Manassas (Manassas, Virginia)

Kinsley: The killing drones on

2013-01-10 00:00:00

The most famous painting of the 20th century, Picasso's "Guernica," commemorates the 1937 bombing of this small Spanish town by the German air force, in support of Gen. Francisco Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Hard to believe, but this was...

Robocalls by retailers barred by law, court rules

2012-10-17 11:52:25

McManus: Applying the 'ground game'

2012-10-21 00:00:00

Outside the old red-brick City Hall in Manassas, Va., Dorothy Cummings was beaming. She had finally persuaded her son Charles to register to vote — and now she was marching him into the registrar's office to make sure he got it done. "Three votes...

A journey through Civil War sites

2011-07-01 11:29:00

Although the Civil War was waged across the country — from Arizona to Maine — some of the heaviest and most decisive fighting took place in the beautiful rolling countryside of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Piedmont, as it's called,...

Oscars 2012: 'Undefeated' filmmakers say sorry for the F-bomb

2012-02-26 21:38:36

Oscar documentary shortlist includes 'Paradise Lost 3,' 'Project Nim'

2011-11-18 16:36:46

Civil War deeply rooted in Virginia

2011-04-10 00:00:00

On a blustery late-winter afternoon at Manassas, where a muscular statue of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson marks the spot where the Confederate general earned his nickname, the Civil War lives, not separate from life in Virginia, but intricately entwined with...

A chapter that's all but forgotten: When the Civil War came west

2011-04-11 00:00:00

Things hadn't gone according to plan — do they ever in war? — and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The cavalry officer and his dozen or so men would rescue his colleague, Capt. William McCleave, from those nettlesome rebels...

Missouri's bloody Civil War battles

2011-04-10 00:00:00

"Split state" used to sound simple to me, as though it were 50-50, North versus South, nice tidy halves. But Missouri wasn't just split in the Civil War. It was shattered. Rifts ran through every level of society all over the state — through...

Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI

2011-04-15 16:35:35

John Jorgenson at Grammy Museum's night of 'Great Guitars'

2011-01-25 16:35:46

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...

Abigail Gorrell, center, 9, of the Academy of Russian Ballet in Manassas, VA, thinks through her performance during open stage Friday at the University of Hartford's Millard Auditorium. Gorrell's contemporary ballet entry in the Youth America Grand Prix, was called "Me and My Bear."

2013-03-23 00:00:00

A man reads biographer Paula Broadwell's book "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," in Manassas, Virginia, on November 13, 2012.

2012-11-13 00:00:00

A stumbler zombie (which moves slowly), played by Alicia Pituch of Manassas, Va., creeps for brains as runners avoid her craving of flags.

2012-10-28 14:10:00