Morris estimates that the Walmart addition will be complete by fall 2010.

In the 70 years since “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” debuted at the box office, protagonist Jefferson Smith — played by Jimmy Stewart — has served as an icon in American politics.

The Virginia State Police ask anyone with information about Harrington to call 352-3435 or e-mail .

If sharpened steel blades whirling at high speed make you queasy or the thought of 120 volts of household current running through your veins makes you swoon, you might want to make a quick visit this morning to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.

“I’m sorry to each one of you that I have harmed,” Donnelly said.

Albemarle County Supervisor Kenneth C. Boyd on Friday formally launched his campaign to seek the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, in next year’s midterm congressional election.

A major problem with the Red-skins is not the players but the owner, Dan Snyder. Money does not buy team spirit.

It seems that IMPACT’s mission is simply to lobby for more and more wealth transfer payments from party A to party B.

“Trust us. We’re here from the federal government and we’re here to help you.”

“I understand what the crime says about me, but I can do something about this,” Donnelly said.

NATO is reporting the deaths of two more American service members in Afghanistan.

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist and Virginia Tech graduate trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

A 2,000-plus acre farm in Nelson County valued at $15.5 million filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, a day before it was scheduled to go up for public auction on the steps of the Lovingston courthouse.

Three Charlottesville School Board members said Thursday that the division should look into either leaving its grade configuration as is or having one middle school instead of both an upper elementary school and middle school.

Monticello’s new visitor center has been awarded LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

A Charlottesville man and two Louisa County men pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges Thursday.

Today is the first day of Giant Food stores’ 22nd annual Good Neighbor Food and Funds Drive. In the Charlottesville area, donations of money or nonperishable foods will go to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.

What can a fellow do if a dead deer is in his driveway? May a person shoot a goose or duck that is on his property? These are just two of the wildlife issues that a group of University of Virginia School of Law students grappled with Thursday during its weekly “Animal Law 9040” seminar.

“This is sort of a numbers’ game, we’re looking for the needle in the haystack.”

As the Virginia Film Festival ramped up Thursday, Princeton University professor Maria DiBattista told an audience she doesn’t think Depression-era comedies were escapist, despite common sentiments to the contrary.

It is projected that the energy bill now before the Senate will create 28,000 or more new jobs in Virginia. When?

How wonderful it was to read John Whitehead’s column in the Oct. 25 Daily Progress.

Virginia voters gave Bob McDonnell a mandate to focus on the commonwealth’s lagging economy.

A Fort Hood spokeswoman says one shooter is in custody after a mass shooting on the Texas Army base. Army officials say at least seven people are dead and 20 wounded.

About 400 members of a Lynchburg-based Virginia National Guard battalion are being mobilized for a security mission in Iraq.

Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival — which begins today — have already surpassed the number sold for last year’s festival.

The effort will be organized by the Laura Recovery Center for missing children, a Texas-based nonprofit.

Family members of Shannon Abbs who voted in Tuesday’s election: six. Votes by which she appears to have upset an incumbent for a seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors: five.

Albemarle supervisors agreed Wednesday to practically double the county’s payments to the SPCA and discussed ways to throw a life preserver to the Hatton Ferry.

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has overruled the recommendations of its Planning Commission — and the wishes of many in the Woodbrook neighborhood — by requiring the developer of a luxury apartment complex off Rio Road to widen a proposed trail and connect it to public property.