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.

A Ferrum College spokeswoman says three students were collecting frogs for a biology class at about 4 p.m. Tuesday when two were shot along a trail about a mile west of campus

Planning Commission members hope that by allowing small power-generating wind turbines, the county will encourage renewable energy use

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.

State wildlife officials believe the creature is a manatee

Researchers announced Monday that several major clinical trials showed promising results of an experimental libido-boosting drug called flibanserin

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.