When Cindy Naugle took the witness stand in her lawsuit against tobacco company Philip Morris USA, she toted an oxygen bottle and had to pause a few minutes to catch her breath.

A 71-year-old woman has died after being run over by her own car in the driveway of her home.

The University of Mary Washington is weighing a rare midyear tuition increase to help offset drastic state funding cuts.

Fresh from his weeklong trip through Asia, President Barack Obama is taking time to catch up on dad duty.

One person was killed when a Miley Cyrus tour bus overturned on southbound Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County.

Patriotic display destroyed in rural Madison County the night before Halloween

A 49-year-old man wounded in a robbery and shooting at a Culpeper convenience store earlier this month remains hospitalized in Charlottesville.

Carelessly handled woodstove ashes started a fire Thursday night that gutted the garage of a home in the 20200 block of Old Mill Road, authorities say.

A longtime Red Cross worker from Culpeper has been deployed to Iraq in support of the troops.

Agenda includes division goals, discipline, calendar, capital priorities

More families only using cell phones, census shows

Tonight’s Powderpuff game at Culpeper County High School has been rescheduled to Friday

The Washington Times is denying a religious discrimination claim by the paper’s former opinion editor.

AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an adver-tising-driven economy, is looking to shed more than a third of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month.

The U.S. Coast Guard says aircraft crews are searching for a Canadian boater who is overdue for arrival in Bermuda.

Virginia High School League recognizes Colonnade

The recent appearance of garland and Christmas wreaths all around Main and Davis streets signals the official arrival of the holiday shopping season in downtown Culpeper.

Morgan D. Harrington’s parents went Wednesday to the Copeley Road bridge where she was last seen to leave mementos and posters at a small, makeshift memorial.

But number of residents below threshold about the same as 1998

J.C. Penney will stop publishing its twice-yearly “big book” catalogs, now that customers increasingly shop online.

First Lady Michelle Obama received a few gardening tips from some children as she toured a northern Virginia elementary school’s vegetable garden.

Virginia health officials are advising against consuming walleye fish caught in Lake Gaston because of mercury contamination.

Local artisans are helping to prolong the existence of a tulip poplar tree that once stood beside Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.

A man in a tasseled hat robbed the Wachovia Bank at 10th Street Northeast and East High Street in Charlottesville on Tuesday.

South Carolina’s State Ethics Commission is set to decide whether a three-month investigation provides enough evidence that Gov. Mark Sanford broke state laws.

Death-row inmate Larry Bill Elliott was executed last night for the 2001 murder of Dana Thrall of Prince William County.

The bad economy will result in another $250 million to $300 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30, House of Delegates money committees were told yesterday.

Job losses, foreclosures expected to continue into 2010

Consent forms needed in order for students to receive shots

Jackson sentenced to nearly three years in prison