A Manassas man died of injuries he suffered in a single-car crash in Fairfax County yesterday, Virginia State Police said.

“Virginia is for Lovers” has hit middle age but it’s still going strong.

Zoo co-owner Jennifer Westhoff says the female employee was showing the animal to a group of visitors Sunday when the 5-year-old Bengal tiger named Star bit her through its cage as she tried to pet it.

Fairfax County police say the car of a missing Herndon woman has been found with a woman’s body inside

Dave Foster of Arlington, a litigator with a national law firm and a former member of the Arlington County School Board, announced his candidacy

An increasing number of animals have been abandoned or given up for adoption by people who’ve lost jobs or homes, according to animal-rescue groups.

New York-based Sabra makes a range of refrigerated dips and spreads

The Sons of Confederate Veterans are talking to two other sites about the life-size bronze statue after talks with the American Civil War Center at Tredegar Iron Works broke down

Cantor is the first Virginian to hold the post in either party

Options on the table, include slashing payments to health-care providers; and enlarging class sizes and reducing payments to local school boards.

To help ease Thanksgiving holiday travel, the Virginia Department of Transportation will open lanes that have been temporarily closed for construction or maintenance work on major roadways.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has some advice for motorists traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday - leave early.

Already facing a $2.5 billion revenue shortfall, House Appropriations Committee members meeting in Roanoke learned Tuesday on the first of two days of briefings that the beleaguered housing market is hardly the state’s only problem.

Each state will be eligible for as much as $10 million in relief to help watermen hurt by the failure of the Chesapeake Bay’s soft shell and peeler blue crab fishery, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service said.

Patricia Woodfolk was supposed to work for only 90 days.  By the time she retired, Woodfolk had seen five U.S. presidents fill the Oval Office during her time at the Office of Administration.

The train will begin its route in Pikeville, Ky., about 200 miles east of Louisville, and make 14 stops as it moves through southwest Virginia en route to Kingsport, TN

The late Jane Iris Crutchfield left $1.1 million to the university’s School of Information and Library Science. It’s the largest gift the school has ever received.

The video is filled with interviews with gang members, parents, and members of law enforcement.  It also features stunning images of gang violence filmed or photographed in Virginia.

Officers found more than 50 dogs in a small confined area

The jury heard opening statements on Monday in the case of James Boughton Jr. who is charged with first-degree murder, malicious wounding, attempted malicious wounding and three firearms violations

A Norfolk doctor received a suspended sentence and 10 years of probation after admitting that he traded prescription drugs for sex with a female patient.

The conference will explore links between water and energy, and the impacts that coal mining and gas drilling can have on water resources.

Virginia’s Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today urged the Navy to maintain Hampton Roads as the East Coast base for a nuclear carrier that the Navy wants to move to Florida.

The new plaintiff is the U.S. Department of Justice

Police say a teenager traveling the wrong way on Interstate 66 crashed head-on into another car, killing two women

A Mathews Circuit Court judge today dismissed a motion to vacate a second degree murder conviction of Behjamin Fawley for the 2005 slaying of Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl.

Now that the dust is settling on this year’s election, candidates running in next year’s Virginia governor’s race are prepping for an intense statewide race.

In a letter sent out Thursday evening, UVa President John T. Casteen III wrote that while UVa’s endowment investments were hit to the tune of close to $900 million in the first quarter of this fiscal year, the investments will rebound in the long run.

Warner’s choice is Luke Albee, a political consulant who previously spent 11 years as chief of staff to Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont

Facing a haggard economy, rural governments across the state are reaching deep into their bag of tricks to find ways—sometimes novel ones—to save dollars