Stafford County

Land development surrounding Marine Corps Base Quantico �and the impact on the installation and its neighbors �will be the subject of a series of public meetings beginning at the end of the month. Residents of Stafford, Prince William...

6:45 p.m. The balloting for the Virginia GOP's lieutenant governor nomination is heading to a third ballot with Chesapeake minister and attorney E.W. Jackson still solidly in first place. Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter, R-Prince William and Susan B....

Mike Merrick's trip from Washington to his home in Raleigh, N.C., normally takes about 3 hours, 45 minutes. Not so on Friday, after a tractor �trailer crash and hazardous-materials spill on southbound Interstate 95 caused massive congestion on...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal kicked off the state Republican Convention in Richmond last night, telling a packed house that Ken Cuccinelli, the GOP nominee for governor, has the courage of his convictions. Jindal, a son of immigrants from India who is...

Some 13,000 Republicans are about to convene on Richmond this weekend. When the smoke clears from their two-day convention, the GOP will have whittled its lieutenant governor field down from seven to one and picked an attorney general candidate out of...

Here are some odds and ends over the past week from the world of Fredericksburg-area business: * The two 140,000-square-foot office buildings that Washington Real Estate Investment Trust owns at the Quantico Corporate Center in North Stafford have...

A proposed mixed-use development next to Spotsylvania County's planned Virginia Railway Express station will either generate local revenue or strain infrastructure �depending on whom you ask. After being presented with those conflicting...

You don't need to be a runner to enjoy this weekend's Marine Corps Historic Half activities. And you don't need to spend a dime to learn about nutrition, exercise and even some Marine Corps history. This weekend's Historic Half events run over three...

You're forgiven if you can't name the seven Republican men and women running for lieutenant governor, one of whom will be nominated at the GOP convention Saturday in Richmond. It's a low-profile contest that will be settled by a subset of the roughly...

Stafford School Board members appeared shocked Tuesday night after Superintendent Randy Bridges announced his resignation, a year before his contract was slated to end. Bridges will leave his job as head of the school division on July 31. He presented...

Virginia Democrats aren't gaga over their nominee for governor, Terry McAuliffe. He has issues. He can't win just by howling about the other guy's. And Ken Cuccinelli's are considerable. What McAuliffe and out-of-power Democrats need, Virginia has in...

A Stafford County doctor and former hospital chief who was arrested Friday on multiple felonies prescribed tens of thousands of doses of narcotics to clinically fragile patients with existing drug addictions, according to disciplinary files and criminal...