The ongoing review of Albemarl...

Threats by land and water in 1862 will be commemorated with 60 days of events 150 years later

The Gainesville location will be one of four Northern Virginia stores to have a Target Clinic by late July.

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STAFFORD SCHOOLS Head Start...

Rachel Rose Lynch is talking about the many parts she's played as a 10-year-old actress, including the time she pretended to have a seizure. She was doing an instructional video for the American Red Cross. She watched about five minutes of YouTube videos--of people in real distress--to better understand what happens. Then, as her mother, Pat, described, Rachel "nailed it" on camera....

RICHMOND--President Barack Obama rallied about 8,000 supporters in Richmond Saturday in one of two events his campaign billed as a ramping-up of the general election campaign. Richmond was one of two rallies to formally kick off Obama's re-election campaign, although Republicans note he's been holding campaign events for months....

Gov. Bob McDonnell has filed $44 million in budget amendments to the two-year budget state lawmakers passed late last month. Under an agreement between McDonnell and lawmakers, he had only seven working days--rather than 30--to propose his amendments, something both sides agreed to so as to speed up the process. The budget was already more than a month behind schedule when legislators finally voted to pass it, and local governments are writing their own budgets now....

Earlier this year, online sales giant Amazon agreed to start collecting sales tax from Virginia customers in September 2013. Now a group of Virginia business organizations that advocated for that deal is taking its message to the federal level....

BY SCOTT SHENK Expect some slow nighttime driving on sections of Interstate 95 beginning this week....

When she met with the staff at her doctor's office last month, Virginia Stitcher told them that she was worried about Rosey, her dog. Stitcher had been receiving cancer-related treatments at Virginia Interventional & Vascular Associates in Massaponax for two years. But she had become much sicker in recent months and feared for her dog....

FROM STAFF REPORTS The Rappahannock Regional Criminal Justice Academy and Lodge 15 of the Fraternal Order of Police will hold its 21st annual memorial service on Tuesday, May 15, for 30 law enforcement officers from the local region who have lost their lives in the line of duty....

PRIVATE SCHOOLS Odyssey Montessori...

The Heritage Shrine Club is sponsoring a free screening clinic to evaluate children with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lips and palates. The clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, at the Orthopedic Specialty Clinic, 2800 Wellford St., No. 100, in Fredericksburg....