HERNDON Fairfax County police say four barnyard animals were attacked overnight at a Herndon area farm park. Police say farm staff at Kidwell Barn at Frying Pan Farm Park discovered Sunday morning that two goats, a calf and a chicken had been cut by an unknown object, but the injuries do not appear to be life-threatening. The attack would have happened sometime after 5 p.m. Saturday.

The sight of wind turbines atop Roanoke County's highest mountain -- a view dreamed of by some and dreaded by others -- is at least three years away. Invenergy, a Chicago-based wind energy company with plans to build 15 to 18 giant windmills on Poor Mountain, has pushed its target date to 2015.

RICHMOND If Virginia is a battleground in the presidential race, there are a handful of strategic battlefields that will decide whether the Old Dominion favors Republican Mitt Romney or Democratic President Barack Obama this fall.

ROANOKE The Federal Aviation Administration didn't know that Carilion Clinic's new Rockbridge County helipad existed. It's unlikely that the military knew about the site tucked behind a shopping center on U.S. 11, although pilots from several bases routinely fly training missions nearby. It took just 13 days — and a near disaster — to bring attention to the new landing spot.

WASHINGTON The CIA is remembering those lost in the hidden, often dangerous world of espionage, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its hallowed Book of Honor. The new star carved into the wall is for Jeffrey Patneau, a young officer killed in a car crash in Yemen in September 2008.

FARMVILLE A violent felon who was accidently freed from a regional jail in Farmville is the focus of a manhunt. The Progress-Index (http://bit.ly/LmZA01) of Petersburg reports that 31-year-old Carter Sherrod Tillery was serving a 30-year federal sentence in a high-security federal prison in West Virginia for robbing a Petersburg merchant with a sawed-off shotgun in 2009.

Virginia has been forced to adopt stricter rules for harvesting shellfish during summer months, beginning this week, after a second case surfaced of a person getting sick from eating oysters tainted by a dangerous bacteria called vibrio.

FALLS CHURCH Virginia Senate candidate George Allen's three conservative rivals won louder ovations from a conservative gathering at their final debate Friday, while the front-runner instead gave more seasoned and measured responses to subjects including foreign policy and an openly gay judicial nominee.

CHARLOTTESVILLE A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend is appealing his conviction.

RICHMOND Richmond police are investigating allegations that two officers made "inappropriate comments" during President Obama's recent visit.