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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.

His attorneys said that they planned to ask Virginia's governor for clemency and to file an appeal next month with the US Supreme Court.

Colleges in the Washington area are reporting more than 600 cases of flulike illness at a time when officials are worried about swine flu.

The Harrisonburg Police Department wants to warn all businesses who may cash payroll checks about a recent scam.

The Democratic candidate for the 15th District seat in the House of Delegates laid out his plan to save $7 billion in Interstate 81 improvements during a rally Wednesday night.

As the University of Mary Washington's Eagle Village project moves along, one of the more technical aspects of connecting the mixed-use complex with the college campus will be before the Fredericksburg City Council tonight.

Most holidays honor leaders, faith or the fallen. Labor Day honors work. The Frederick News-Post honors local workers this week with a Labor Day series focusing on men and women our readers have nominated as some of the hardest workers in Frederick County.Their labor is varied, but all these people work hard at what they do.

Few rivers in the United States have witnessed so many pivotal events in American history.

When Jeanie and Dick McNear bought and occupied Hilltop, their home located at Greenwood Farm in Gid Brown Hollow in the mid-1990s, they knew right away that the then abandoned apple packing shed would make a great facility for events, but they hardly could have envisioned how popular it's become.