Loudoun County

The city of Martinsville's jobless rate remained the highest in Virginia in October. The Virginia Employment Commission says the city's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 15.2 percent, down from 16.3 percent in both September and last October....

“To the Smithsburg caller: They’re not little yellow flags, they’re Terrible Towels. And don’t you remember when we lent them to you a few years ago, when we thumped you three times in one year? Good luck. Go, Steelers.”...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The city of Martinsville's jobless rate remained the highest in Virginia in July. The Virginia Employment Commission says the city's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 17.4 percent, up slightly from June but down from 19....

Weather forecasters Thursday night warned of heavy rain along the Interstate 95 corridor and eastward in Maryland and Virginia, a spokesman for the National Weather Service said. That means Hagerstown is not part of a flash-flood watch, but nearby...

(AP) -- A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up...

The city of Martinsville's jobless rate remained the highest in Virginia in September. The Virginia Employment Commission says the city's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 16.7 percent, down from 19.1 percent in August and 18.2 percent last...

One person was killed and five others were injured in a three-vehicle crash early Wednesday in Jefferson County, W.Va., following a police chase from Londoun County, Va., a Loudoun County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said. The incident began...

Millions of dollars are headed to local school systems to help with new construction, renovations and expansion projects.  The Virginia Department of Education announced Wednesday the allocation of $229,551,000 in Qualified School Construction Bonds. ...

Plants are in the ground for Washington County's next vineyard. J. Randall Thompson, president and CEO of ThompsonGas, has started a vineyard and wine-making business called Big Cork at his family farm in Rohrersville in southern Washington County....

Maryland commuters have long known that there are only three ways to cross the Potomac between Point of Rocks and the nation's capital. What they don't know is that a century and a half ago, there were more than a dozen. And they're still there today....

Cache of Corpses By Henry Kisor Forge, 300 pages, $24.95 I never had the chance to work for Henry Kisor during the 28 years he was book editor of the Sun-Times, but I heard enough about him from friends to make me wish I had. Luckily for us all, his...

FAIRFAX, Va. -- The Jamaican teen-ager charged in the sniper slayings that sent fear through the Washington region made his first public court appearance Friday, where prosecutors revealed evidence linking him to three of the shooting sites in Virginia...