For a block or two on either side of the train tracks, Main Street in this quaint Piedmont town looks like something straight from a movie set.

The Wal-Mart proposal has angered historic preservations

Wal-Mart is seeking the board’s blessing for a store near the Wilderness battlefield.

A Gordonsville man’s hoax terrorist device trial ended during his opening statement Tuesday when the judge declared a mistrial and ordered him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

ORANGE — Wal-Mart’s proposal to build a Supercenter near a hallowed Civil War battlefield won the backing of Orange County planners Thursday.

The Orange County Planning Commission is scheduled to take up the retailer’s proposal this evening, with the final decision remaining with the Board of Supervisors.

The private nonprofit preservation group sided with a who’s who of historians, congressmen and celebrities who have taken a stand against the 138,000-square-foot store in Orange County.

An Orange County man was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for killing a Lynchburg man in a motel parking lot in April 2008.

Orange County recently gave a face lift to its Crime Solvers program, allowing all callers to remain anonymous and handing out cash for tips leading to arrests.

A major battlefield that straddles Orange and Spotsylvania counties is among 10 Civil War sites considered endangered, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonprofit preservation group.

Wal-Mart and its supporters say the store would be behind a bank and a strip mall, a mile from the entrance to the site of the 1864 clash.

Orange County fire claims life of man

In 1990, 21,421 people lived in Orange County.

Barboursville resident John P. “Big John” Miska, who is the commander of Ruckersville’s VFW post, has filed the suit against the National Park Service, agency director Mary A. Bomar, Washington-area director Peggy O’Dell and Dwight E. Pettiford, chief of the National Park Service Police.

The James Madison Museum in Orange unveiled its “Presidential Cousins” exhibit to celebrate presidents Zachary Taylor and his second cousin James Madison.

Construction-site melee ended in worker’s death

They buried Wanda Turner Hamilton on Friday, a week late and 30 miles from the grave she wanted next to her father.

Second fatal skydiving accident in two months

Two incumbents are vying for re-election Nov. 4 to the Gordonsville Town Council.

A Ruckersville man died early Monday after plunging an estimated 200 feet when his parachute became entangled with that of a fellow skydiver.

A Ruckersville man died hours after a group parachute jump Sunday afternoon at the Orange County Airport, according to the Virginia State Police.

The Orange County Fair Association Inc. has received a 100-acre donation for its county fair.

President James Madison’s newly renovated Orange County home is smaller, prettier and more authentic now.

A former Albemarle prosecutor will be joining the Orange County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office.

Thirty-one macaws seized by animal control officials from an Orange County couple in May will be transferred to a facility in Florida and returned to the couple in 18 months, providing they pay nearly $20,000 in medical bills owed to local veterinarians.

MONTPELIER STATION — James and Dolley Madison’s Montpelier is swarming with people adding final touches to the mansion.

The Boys & Girls Club of Orange, which offers after-school and summer programs to more than 100 students a day, received a $100,000 donation this week from the Dominion Foundation, a charitable division of Dominion Virginia Power’s parent company.

School officials locked down Prospect Heights Middle School April 30 after a student reported seeing a suspicious person inside the school, claiming that the person had grabbed her and that she broke free of the man.

After five days of testimony, evidence and arguments at his trial earlier this year, it took jurors only hours to find Long guilty of the slayings.

ORANGE — Officials locked down Prospect Heights Middle School on Wednesday after a student reported seeing a suspicious person inside the school.