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.

Graduate students now make up 22.5 percent of the university’s total student population

Clayton Finch and his wife, Louise, say the mother of their grandchildren, Rebecca Gragg, is responsible for murder

Patriotic display destroyed in rural Madison County the night before Halloween

Thirteen soldiers were taken to Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg on Wednesday after an accidental blast at Fort Pickett

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.

Powhatan County Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert B. Beasley Jr. decided last week not to follow through because he believed the cruelty charges would not stand up in court

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the Virginia Organizing Project said Virginia families earning less than $19,000 a year pay 8.9 percent of their income in state and local taxes, while the richest taxpayers—those making more than $1.5 million a year—pay only 6.3 percent

However, the reduction announced Wednesday amounts to a slight improvement over the state’s August revenue estimates

The highly anticipated second film in “The Twilight Saga,“ hits theaters Friday

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

Obama, winding up his weeklong Asian journey, is expected to emphasize the two nations’ unified efforts to prod a defiant North Korea out of its nuclear weapons program

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.