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Charities are big business in the U.S., and now -- the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve -- is the usual peak for donors who have big hearts and grand pocketbooks.

In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, arrive at a State Dinner hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington.

The Rappahannock River Basin Commission hosts a symposium, "Incentivizing Restoration Through a Chesapeake Bay Economy," Dec.

Federal prosecutors say two men have been sentenced for plotting to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.

One of the two winning tickets for Tuesday night's $77 million Mega Millions jackpot was sold in northern New Jersey.

A Thanksgiving dinner where you don't have to clean up afterward is truly something to be thankful about.

The man who terrorized the Washington DC area for three weeks in 2002 has been put to death.

Seven years after he and his teenage sidekick terrorised the Washington area with a three-week killing spree using a high-powered rifle, John Allen Muhammad - the 'Beltway sniper' - is due to be executed tonight by lethal injection.

Two hotels and a restaurant in Virginia have received AAA's top rating. The travel group gave its Five Diamond Award to The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, The Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Va., and The Inn at Little Washington's restaurant.

Boards filled with maps of the Rappahannock River and special spots along it were spread out for those interested in the John Smith trail to see.

E-mail: bpriley@vcu.edu Received 27 March 2009; Revised 4 June 2009; Accepted 16 September 2009; Published online 20 October 2009.

Tonight we left the Tysons Corner area and deadheaded straight into a gridlocked morass of traffic crunched on the Beltway, travelling into Maryland, inch by inch.

By a 4-3 vote, the Leesburg Town Council put to bed a six-year-long struggle of what should be done with the Meadowbrook property.

Virginia women have plenty of reason to feel offended by their state's gubernatorial race, though not because the Republican candidate once wrote a dissertation observing that the American family had suffered as a result of women joining the work force.

Mervis Diamond Importers is teaming up with an airline and a Washington radio station to give away 10-day trips to South Africa.

Gov. Tim Kaine said Tuesday he could not think of any reason he would stop the execution of John Allen Muhammad , left, who was sentenced to death in the sniper killing of a man at a Manassas gas station.

Marine Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Clookey received a Bronze Star with valor device during a ceremony yesterday at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

At a glance What: Rappahannock Farm Tour When: Saturday, Sept. 26 and Sunday, Sept.

Rappahannock County wants to put a new, taller emergency-communications antenna up next to the Sheriff's Office, on the Carrigan property, and has applied for a special use permit from the Town of Washington to do so.

A terminated town police officer says he should be allowed to appeal his firing.