Walmart drops store near battlefield

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is dropping plans to build a store near the Wilderness Battlefield in northern Virginia. Lawyers representing the Arkansas-based retailer made the announcement Wednesday in Orange County Circuit Court. • Article

Wrangling over Wal-Mart back in court

Attorneys are due back in court next month in the battle over a Walmart Supercenter proposed near an endangered battlefield in northern Virginia. A trial date was expected to be scheduled at a hearing Tuesday in Orange Circuit Court, but lingering issues delayed that decision until an Aug. 13 hearing. • Article

Fort Stevens, Wilderness on endangered list

The Civil War Preservation Trust will announce Thursday morning that Washington's beleaguered Fort Stevens, where Abraham Lincoln came under enemy gunfire in 1864, has again been placed on the trust's annual list of most endangered Civil War battlefields. • Article

Fight against Wilderness Wal-Mart goes on

A judge has kept alive the battle to block a Wal-Mart store near an endangered Civil War battlefield in Virginia. • Article