Fredericksburg City Manager Bev Cameron gave City Council last night a proposed budget that keeps that tax rate at 68 cents. Cameron proposes four furlough days. The school resource officer at Walker Grant is cut. The rental housing inspection program is eliminated. Outside agencies have their requests reduced. Several--including the Bluemont Concert Series, Heritage Festival and Sister City Association are eliminated. Cameron called the budget--"Living within our means." Cameron says, "There are many worthy programs and services that can't be funded at sufficient levels because there just isn't enough money to go around." Cameron says regional retail competition has hurt the city. He says sales tax revenue is off 3.4 million dollars what it was five years ago. City Council now begins work on the budget. A public hearing will be held April 20th.
Virginia Senate and House budget negotiators will meet again today as they work to resolve differences in their competing versions of a two-year $75 billion budget....
A Fairfax man at the center of a massive cigarette-smuggling ring has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hire a hitman to murder someone he thought had stolen from him. The plea from 32-year-old Xing Xiao is the 14th conviction obtained by authorities who broke up the Stafford County ring....
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says Virginia is among 35 states settling a false advertising suit against an Arizona company that promised to protect consumers from identity theft...
The College of William and Mary is considering increasing its freshman class this fall to boost revenue. Provost Mike Halleran has been talking to faculty members about increasing the upcoming freshman class by 50 students to help alleviate the Williamsburg school's budget shortfall...
Officials have identified the pilot who was killed when his plane crashed into a house in central Virginia. Virginia State Police identified the pilot as 62-year-old James Youngquist of Reston...
Virginia's House of Delegates has unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the release of a German diplomat's son imprisoned in the state for murder...
