The passenger line - listed in the plan as a potential rail investment location - would add up to two roundtrip trains per day from Lynchburg to Washington, D.C., with stops in Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas and Alexandria.

Openly frustrated at the heavy news coverage of Barack Obama’s trip to the Middle East, the John McCain campaign is responding with a public relations offensive, including a new web video that accuses television news reporters of being “in the tank” for Obama. 

Obama opens up offices in Woodbridge

A 19-year-old Manassas man charged in a May murder-for-hire plot waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Prince William General District Court on Tuesday.

A Northern Virginia man thought to have drowned Tuesday was found an hour later walking on nearby train tracks. He was charged with public intoxication.

Maurine Finnegan, who is less than two months away from her 101st birthday, was sitting in her wheelchair near the window in her bedroom at the Westminster at Lake Ridge health center when Carol Kalbfleisch came through the door with an arrangement of carnations and two red roses.

With an 8-0 voice, Prince William supervisors Tuesday gave the go-ahead for a new zoning ordinance aimed at ridding the county of graffiti.

Electing and keeping a treasurer has been a tough task at Manassas Park lately.

Since upgrades were made to Prince William County’s 911 call system, the primary server that relays the calls has experienced interruptions on four occasions. The first led to a seven-minute delay in dispatching firefighters to a house fire in Dale City, officials said Tuesday.

Are ghosts replaying the past at Virginia battlefields, including Manassas National Battlefield Park?<

Officials celebrated what they see as the beginning of high-occupancy/toll, or HOT, lanes — two in each direction on the Virginia portion of the DC beltway — Tuesday.

Police say acquaintance placed camera in 17-year-old girl’s bathroom.

More than a half-century later, as the state readies to commemorate the struggle of black students in Prince Edward with the dedication today on Capitol Square of the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, Wilson and more than a dozen others wrestled with the aftermath of school segregation in a discussion at the Library of Virginia. 

Vpstart Crow Productions Inc’s performance of Shakespeare’s magical comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” comes to a conclusion this weekend.

Teams coming to the 14th annual International Senior Softball Association World Championships in Manassas on Aug. 15-17 will be part of a milestone event.

Twenty-five French students will be visiting in the Manassas area next month.

Some of the deepest secrets about Seung-Hui Cho’s killing rampage at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, may never be made public. Disclosure of the essential facts of the tragedy in a public archive was a key part of a settlement last month with victims’ families, reached after the university released thousands of pages of internal documents to their lawyers.

A 14-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man were flown with non-life threatening injuries to Inova Fairfax Hospital Sunday night, following a wreck involving the boy’s bicycle and the man’s motorcycle

A Maryland man pleaded guilty in Prince William Circuit Court on Monday for a May 2007 armed robbery at a Dale City gas station.

The Manassas City Council approved a re-assignment of its broadband over power lines franchise agreement Monday.

By the end of today’s Prince William supervisor meeting, Gilberto Guel and his wife expect to know if they can keep their home.

A four-door, green 1996 Honda Accord valued at $4,000 was stolen from outside the owner’s residence in the 3200 block of Birchdale Square between 9 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday.

Sandro Alvarenga-Reyes, 34, of no fixed address, was charged with possession of a concealed weapon after police were called to investigate a complaint of a man armed with a knife.

Action in Community Through Service will sponsor a fashion event on Wednesday called “Prince William PurSuits: Career Fashion Event to Benefit Low Income Men and Women Entering or Re-entering Workforce.”

Summer is just one of the many seasons individuals enjoy outdoor activities. Biking tends to be a favorite among the young and the old.

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-10th will host a free forum to talk about Lyme disease at the Loudoun County School Board office off the Dulles Greenway at 7 p.m., on Aug. 5. 

The Virginia Railway Express/City of Manassas parking deck should be open by the end of the month, said VRE spokesperson Mark Roeber.

More than 4,000 people of all ages endured sweltering summer heat to commemorate the bravery of Virginia children who 50-plus years ago stood up for civil rights and were memorialized today in a stunning statue on Richmond’s Capitol Square.

Results from recent AAA Mid-Atlantic member survey show that people are adjusting their household budgets to to make up for higher gas prices.

Thoughts of an upcoming deployment to Iraq were temporarily banished, as soldiers with the Manassas-based 266th Military Police Company and their families were honored with a picnic Sunday at American Legion Post 28 in Triangle.