A 16-year-old Luray Zoo employee is recovering after being bitten by a tiger.

Fairfax County police say the car of a missing Herndon woman has been found with a woman’s body inside.

Rep. Eric I. Cantor became the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House today, winning an uncontested election as party whip.

Police have charged a Woodbridge man with felony murder and arson in the death of his wife in a Monday house fire.

Area fire officials formed an investigative team to study the circumstances surrounding the line-of-duty death of emergency medical technician Cecilia Turnbough of the Dale City Volunteer Fire Department.

The jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $86 million Wednesday.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has some advice for motorists traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday — leave early.

A video released by an animal rights group on Tuesday claims to show horrific abuse of turkeys at West Virginia farms operated by major global poultry grower Aviagen Inc.

Promises that, perhaps, cannot be kept.

Tax bills for Prince William homeowners will decrease between 6.6 percent and 18 percent in fiscal 2010, according to budget guidance discussions Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors meeting.

While it may be impossible to find a motel room in Prince William County during inauguration week, those who don’t mind roughing it a little can still find a place to stay.

Call it the “Yes, we can” strategy. As in, yes, we can ... make a buck off the inauguration.

One might think 3- to 5-year-olds are too young to begin playing competitive tennis. But St. Paul's School in Haymarket just may have future tennis champions on its Quickstart team.

Seton High School in Manassas will host the sixth annual Boyle School of Irish Dance Jig-a-thon on Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.

Area children will get a head start on their Thanksgiving day celebrations as all Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park schools will dismiss early on Wednesday, Nov. 26.

The Alpha Iota Zeta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa recently conducted its fall induction at the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College.

Police identified Graciela Letizia Marandino, 31, of 15281 Valley Stream Way in the Rippon Landing area of Woodbridge, as the victim of an early morning fire which also injured her husband Monday. Police continued their investigation Tuesday.

A man lost everything except his dog when his home at the corner of Norfolk Street and Damascus Drive near Manassas went up in flames Tuesday morning.

Nestlé Prepared Foods Company announced today a Class I Recall on a three varieties of Lean Cuisine entrees which may contain small pieces of blue plastic.

The officials warned Tuesday that 31 of the nation’s largest transit systems could face at least $2 billion in payments in the coming months if hundreds of the deals go bad.

Tens of thousands of Virginians are asking congressional offices for tickets to President-elect Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. But Monday, many of the nation’s 100 senators officially learned they each will get 393 tickets to distribute.

The JTF National Capital Region military hockey team is taking on the D.C. police hockey team Sunday, Nov. 23 at 7:20 p.m. at the Prince William Ice Center in Woodbridge.

All it takes is a winning essay or a hand-drawn picture to earn one of 25 spots for the Youth Outdoor Scholarship Program at the Bull Run Mountains Conservancy.

Prince William police charged four people in a string of unrelated Woodbridge area burglaries yesterday.<

A Woodbridge man pleaded no contest Monday to involuntary manslaughter in a racing-related crash last year on Interstate 95.<

A truck driver was taken to Prince William Hospital on Monday after his tractor-trailer flipped in Gainesville.

A wrong-way driver on I-66 Monday morning caused a traffic crash that resulted in two women being killed and three people being injured.

An expansion is under way that will make Fort Belvoir one of the largest Army bases in the nation.

Burlington, Vt., appears to be the healthiest city in America, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Manassas police have arrested a man in connection with a Friday robbery at the Provident Bank at 10175 Hastings Drive, police said.