A state-run Web site to help streamline the process of starting a business has reached a milestone. Gov. Kaine says Virginia's Business One Stop portal has been used by more than 15,000 entrepreneurs to aid their business operations and create jobs. The online business formation portal helps streamline the process to start a business in Virginia by finding and filling out the necessary forms. The governor's office says the site has led to the formation of more than 8,500 new businesses. The project meant to speed transactions and helps eliminate duplication of data began in May 2008. The system, for instance, collects user information and provides and pre-fills forms required by 80 percent of new businesses.
A local doctor says the H1N1 virus can cause problems for pregnant women. Dr. Lia Shorter of the Women's Health and Surgery Center in Stafford says pregnant woman are considered high risk for H1N1 because their immune system is weak and they are prime candidates for pneumonia...
The head of the Fredericksburg area Food Bank says they are still trying to get more turkeys for Thanksgiving. Oya Oliver says they had to buy 2-thousand turkeys this week because the number of donated turkeys coming in was not keeping pace with the demand....
First District Congressman Rob Wittman says he joins with troops on the ground in Afghanistan in anxiously awaiting President Obama's decision on troop levels in the country. Wittman has spent time in Afghanistan. He says American forces already there agree with the U-S commander that 40-thousand more troops are needed...
Operation Christmas Child--the project where you fill a shoe box with school supplies, toys, candy and a letter--hopes go collect 11-thousand boxes in the Fredericksburg area ...
A former financial analyst for the Patent and Trademark Office has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from a government account. A former boyfriend who helped her received an identical sentence....
Health professionals say your best bet against catching H1N1 is getting a shot, when they become available. In the meantime, Dr. Lia Shorter with Women's Health and Surgery Center in Stafford says keep your hands clean...
Gov. Kaine is directing the education department to study the low number of minority students in gifted education programs. The governor's actions follow the release of statistics by school divisions that show African-American and Hispanic students have disproportionately low numbers in those programs...
Virginia Tech is reporting record enrollment in its Graduate School. Virginia Tech said that a total 6,947 graduate students are currently enrolled, including 4,114 master's students and 2,833 doctoral students...
A new report says judicial reforms in Virginia that made it easier to transfer juvenile offenders to the adult system went too far. These reforms were enacted in 1996 in response to a projected increase in juvenile crime...
George Mason and Georgetown universities are partnering to create a new biomedicine program in Virginia. The universities have signed a letter of intent to open the joint biomedical program at George Mason's Prince William County campus next year...
The Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach will unveil its $25 million renovation and expansion. The renovation is scheduled to open today after several delays prevented it from opening as expected on Memorial Day weekend...
The wife of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after hitting a parked car in northern Virginia. Fairfax County Police say an officer stopped 76-year-old Charlene Lugar Wednesday evening at a McLean intersection after seeing damage to her car and smoke coming from the hood...
The Lincoln Memorial is expanding beyond its marble temple for those who may not get to visit the site on the National Mall. The National Park Service has launched a new, interactive Web site with videos, panoramas and oral histories...
Civil rights organizations are asking Gov. Kaine to sign an executive order restoring the rights of nearly 300,000 felons before he leaves office in January. Virginia and Kentucky are the only states that permanently strip felons of their civil rights, such as voting, serving on juries or holding public office...
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