Jefferson News

The holiday travel season is here. This year, many people are lining up to get something special before they head out of town: a swine flu shot.

In his victory speech Tuesday night, Virginia's conservative Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell spoke of the Founding Fathers, the American dream, free enterprise, liberty, hard work and opportunity.

We only have two weeks until all of our hard work over the past few months pays off.

A four-block stretch of Jefferson Avenue will be closed over the weekend while CSX works on a railroad crossing.

The Second Street Festival celebrates the rich cultural history of Jackson Ward.

Gardening Seminars: Strange's Florist, Greenhouse and Garden Center offers fall garden talks on a variety of topics on Saturdays this month.

Merrill D. Peterson, a noted Thomas Jefferson scholar and University of Virginia history professor, died Wednesday in Charlottesville.

A federal judge has denied the request for a new trial by a former Louisiana congressman convicted of corruption.

One of Richmond's most-anticipated annual events -- Restaurant Week -- is set for Oct.

Fairfax County public high schools and secondary schools with the lowest percentage of students poor students produced the highest average Scholastic Achievement Test scores in 2009.

Seventy-one percent of Virginia's public schools met annual benchmarks in reading and mathematics under the No Child Left Behind law.

There was a two vehicle accident at the intersection of Jefferson and McMorrow Streets in Newport News at around 9:27 a.m. Friday morning.

Here is a sampling of events for your mid-July entertainment: Bastille Day Celebration, Saturday, noon-5 p.m. at Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard, 100 Grand Cru Drive in Charlottesville.

Radford University and city officials discussed the possibility of a bus transit system, ways to solve the university's parking problem, pedestrian safety and campus expansion into the city at a meeting in Radford's Martin Hall on Friday.

Festivities abound in the Lynchburg area today to mark the day - including at the homes of two of our nation's best-known patriots.

Bob McDonnell, Republican gubernatorial nominee and former Attorney General of Virginia, proposed Wednesday a formal series of ten gubernatorial debates, taking place statewide, between himself and Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds.

SCOTTSVILLE, Va. - For more than 130 years, ferrymen have jammed poles into the James River's gravelly shallows to push the Hatton Ferry slowly across to other side.

Browse> Home / Top Story / Flood Watch Begins @ 2PM For Nelson & Nearby Counties : 6.4.09 Flood Watch begins late afternoon Thursday for the areas shaded in green, including Nelson County, Virginia.

Local, state and national Democrats gathered in Prince William County this past Saturday to raise money, make promises and ask for votes before the June 9 primary at the 30th annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner hosted by the PWC Democratic Committee.

Something bright flashed near the surface of the murky James River. Will McCahill swung at it with a net and caught a piece of living history.