Williamsburg News

Unaware a car accident had happened a few miles away in James City County, 20-year-old Caleb Gay thought what he spotted Saturday afternoon beneath a hatchback on Route 60 was someone's prank.

The closest airport is the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport, just 17 miles away.

The golf course at Two Rivers Country Club at Governor's Land in Williamsburg, Virginia, has completed a $1.6 million renovation project.

At issue is what the GOP should demand in exchange for raising the debt ceiling again in the fall.

When Debbie Smith stumbled out of the woods behind her house where she was raped by a stranger, she made her way upstairs to her sleeping husband, a police officer.

RICHMOND aS' Virginia's suicide rate is the highest it's been in 13 years, according to the state's chief medical examiner.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates talks with "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer during an interview pretaped Saturday at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

WILLIAMSBURG In passing a package of zoning changes intended to implement the city's new Comprehensive Plan, City Council Thursday opened Williamsburg up to a new type of business - microbreweries and brew pubs.

New details are spilling out of 204 Wythe Avenue, a warehouse-cum-rental conversion being developed by Mack Real Estate Capital and Urban Development Partners, Brownstoner reported.

When the director of the Middle Passage port markers project arrives in Yorktown to give a talk about slavery Friday night, she'll find herself in the perfect place.

Like many of their fruity brethren, pears and strawberries have provided the subject for innumerable watercolor still lifes in the past - yet most of these earnest efforts have produced middling if not worse results at best.

In addition to its well-known commitment to conservation and the natural environment, Busch Gardens and SeaWorld Parks are strong supporters of initiatives within the community.

The Camden Hills Regional High School Visual and Performing Arts Dept. recently named Alex Crans as May Student of the Month Crans has been very active in the Camden Hills band program and has earned a number of awards and honors.

Jon Meacham, Pulizter Prize winner and best-selling author of "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power," will speak about Jefferson tomorrow at Colonial Williamsburg .

Seven local public high schools are ranked among the top 2,000 in the nation, according to an online list released by Newsweek magazine Monday.

Ed Swanson has decided to leave Sacred Heart University after 23 seasons and will become the next women's basketball coach at William & Mary, Hearst Connecticut confirmed on Monday afternoon.

The other day I overheard my adult son talking to my husband. 'Next week is Mother's Day ?!," he asked...or shrieked.

A Williamsburg woman faces charges of child abuse after her one-month-old daughter suffered bruises and a broken arm, according to police.

It was another fight to the finish in Williamsburg, Va. at the Kingsmill Championship, as Cristie Kerr outlasted Suzann Pettersen in a two-hole sudden-death playoff for her 16th career victory.

John D. Rockerfeller, Jr. sought to preserve the Colonial Village that was the capital of England's oldest, largest and richest colony from1699 to 1780.