At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Dan and Gil Harrington formally announced three days of searches to be held in Charlottesville this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the search for their missing daughter Morgan.

An ebullient Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele asserted today that GOP victories in governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey demonstrate “a transcendent party” on the move again.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, the National Democratic Committee chairman, and House Republican Whip Eric I. Cantor of Henrico County squared off on the “Today” show this morning over the impact of yesterday’s elections that saw Republicans capture governorships here and in New Jersey.

A year after tipping Democratic for president for the first time since 1964, Virginia fell to Republicans in a dramatic statewide sweep that is a historic reminder of its enduring competitiveness but may not be a model for a national GOP comeback.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to stop next week’s execution.

A 28-year-old clerk at a Christian bookstore in Simi Valley has been arrested on charges of peeping at customers in the restroom with a video camera.

Elected just a year ago, the president has spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to ensure that Democrats win governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey and pick up a GOP-held congressional seat in upstate New York.

A soured love affair may have led an ex-convict to gun down four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series “The Andy Griffith Show,“ police said Monday.

Dan and Gil Harrington are using the donations to print and distribute fliers and other material with a photo and description of 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington.

A man suspected of fatally shooting four men in the parking lot of a North Carolina television shop was arrested early today in Virginia, police said.

After all the noise over Democrats’ push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent.

About 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan, the White House said Friday, saying it is on track to reach the president’s goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

The flag-draped casket that President Barack Obama saluted early yesterday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware contained the remains of a former student at Virginia Military Institute.

At least two issues stand between Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, and a “yes” vote on the health care bill that was proposed in the House of Representatives this week, he and his spokeswoman said Friday.

She can’t explain the light that burned brightly without electricity or the overturned salt dishes on the dining room table, so Anne Holton puts it this way:

A North Carolina-based paratrooper charged after he helped subdue a fellow soldier who later died has agreed to a plea bargain that could give him 30 days in jail and dock his pay.

A motorized La-Z-Boy used by a man who pleaded guilty to driving it drunk is going up for auction.

In October 2002, the shots came from out of nowhere, as seemingly random as they were cold-blooded, leaving 10 dead, three wounded, and millions of people frightened.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says new health care legislation will make affordable, quality health care available to nearly all Americans and represents a historic step.

One professor called it spiteful.

Virginia’s ban on alcohol-related advertising in college newspapers is before a federal appeals court in Richmond.

The death of Joshua Woolmer, 13, of Edgewood, Md., raised to three the number of people killed in wrecks in the last week on a quarter-mile stretch near 29’s intersection with Plank Road, police said.

A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student faces a felony charge after a prank involving a wooden rifle prop, Chesterfield County police said.

A revised proposal to limit jury anonymity to cases where it is warranted has been posted on the high court’s Web site.

ALTAPASS - Three thousand people turned off the Blue Ridge Parkway this past weekend to visit the historic Orchard at Altapass, drawn by the valley and ridges covered in burnt orange and red, yellow and green.

Phil Bradley shivered in lonely silence on the mountain by the demolished plane. His injuries left him unable to move. He knew better than to look at the bodies of his fellow passengers. If help didn’t come soon, he realized he’d face a more agonizing death than any of them had.

President Barack Obama is giving a jolt to the futuristic “smart” electric grid, hoping to bring America’s power transmission system into the digital age more quickly.

A Baltimore city police officer delivered the fright of a lifetime to a haunted house employee, pulling a gun on the chain-saw-wielding man at the end of his act, authorities said Monday.

Swine flu is especially risky for people with chronic illnesses, and it’s not the greatest news for an economy still trying to shake off recession.

What’s bigger than a picnic basket and even better than one in the eyes of black bears that live in Yosemite National Park?