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

Committee prepares for Johnson’s six-month evaluation in January

Death Row inmate Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to be executed tonight at 9 for the 2001 murder of Dana Thrall in Prince William County.

An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.

The state of Virginia, which already has had to cut $6 billion from the two-year budget ending June 30, 2010, may have to cut $250 million to $300 million, the House Appropriations Committee was told today.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told Virginia Board of Education members this morning that if he could run for governor again that he “definitely” would have and continue his efforts to improve education for the state’s 1 million-plus students.

The father of a 5-year-old girl whose body was found off a rural North Carolina road regrets giving the girl’s mother a chance to raise their daughter, even though she seemed to be getting her life together.

An economic impact study says a proposed wind farm on East River Mountain would give Tazewell County $9.2 million in tax revenues over 20 years.

The Northrop Grumman shipyard in Newport News is working to modernize the Navy’s submarine fleet.

Staunton authorities find child and woman living in squalor

Jackson faces four charges related to March incident

Virginia House of Delegates members have chosen leaders for the 2010 General Assembly session.

Benefit concert for State Theatre attracts hundreds

December’s featured cinema in the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater will begin with a quirky comedy set in the Big Apple about a sticky love affair, a la Woody Allen — 30 years ago.
“Manhattan,” showing Dec. 3, is rated R.

Culpeper’s congressman to host job fair Nov. 23 at Daniel Technology Center

Volunteer social, business meeting will be held at Culpeper Library in the Southgate Shopping Center

The Week in Pictures, Nov. 9-16

Portion of Culpeper schools receive H1N1 vaccines

FoWB hear updates on Walmart issue during annual meeting

Obtaining a higher education these days is going to cost Germanna Community College students more money when they return to class next spring.