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Amtrak officials joined local politicians Wednesday, Sept. 30 at the Burke Centre Station to celebrate the official launch of Amtraka s Northeast Regional train service.

The Northeast Regional, the first state-supported passenger train in Virginia's history, got off to a rousing start yesterday.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine joined former Gov. Linwood Holton, Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman, Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman and state and local officials Wednesday on a Whistle Stop Train Tour to launch new passenger rail service between Lynchburg and Amtraka s Northeast Corridor.

Amtrak's Northeast Regional train stopped in Manassas on Wednesday to commemorate Virginia's first major investment in passenger rail service.

A team of researchers from MIT and other area schools and facilities have created a prototype of an eye implant to help restore vision to blind people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa or age-related macular degeneration.

Amtrak Virginia will begin offering daily, round-trip Northeast Regional service between Lynchburg and Union Station in Washington on Oct.

NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

A state board for professional regulation ruled Tuesday that the town of Culpeper's ex-planning director/head engineer blurred the line between public and private business, at times getting compensated twice for the same project.

Starting Oct. 1, Amtrak passengers in Lynchburg can travel as far north as Boston and never have to change trains.

According to the website jointogether.org, the U.S. is facing a wave of addiction and mental-health problems among returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars greater than that resulting from the Vietnam War, according to experts at the recent Wounds of War conference sponsored by the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia ...

After getting underway with a festival appearance last weekend in Pittsfield, MA, Vega's latest jaunt continues Aug.

Men who are natural born worriers tend to die earlier than their relaxed peers because they are more likely to adopt unhealthy habits like smoking and heavy drinking, according to a U.S. study.

Personality traits associated with chronic worrying can lead to earlier death, at least in part because these people are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, according to research from Purdue University.

The mortal dangers of combat are obvious. But military service is physically strenuous regardless, and it can leave this country's "citizen soldiers" with lingering aches.

The Board of Trustees at Logan Memorial Hospital is announced Monday that William C. Haugh will become the hospital's Chief Executive Officer , effective September 28.

Friday, July 24, 4 p.m. The Culpeper County Sheriff's Office is warning drivers in the county to be aware of a man they suspect is impersonating a law enforcement officer.

A man impersonating a police officer may be in the Culpeper area. Culpeper County Sheriff Jim Branch said a man in an unmarked white car with blue lights in the front grill stopped a woman driver in the Boston area about 4 a.m. yesterday.

The potential role of periodontitis, an inflammatory disease of the gums, in the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly ischemic stroke, has received growing attention during the last decade.

Charges against a Boston, Va., woman alleging cruelty to horses have been dropped, court records show.

Rappahannock County public schools may be heading in a new direction. With the announced retirement of School Superintendent Dr.