what you saw.

Transmitter problems have put the public radio station WCVE (88.9 FM) off the air for many listeners.

Police said three people were in the house, but no injuries were reported.

Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner was born in New Haven, Conn., and listed Fairfax as his official home. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1984.

Your fingers might do more tripping than walking in the new CenturyLink phone book.

A small electrical fire in a downtown building temporarily displaced upstairs apartment-dwellers, but the restaurant downstairs was still open for dinner Friday night.

Although Alpha Natural Resources plans to lay off 320 people in Kentucky and West Virginia, the company’s operations in Virginia may actually gain workers, a company spokesman said Friday night.

An excerpt from The Virginian of Feb. 4, 1862

A driver said another man “flipped him the bird” at McDonald’s.

Healing Hands Health Center is again conducting a Valentine’s Day fundraiser that generated a surprising return last year.

HRH has changed its exterior lighting in honor of American Heart Month, Feb. 1-29, and National Wear Red Day, Feb. 3

Virginia State Parks recently introduced the new VSP Pocket Ranger® app for smartphones, a free mobile tour guide developed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, ParksByNature, Virginia Association for Parks and Imperial Multimedia. Virginia is the latest of 12 states to partner with ParksByNature in developing official state park mobile tour guides. In other states there is a basic guide and one with advanced GPS technology available at an additional charge. Thanks to the VAFP and Imperial Multimedia, there is no charge for the advanced Virginia app. The partnership is also finalizing details on a sponsorship plan so that users are supporting Virginia State Parks each time they use the app. The mobile guide is available for Apple and some Android devices.