All this at a time when cooperation — not competition — should be part of the solution for both localities’ budget woes.

When life hands you desolation … make artwork.

The passenger in the New York vehicle was masquerading … as a person.

There is a troubling area from which the administration seems to have no idea how to extricate itself: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Award of federal dollars for high-speed rail projects follows the same limping logic that afflicted some of the stimulus funding.

The picture is brighter for enhancements to existing rail service for Virginia.

It’s a Third World parking lot in a world-class city. But insiders say the lot serving the Charlottesville Amtrak station will be paved.

President Obama made an interesting, if troubling, comment in his State of the Union address.

One authority might be born, one might die and one is in transition.

City Manager Gary O’Connell has handed Charlottesville City Council a big job: Finding a replacement.

A retired New Hampshire teacher who turned 100 earlier this month also achieved another milestone: her bachelor’s degree.

Good grief. Spectators were banned at a high school varsity basketball doubleheader in Central, S.C., this week.

Pirates of the Caribbean it’s not. Pirates of the Aleutians, maybe.

Thumbs up to the U.S. Transportation Department for prohibiting texting by commercial drivers of interstate buses and trucks.

Have we come to this? The venerable Virginia Senate feels it must govern clothes lines?

First, an historic snowfall; five weeks later, a major flood.

A proposed law about campus threat assessment teams is too broad in exempting all records from the Freedom of Information Act.

Army doctors should not have missed the signals that Maj. Hasan was in deteriorating health

A recent Justice Department report found that the FBI circumvented the law

Folks in Grand Forks, N.D., will have to rewrite the old mnemonic now that somebody has revised the calendar.

Even the police were targeted for a scam.

A Wisconsin woman who was already having labor pains drove nearly three hours to meet her husband who was returning from Iraq.

A young ballet student with her mom’s aid has raised $1,700 for new ballet shoes for underprivileged children.

The requested transfer of convicted killer Jens Soering to Germany was a rare political misstep for ex-Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.

For the Democrats to lose Ted Kennedy’s seat is a serious blow to morale. But the loss has strategic importance as well.

The federal bailout was supposed to be an emergency measure, but is likely to linger longer than expected in the U.S. economy

Two stories are further evidence of China’s unwillingness to play by the same rules as mature, First World nations.

The county-operated Hollymead and Monticello squads, as well as Scottsville Volunteer Rescue, have agreed to charge fees.

Regardless of whether we here in Central Virginia might know anyone in Haiti, a human tragedy of this enormity must reach us with deep sorrow.

It’s kind of like life that way: Depends on how you look at it.