Amid the gathering malaise of the post-euphoria era of Barack Obama’s presidency, trouble is afoot in Afghanistan.

Electronic medical records are supposed to cut costs and simultaneously improve care. But there are problems with both those goals.

Charlottesville City Council apologized for the conspiracy that had kept 12 city youths from their rightful place in the classroom.

The election for Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District seat held by Eric Cantor, minority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives, is more than a year away. But already the campaign is heating up.

In a fascinating — and much needed — project, University of Virginia students are “updating” advice from the Father of our Country with guidance from etiquette maven Miss Manners.

A school pool in San Antonio was inadvertently catapulted back more than 100 years when it flew a U.S. flag with just 43 stars.

President Bush the elder may have celebrated his 85th birthday with a skydive, but Jane Bockstruck has gone him one better.

The University of Florida has removed a link to its zombie emergency plan from its Web site.

Neither leaders nor residents endorsed a state suggestion

Transparency in government was one of Barack Obama’s “yes we can” calls to a new and better government. The new president’s first public act was to order more federal openness.

Our hearts go out to the family in Orange County whose toddler was killed by their dog.

So, alaw stops you from texting while driving your car but allows the driver of that mammoth 18-wheeler to type onto a computer keyboard?

In a surprising move, school Superintendent Pam Moran recommended that Albemarle County keep three small southern elementary schools open.

If President Barack Obama wants to make good on his promise of transparency, now is the time.

Sponsored by the United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area and named in memory of local media figure and community leader Laurence E. Richardson, the Day of Caring is in its 18th year of looking out for people.

Anyone who thinks that a potato is a potato is a potato should think again.

Universal Orlando Resort is creating the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a new theme park area opening next spring.

At a trial in Northern Virginia this week, an Illinois man pleaded guilty in a nationwide identity theft ring that victimized both individuals and institutions.

Now comes an opportunity to bring back a long-gone species to Virginia, and through no real effort of our own.

Community members are wise to keep up the pressure for better sidewalks and bikeways in the Pantops area.

Recent information about the organization named ACORN is disturbing, discrediting and cause for action.

He’s not the first governor to hold the roles of chief executive, presidential cheerleader, vice presidential contender and party boss, but the timing, given the fiscal state of things, was poor. Virginia needed his attention here.

In a digital age, the written word still has great power.

A California man didn’t see a thing wrong with throwing as many as 3,000 golf balls into Joshua Tree National Park: He was paying tribute to dead golfers.

If the cat has nine lives, how many do you think the dog has?

Us dogs gotta stick together when the fuzz arrives. That must have been the pact a pack made in Hope Mills, N.C.

A thumbs-up also goes to the University of Virginia School of Architecture, which partnered with the Elizabeth River Project to create the Learning Barge.

Congratulations to Charlottesville and Albemarle County students and schools for gains in SAT scores over last year.

The very agency responsible for consumer safety in the transportation of hazardous materials has gotten so chummy with the industry that it has lost sight of its responsibility to the public, a new congressional report charges.

Too many books, too little time,” goes the saying. Well, Virginia inmates may have plenty of time — but now they have too few books.