A Virginia man who had gone to drop off his trash at the Route 41 dump bin was caught to his surprise when he found a 188-year-old King James Bible along with other books in a box meant for disposal. The man, who's fending off offers approaching $1,000, says the price offered for the ancient Bible is not realistic and thus would "hold on to it for now. " In an interview with the Danville Register and Bee, electrician Michael Hoskins, who discovered the rare, ancient Bible, said, "I go up there all the time to drop off my household trash, and there it was. There were three or four boxes of books leaning up against the concrete wall behind the Dumpsters. "

A Virginia based travel agency is offering a $15 million space walk outside the Russian segments of the orbiting international space station. Space Adventures Ltd. , the company which first arranged for the first space trip for a tourist, made the offer on Friday. The agency said the walk will include an observation of the orbit of the Earth. The fee is in addition to the $20 million Space Adventures would charge for a 10-day round trip to the space trip.

A 39-year-old Virginia man is facing 150 years in prison after being convicted of sexually exploiting a minor and operating child pornography Web sites. Gregory John Mitchel was sentenced in federal court Friday. He pled guilty to the charges in January. He has prior convictions of child pornography crimes.

After 300 years, the Witch of Pungo is no longer a witch. Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine gave an informal pardon on Monday to Grace Sherwood, who became Virginia's only person convicted as a witch tried by water.

An India-born American teenager has set a record by memorizing 10,980 digits of 'pi', the ratio of circumference of a circle to its diameter. The previous North American record was set up by a 27-year-old who recited 10,625 digits of the non-ending decimal. 15-year-old Gaurav Raja, an 11th grader of Salem High School in Virginia, has reserved ninth position in the world, by reciting the digits in the value of pi at two numbers per second for one hour, 14 minutes and 28 seconds.