07/04/11 YORK -- On July 4 at 8p.m. the United States Air Force Heritage of America Concert Band will perform at the Yorktown Victory Monument.
07/04/11 Ansel Adams captured Yosemite Valley in stunning black-and-white photography.
07/03/11 A civic center has been the dream of many folks in Central Virginia for decades, a place for sporting events, concerts, traveling Broadway shows, big-name national acts and high-dollar conferences.
07/03/11 Virginia Jefferson's awnings offered shade to customers around Baltimore Virginia Jefferson spent the past 65 years putting her customers in the dark. As the proprietor of an old Baltimore awning company, it was her role to spread the shade on the hottest of summer afternoons.
07/03/11 Members of the Comstock Civil War Re-enactors fire on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad No. 25 steam locomotive and passenger train with their Whitworth cannon.
07/02/11 Friday-Monday at Mills Park, opening at noon each day. Major carnival rides, games and concessions, arts, crafts, novelties and an assortment of food vendors. Fireworks show over Mills Park is 9:15 p.m. July 4. Proceeds from the fair benefit Retired Senior Volunteer Program. 687-4680, ext.4.
07/02/11 Orbiter and the Ferris wheel are seen at the RSVP carnival on Friday night. The July Fourth weekend will be a scorcher with the highs in the mid to upper 90s throughout the Monday holiday, according to the National Weather Service.
06/26/11 Faith Prince always knew she wanted to perform. Everybody around her knew it, too, including the children she babysat back in Lynchburg, Va. "I was a kind of a pied piper," the Broadway trouper and Tony Award winner (...
06/25/11 The West topped the East 8-7 in the 2011 Rockingham County Baseball League All-Star Game at Ray Heatwole Field Saturday night.
06/24/11 A Room With a View, a new musical based on E.M. Forster's 1908 novel about stuffy Brits soaking in romance in Italy, will make its world premiere as part of The Old Globe's 2011-12 season in San Diego.
06/23/11 Broadway favorite Jeff McCarthy, who will be seen in the Barksdale Theatre's upcoming production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will offer his new concert act July 8 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' Leslie Cheek Theater in Richmond, VA.
06/23/11 PARKERSBURG - The Wood County area has just over 22 miles in road projects in various stages of development throughout the area. The West Virginia Department of Transportation released a list Thursday of 18 road projects, totaling $64.
06/23/11 A recap of the 'America's Got Talent' New York auditions, in which Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. steals the show.
06/14/11 A motorist who allegedly led Hancock and Putnam county deputies on a high-speed chase from Findlay to Ottawa and back was indicted Tuesday by a Hancock County grand jury.
06/14/11 The Smoking Gun has posted the Foo Fighters ' new tour rider, which includes a section in the form of a children's activity book. The rider includes coloring book pages, drawings of all the Foos, a word hunt for "catering don'ts," a maze to get guitarist Chris Shiflett to the catering area and more.
06/14/11 Photo by Lisa Corson -- Brooklyn psych alchemists Oneida just completed their Thank Your Parents album trilogy with this year's dark, noisy Absolute II . To celebrate, they're throwing a three-day mini-festival June 17-19 at Brooklyn's Secret Project Robot . The band will perform the entire trilogy (culminating in a performance of Absolute II at dawn on the last day), along with a ten-hour ...
06/13/11 United States Congressman Dr. Michael C. Burgess of the 26th District of Texas was the keynote speaker at the Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH) State Convention banquet.
06/07/11 A volunteer receptionist answers a phone call at President Obama's re-election headquarters in Chicago. (PHOTO CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES) FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: The continuing struggles of the U.S. economy are becoming a big problem for President Obama and his campaign for re-election in 2012. Economic reports show an unwelcome slowdown in what had been a [...]
06/02/11 NEW SUMMER DATES IN SUPPORT OF FROM AFRICA WITH FURY: RISE Seun Kuti is excited to announce a North American tour in support of his new album, From Africa With Fury: Rise. On the tour, he'll be heading up Egypt 80, the extraordinary combo first fronted by his renowned father. The tour begins in Los Angeles, CA at Grand Performances on July 15 and wraps up on July 30 at Floydfest in Floyd, VA...
03/10/11 Median housing prices in the Fredericksburg region fell to their lowest point in almost nine years i...
 12/08/09 No injuries reported in early afternoon incident at NOVA-Woodridge campus as police investigation co...
08/03/09 By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Wrap-up of thoroughbred stakes action. |