Fredericksburg News

The University of Mary Washington is weighing a rare midyear tuition increase to help offset drastic state funding cuts.

A man who disapproved of his former girlfriend's new boyfriend pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire scheme yesterday.

Two road projects have the potential to create traffic jams this week in the Fredericksburg area.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Fairfax County police say a 52-year-old man who was shot and killed by officers while he was driving did not have a gun with him.

Nita van der Walt's Ateljee Melodie is a Fredericksburg business providing instruction in voice, piano and music theory.

Victim injured after altercation outside city eatery and nightspot. A Fredericksburg resident was stabbed twice after an altercation outside a city restaurant last night.

About 14 hours before he was shot to death following a traffic pursuit in Fairfax County, David Alan Masters was charged with eluding police in Fredericksburg.

Church of the Messiah, Episcopal, 12201 Spotswood Furnace Lane, will present a special stewardship sermon tomorrow and will kick off a food collection drive to benefit Hope House, a safe house for women and children in Fredericksburg.

Mountain View senior Kaitlyn Davis keeps a written log of every run she completes.

Virginia police responding to a report of a theft in progress shot and killed a suspect.

A suspected armed robber was taken into custody last night after leading police on a three-hour pursuit through woods and water, city police said.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Railway Express commuters are likely to experience severe delays Monday as scheduled signal work on the Fredericksburg line likely will push schedules behind by up to an hour.

Across Virginia yesterday, transportation officials reported road closings on five interstates, 24 primary roads and 158 secondary roads, mostly in Hampton Roads and the Danville area.

MacArthur Center will add two new women's fashion stores in coming months that will be firsts in South Hampton Roads, the downtown mall announced Monday.

Fredericksburg City Manager Beverly Cameron has hired from within to fill the assistant city manager position he left when he took the top post in August.

Four people who police say cashed numerous phony checks in the Fredericksburg area were arrested over the weekend.

Monica Anderson and Stanley Edmonds go to different universities in Virginia. But at the opening of this past weekend's 22nd annual Virginia Film Festival, a unique documentary on their schools' bands and last year's presidential election brought the Fredericksburg-area youths together for a special night.

University of Mary Washington Executive Vice President Rick Hurley, who served as acting president for about a year, plans to retire May 1. Hurley, 62, came to UMW nine years ago and has been a chief financial officer while also directing capital projects, public safety, human resources and business operations.

When James D. Martin was shot dead on an early October evening seven years ago in the parking lot of a grocery store in Wheaton, a northern Washington suburb, it got little attention on the nightly news.Early the next morning, a landscaper was fatally shot in nearby Rockville, also by a .223-caliber bullet.

The Architectural Review Board meets at 3 p.m. Monday in conference room A/B/C of the County Administration Building.