The U.S. Postal Service will close its Roanoke mail-processing facility, a union representative said tonight.
Gov. Bob McDonnell's administration has reached a deal with Amazon.com Inc. for the giant online retailer to start collecting sales taxes in Virginia.
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A last-ditch effort to soften legislation allowing private adoption agencies to discriminate based on sexual orientation has failed in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Washington National Cathedral says it has raised $2 million to cover restoration work after last year's earthquake severely damaged the building.
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The Virginia House of Delegates has reaffirmed its support for repealing the state's one-handgun-a-month law.
A Dinwiddie County official says two people have been shot at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. distribution center. County Fire Department spokeswoman Denice Marrs says one person was airlifted from the center after the shooting,...
Air Force investigators say they're unable to determine what caused a fighter jet to crash in rural Nevada in October.
A Frederick County judge is affirming a decision blocking a key component of a proposed multistate power line.
State police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of a man in parking lot at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond.
The superintendent of the West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to defraud the federal government, becoming the highest-ranking employee to face criminal prosecution...
A Dinwiddie County official says two people have been shot at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. distribution center in the county.
The Virginia Zoo's squirrel monkey family has a new member.
More than a dozen Virginia localities are receiving state grants to encourage students to walk or ride bicycles to schools.
The Danville Area Humane Society is offering a reward to catch whoever abused a white rat, wrapped it in masking tape and dumped it by the side of a road.
Jury deliberations are under way in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player charged in the slaying of his former girlfriend in a drunken rage.
Charlottesville isn't going to allow an urban hunt to control the city's deer population, at least for the immediate future.
A May trial is set for a 13-year-old Chesapeake boy charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old girl.
Dominion Virginia Power is seeking the source of leaking radioactivity at its North Anna nuclear power plant after an elevated level of tritium was detected in groundwater.
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A Virginia man charged following a yearlong FBI sting with plotting to blow up a bomb inside the U.S. Capitol in a suicide operation is expected to make a second court appearance.
Legislation to expand the death penalty in Virginia is up for a key vote at the General Assembly.
The U.S. Slavery Museum has filed a reorganization plan that assumes that it can raise at least $900,000 a year and would repay the city of Fredericksburg $15,000 per quarter for back taxes over four years.
Jurors will begin deliberations in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player who's charged with killing his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage.
A Roanoke jury has awarded $4.5 million to a former Norfolk Southern Corp. employee who became disabled after tripping on a cross tie along tracks at the local terminal.
President Barack Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will help break ground for a new national museum telling the history of black art, life and culture as part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Metro says the New York Avenue station is attracting riders faster than any other in the transit system.
A group of Chesapeake residents has filed a $2 billion lawsuit against the owners of Battlefield Golf Club at Centreville and Dominion Virginia Power, claiming that the toxic fly ash on which the course was built...
Chances for a bipartisan accord by Thursday's deadline on a Senate version of the budget are bleak after Senate Republicans dismissed a Democratic proposal to reshuffle Senate committees in exchange for the necessary...
The graying of America is in full swing in the nation's Appalachian region.
Legislation allowing private adoption agencies to discriminate against gay prospective parents is on its way to Virginia's governor, who has said he will sign it.
There's one week left to apply for a mail-in absentee ballot for Virginia's Republican presidential primary on March 6.
U.S. Air Force investigators say extreme fogging in the cockpit caused a fighter plane to leave the runway at a Wisconsin airport after it landed.
Isle of Wight County and the city of Suffolk have been declared as primary disaster areas because of damage caused by excessive heat, storms and excessive rainfall in 2011.
A World War II gun that was once part of the heavy weaponry on the battleship USS Missouri will be making its way to Delaware.
A lime company has agreed to pay a $27,720 civil fine for exceeding air pollution standards at its plant in Giles County.
Appalachian Power says it could take several days to restore electricity to some customers in Virginia who lost power during a winter storm.
Authorities are investigating a fire at Wintergreen that caused about $200,000 worth of damage to several condominiums.
Laminate Technologies is planning to open a manufacturing facility in Henry County.
Scientists with the Virginia Aquarium are planning a necropsy on the body of a 42-foot whale that washed ashore over the weekend on a Norfolk beach.
Repairs will begin in April on an academic building at the Spotsylvania County campus of Germanna Community College that was damaged in an earthquake in August.
Legislation to require drug testing of Virginia welfare recipients is on a legislative committee's docket.
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The nation's largest protestant denomination will remain "Baptist" but it's thinking about whether to stay "Southern" for much longer.
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Hundreds of women stood mute, arm-in-arm, forming a human cordon through which legislators walked before Monday's floor sessions to protest a wave of anti-abortion legislation coursing through the 2012 General Assembly.
A Senate committee has endorsed legislation to allow most local government employees to bring guns to work as long as they keep them locked in their vehicles.
Visitors to the National Mall and to Arlington National Cemetery will have new transportation options in time for the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
A Senate committee has rejected legislation that would have made it illegal to secretly use an electronic device to track a person's movements.
Since Virginia expanded its law to allow more people to seek protective orders against those they say are threatening them, the number of such orders has soared.
The family foundation of a Washington developer is announcing a $1 million gift to help restore the National Mall's grounds and facilities.
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The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library has acquired a document bearing what's considered the earliest known official document bearing Monroe's signature.
Twelve University of Virginia students say they've embarked on a hunger strike to draw attention to their efforts to get school officials to improve employee compensation, including raising the minimum wage to $13 an...
The Norfolk City Council is considering changing its zoning codes to allow residents to sell baked goods they've prepared in their home kitchens.
A winter storm that dumped several inches of snow across parts of the South, causing power outages, slippery roads and numerous accidents during the Presidents Day holiday weekend, is moving out to sea.
As a winter storm has dumped several inches of snow on parts of the South, about a dozen vehicles have been involved in an interstate pileup in northern Tennessee.
A winter storm brought snow to parts of Virginia, and precipitation started to cover roads across western and southwest Virginia as temperatures continued to fall.
Virginia government will spend millions more than Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed for community care of the disabled, bear a greater share of payments into the underfunded state pension system and provide moderate relief for...
A noted New York lawyer and Ponzi scheme victim of Bernie Madoff has signed on to help victims of New Mexico swindler Doug Vaughan.
Asian-Americans have a history in the U.S. military that stretches back through some of the nation's major conflicts.
An event once dedicated to celebrating Radford's black vulture population has expanded to cover more than 200 types of wild birds.
A Richmond group that aims to recognize slavery's historic impact wants to establish a national slavery museum in the city's historic Shockoe Bottom district.
Maryland lawmakers are still waiting for the big payout from the Legislature's gamble more than four years ago on legalized slot machines.
Beware of Virginia legislators boasting of austere budgeting and courageous cuts that prevent state tax increases. Some of their actions the next few weeks could drive up the tax bills you pay on your home or your car.
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Forecasters say wintry weather will be bringing snow to parts of the Southeast this holiday weekend after what has so far been a mild season.
A North Carolina bus dispatcher is facing involuntary manslaughter charges in Virginia for his role in a bus crash that killed four passengers in May.
Former U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode says he's running for president.
Prince William County Police have identified the body of a man found dead at a recycling facility in Manassas.
A parade to honor Iraq War veterans is being planned in Virginia's capital.
A 64-year-old York County man will spend 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography.
Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" are being removed from a Smithsonian exhibit to be conserved.
Norfolk's light-rail line has exceeded expectations for ridership in its first six months of operation.
The Coast Guard is warning mariners about gale-force winds that are forecast for the mid-Atlantic region.
There's a busy day ahead in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend.
Virginia State Police say there were no injuries when a small plane made an emergency landing in a field in Powhatan.
The University of Mary Washington is celebrating the opening of its third campus.
The Federal Highway Administration has given tentative approval to a plan that will bring tolls to Interstate 95 in North Carolina.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is laying off its 61 uniformed police employees on staff and moving to contract workers.
The FBI has named a 17-year veteran of the federal agency to head its Norfolk office.
A Richmond woman will spend more than 14 years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to help illegal aliens get ID cards, driver's licenses and passports.
A Dinwiddie man is being held without bond after authorities say he shot at a Virginia State Police truck responding to a domestic disturbance call.
A state panel has unanimously approved credits for a law enforcement training course that critics have called anti-Muslim.
A Bedford County woman convicted of fatally beating her 77-year-old boyfriend to death with his own cane will spend 15 years in prison.
A Virginia woman faces up to 20 years in prison for mortgage fraud involving a home she formerly owned in West Virginia.
State and local employees who use 401(k)-style contribution plans will have a new investment option later this year.
The Virginia Senate has voted 21-20 to pass attractive tax credits for endowing scholarships for private, nonprofit schools for low-income children.
An Environmental Protection Agency official says West Virginia has made the most improvement on its Chesapeake Bay restoration plans, and Pennsylvania has the most work to do.
A simple mistaken mow job has cost the city of Newport News nearly $1 million.
With little debate, a Senate committee has endorsed a House-passed bill allowing private child placement agencies to deny adoptions for gays or others who offend their religious or moral teaching.
An Ohio teen has pleaded not guilty to killing one man and attempting to kill a second in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme that targeted older and single out-of-work men.
State regulators are proposing a $6,825 civil penalty against a Timberville farm for spilling thousands of gallons of manure into the Shenandoah River.
The widening of Virginia Beach's resort area beach is being put on hold for a year.
A Wythe County farmer has settled a lawsuit that claimed the state took his land and damaged it for a bridge project without compensating him.
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A Richmond man accused of wounding his 101-year-old grandmother during a shootout with his brother is going to prison.
The murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player is set to resume in Charlottesville after it was postponed because one of his attorneys was ill. Twenty-four-year-old George Huguely, of Chevy Chase, Md.,...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is coming to Barksdale Air Force Base to say thank you to the men and women who keep the aircraft used for long-range bombing in top condition.
Millions of people worldwide are held in modern slavery and sex trafficking, and experts say that's more than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The Virginia Department of Forestry says it has recorded its first forestland conservation easement in Northumberland County.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is making a visit to Richmond.
The murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player it set to resume after it was postponed because one of his attorneys was ill.
The Navy says submarine Montpelier is set to return home to Virginia on Friday following a six month deployment.
Federal investigators are looking into why a giant radar blimp tethered high over the Texas-Mexico border in far West Texas crashed this week.
The Navy has identified the four guided-missile destroyers it will base on Spain's coast as part of a ballistic missile defense system.
Power-tool manufacturer Stihl Inc. has purchased the former site of Lilian Vernon's former headquarters in Virginia Beach to make way for further expansion.
Federal and state officials are closing the joint field office set up to coordinate recovery operations following Hurricane Irene, Tropical Strom Lee, and the central Virginia earthquake.
The House version of the state budget due to be unveiled Sunday will include an additional $140 million for public schools.
The second nuclear reactor at TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will not be completed on schedule and will be over budget.
The murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player is taking a one-day break because one of his defense attorneys is ill.
Car parts retailer Advance Auto Parts says its fourth-quarter profit jumped 38 percent as sales improved and expenses fell.
A Virginia Senate committee's Republican majority has advanced a House bill that would eliminate state funding for abortions for low-income women.
More than 1,000 people attended the world premiere of the independent film Deadline, which was made in Nashville and inspired by the true story of how a newspaper helped solve a small-town racially motivated killing.
Celebrity White House gate crasher Tareq Salahi has filed a $50 million lawsuit against his wife, alleging that she had an affair with Journey guitarist Neil Schon as part of a calculated attempt to make money for herself,...
A judge has delayed for two years the case of a Radford boy charged with a weapons violation in the accidental shooting of his sister.
An unused rail extension funded in part by a state grant is going to cost Danville and Pittsyvlania County $450,000 each.
A 2005 state law dealing with police overtime pay has spawned lawsuits against several localities.
Chesapeake Police Chief Kelvin Wright says equipment failure contributed to the death of an officer during a dive-team training exercise.
Several Alexandria streets will be closed as funeral services are held for an Alexandria paramedic who was killed in the line of duty last week.
Visitors to George Washington's Mount Vernon estate will get a new appreciation for the effort it took to put on an 18th-century meal as part of a new exhibition titled Hoecakes and Hospitality: Cooking with Martha...
The father of a woman rescued by Navy SEALS in Somalia last month says his daughter is doing well.
With the prosecution resting, attorneys for a former University of Virginia lacrosse player are returning to a Charlottesville courtroom to defend him against charges he killed his ex-girlfriend.
The leader of a violent, multistate fake-identification ring is due in federal court in Virginia for sentencing.
A Virginia man has been sentenced to prison and fined more than $40,000 for the illegal import and trafficking of sperm whale teeth.
An oral history project that tells the legal story around the civil rights struggle is now available online.
Authorities in Caswell County say a 13-year-old middle school student is dead after rescue personnel found him in a reservoir.
A Senate committee has killed legislation to shield concealed weapons permit information from public view.
The Virginia Department of Transportation has completed all of its construction and maintenance project goals over the last quarter.
President Barack Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will celebrate the groundbreaking for a new national museum showcasing black life, art and history on the National Mall.
The president and CEO of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate is retiring after an 18-year tenure in which he led massive changes to the visitor experience at the popular tourist attraction.
A Virginia Commonwealth University report recommends developing a space research center in Hampton Roads.
A judge overseeing two wrongful death lawsuits filed over the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech is urging all parties to settle out of court.
New projections show that one-way rates on the Dulles Toll Road could triple to $6.75 by 2018 to bring in the necessary funds to pay for extending Metrorail to Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County.
A federal appeals court panel will hear the appeal of a death row inmate who was convicted of hiring someone to kill a woman because he was angry over paying child support to her.
Virginia Tourism Corporation president and CEO Alisa Bailey is leaving to take a job in West Virginia.
Some Winchester residents don't like the idea of building a stadium in a city park for a minor-league baseball team.
The Washington-area Metro transit agency has settled seven of nine lawsuits by families of people killed in a 2009 train crash.
Arena Stage is announcing plans to feature Janis Joplin's music, a reinterpretation of "My Fair Lady" and the Washington premiere of the Broadway play "The Mountaintop" in its 2012-2013 season.
Prosecutors want to make an example of a former security chief at the Upper Big Branch mine who was convicted of lying to investigators after the worst mine disaster in four decades.
The majority owner of the Hagerstown Suns says Major League Baseball and the Washington Nationals have requested improvements to the 80-year-old stadium that the minor-league team calls home.
The president of the foundation that operates James Madison's country estate is resigning after 12 years.
A special grand jury will investigate the case of a Norfolk Community Services Board employee who collected pay and benefits for 12 years without showing up for work.
A Caroline County judge has rejected a lawsuit that challenged a permit for a sand and gravel mine.
An Alexandria coal-burning power plant scheduled in October has been fined about $280,700 for violating air-quality laws.
The investigation of a fatal police shooting in Culpeper will have a special prosecutor.
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The Turkish Embassy is hosting another season of jazz concerts in Washington to help mark the groundbreaking next week of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Physics equipment being built at Old Dominion University is slowly making its way to Jefferson Lab in Newport News.
Colonial Williamsburg's electronic field trip series continues with a new program examining slavery and freedom.
Prince George County is enhancing its emergency operations center thanks to a grant from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
After a week and nearly 40 witnesses, the prosecution is nearing the end of its presentation in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused in his ex-girlfriend's slaying.
The Alexandria Fire Department will go out of service for 48 hours to honor a paramedic killed last week in the line of duty.
President Barack Obama, popular in blue states, had a decidedly red message Tuesday: "Let me start with a quick public service announcement for all the gentlemen out there. Today is Valentine's Day."
Republicans promised voters last year that if they got full control of the General Assembly, they'd pass conservative aims that had failed before under both parties.
The Navy says the medical ship USNS Comfort is expected to move from Maryland to Virginia.
The State Fair of Virginia officials plan to present a proposal next week to allow it to keep The Meadow Event Park in Caroline County and continue operating.
After getting a $1 million state grant earlier, Birdsong Corp. wants another $1 million from Mississippi to expand its peanut processing facility in Aberdeen.
The Virginia Senate has rejected legislation making it easier for public school officials to remove teachers from their jobs, dealing a blow to Gov. Bob McDonnell's education agenda.
Two Somali men who pleaded guilty for their roles in the hijacking of a yacht that left all four Americans on board dead have been sentenced to life in prison for a second time after the judge who sentenced them the first...
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The Virginia Senate has passed legislation to require drug screening of welfare recipients.
The Virginia Senate has passed legislation requiring an ignition interlock for every first-time drunken driver, no matter how high the offender's blood alcohol content registered.
The Virginia Senate has decided that conservation police officers can continue to routinely check whether fishermen and hunters are properly licensed and whether they've exceeded creel or bag limits.
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Virginia's Safety Service Patrol is coming to the Richmond metropolitan area.
A House Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years to passage over passionate objections from Democrats.
Two wrongful death lawsuits filed over the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech will proceed without the university's president as a defendant.
The red suit, flag pin and eyeglasses actress Tina Fey wore for her Sarah Palin impression are going on view at the Newseum in Washington, along with items from journalists and candidates.
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The prosecution is heading back to a Charlottesville courtroom to continue its case against a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend.
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