Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

The pleasures of Texas barbecue

2013-03-15 17:32:00

Everyone has their own iconic food -- not just a food they really like, or even really love, but a food around which the world turns. For me, it’s barbecue. And not just any barbecue, but Texas barbecue. Credit my passion to a sentimental...

Monster Mash: Changes to Martin Luther King Jr. memorial

2012-01-16 16:33:04

Matthew G. 'Marty' Martinez dies at 82; former congressman

2011-10-21 22:30:00

Former U.S. Rep. Matthew G. "Marty" Martinez, an advocate for youth and the elderly who switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican after he was voted out of office in 2000, died Oct. 15 at his home in Fredericksburg, Va., his family said....

Monster Mash: Questions remain on Rembrandt recovery

2011-08-17 16:33:05

A Civil War road trip

2011-04-10 00:00:00

Ken Burns, whose landmark documentary on the Civil War established him as one of its quintessential authorities, thinks there's no better way to get a sense of the Civil War than to visit its battlefields, museums and national parks. "When we go to Civil...

Military deaths

2009-10-25 00:00:00

The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: David R. Baker, 22, of Painesville, Ohio; lance corporal, Marine Corps. Baker was killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near...

Kristy Lee Cook: singer and gunslinger

2010-05-21 16:34:01

'Now the Drum of War' by Robert Roper

2009-01-16 00:00:00

The American Civil War became known as an "unwritten war" because so few attempted or succeeded in writing anything substantial about it at the time. Yet perhaps this view is only partly true. Emily Dickinson's most prolific outpouring of poems...

Day trips in Virginia

2009-01-06 14:19:24

Virginia is loaded with history, and there is no shortage of day trips from Washington. Here are two suggestions: Mt. Vernon George Washington's home is so vast and fascinating that it's worth spending four to six hours here. The first highlight is...

Latest Confirmed Casualties and Missing Persons in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

2001-09-15 19:57:00

The following is a list of confirmed dead as of Monday. List compiled from sources including Pentagon websites, New York Coroner's Office, and Times wire services, by Times researchers Cary Schneider and Kent Coloma and Times staff writer Myrna Oliver....

Latest Maryland and Delaware news, sports, business and entertainment:

2013-05-25 07:39:21

Cape May-Lewes Ferry canceled for high winds LEWES, Del. (AP) — There's some bad news for Memorial Day weekend travelers in Delaware. The Cape May-Lewes Ferry is closed for the day Saturday because of high winds in the area. Officials announced...

Va. man, former teacher, gets 14 years for producing child porn; filmed victims in Japan

2013-05-24 12:07:21

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former preschool teacher has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for producing child pornography by filming his sexual abuse of 5-year-old students in Japan. Fifty-four-year-old James Manring of Fredericksburg pleaded...

Ravens fan Bradley Knisely, 10, of Fredericksburg, Va., makes a diving football catch during field drills.

2013-04-27 00:00:00

Laura Preston backpacking up Enchanted Rock with Bulleit outside of Fredericksburg, TX.

2013-04-08 00:00:00

World War II Veteran Dr. Charles E. Rath, 93, of Silverspring, was awarded his Bronze Star Medal at Fort Meade

2012-11-09 00:00:00