Culpeper County News

My husband, Deputy Kim Gearhart, and I would like to thank the caring and responsive employees of Culpeper Animal Hospital.

A 30-year-old Culpeper man was arrested following an assault Thursday night at Sleepy Hollow trailer park.

New census figures show Culpeper County's poverty rate declined in the past decade and is now below the state average.

A 49-year-old man wounded in a robbery and shooting at a Culpeper convenience store earlier this month remains hospitalized in Charlottesville.

For two hours last night the Culpeper County Planning Commission heard from neighbors who claim that the Cedar Mountain Youth shooting range just off U.S. 15 has become both excessively noisy and very dangerous in the past few years.

On Wednesday, Nov. 11, Culpeper County deputies responded to a report of a breaking and entering at 17277 Poor Farm Rd.

It took firefighters about six hours to extinguish a single-story house fire on Settle Brook Lane Saturday evening, according to Salem Volunteer Fire Department.

Culpeper County * Route 229 from Duke Street to Route 684: Widening from two to four lanes.

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

The woman charged with multiple counts of cruelty to retired polo ponies on her Orange County farm has died.

Oct. 1: Kenneth "Kalven" Wayne Jenkins III, son of Kenneth "Ken" Wayne Jenkins Jr.

Fire investigators believe an electrical problem may have caused a house fire in Elkwood early Monday morning.

A gentleman, a good Samaritan, a civic-minded citizen, a native son - the 2009 L.B. Henretty Outstanding Citizen of Culpeper Award winner embodies all this and then some.

On Tuesday, hours before hosting Culpeper County Chairman Bill Chase's election-night victory party, a new restaurant at the Lord Culpeper Hotel was cited by the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

Culpeper police officially charged an 18-year-old Culpeper man with five additional felony charges today related to yesterday's robbery and shooting of a clerk at Westside Grocery on Sperryville Pike.

Ted Smith, Vice-President of Donated Goods at Rappahannock Goodwill Industries, is a newbie to the relic hunter circuit.

Culpeper police, Virginia State police and Culpeper County Sheriffs deputies are investigating an armed robbery and shooting at a grocery store in Culpeper.

After eight years in exile, the Republican Party finally has a Virginia governor.

If you're on Sperryville Pike, just a few miles from town, you might hear the terrified screams of a few souls lost in the woods for the last time.

The Star-Exponent editorial board endorses these candidates in Tuesday's contested races ... * School Board, Cedar Mountain District: We back incumbent Elizabeth Hutchins over Richard Goff for her leadership, expertise, hard work and commitment to quality education in Culpeper County.