Girls on the run: Buckland Mills prepares for 5K

BY JEFF BRANSCOME Lake Anna is one step closer to having 10 new lakefront homes, despite opposition from nearby homeowners....

When it comes to state sales taxation, the rules are mostly pretty simple. You own a store that sells stuff, then you collect and send to the state the sales tax on the things you sell. Done. But in a sales economy that's moving beyond bricks-and-mortar stores, and beyond state lines, the rules are getting blurrier. States are worrying about how to tax online sales, and now two states have sued a book retailer whose products are often offered by teachers....

Odyssey Montessori Elementary Students completed a six-week music course on drumming with Ken Crampton of "Everybody Drum." The following students studied rhythm, timing and playing together as a group, and worked on material to be showcased at the school talent show: Jonah Bevan, Zane Darden, Dane DiEugenio, Katie Ibarra, Bonnie Little, Alex Murphy, Esha Pai, Bella Thomas, Madchen Watt and Ella Williams....

The 65th annual 4-H/FFA Fredericksburg Area Junior Livestock Show and Sale was held on May 9 at the Fredericksburg Livestock Exchange. The event attracted 78 4-H'ers from nine counties: Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King George, Lancaster, Northumberland, Spotsylvania, Stafford and Westmoreland....

Today's Marine Corps Historic Half marathon will be the first time Jesse and Jenny Love run together as a couple. Unlike other teams in the race, she'll be running the course in Fredericksburg and he'll be completing the 13.1 miles across the Afghan desert. Jesse, a civilian crew chief of the Delaram fire department at the Forward Operating Base Delaram II in Afghanistan said, "For me it's exciting, very exciting. I'm typically only home 30 days a year, so for us to be able to do something together on opposite ends of the earth is something very special. Almost feels as if we are actually running together."...

FREDERICKSBURG The Economic Development Authority meets at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday for a workshop in the second-floor conference room of City Hall, 715 Princess Anne St....

TRAVEL ALERT Interstate 95...

BY BILL FREEHLING The 330-acre former and perhaps future home of the State Fair of Virginia in Caroline County will be sold to the highest bidder Tuesday....

BY JONAS BEALS A group of Colonial Beach residents is working to oust the town manager....