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The U.S. Postal Service will close its Roanoke mail-processing facility, a union representative said tonight.More >>

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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,...More >>

A Frederick County judge is affirming a decision blocking a key component of a proposed multistate power line.More >>

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...More >>

The Virginia Zoo's squirrel monkey family has a new member.More >>

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.More >>

Charlottesville isn't going to allow an urban hunt to control the city's deer population, at least for the immediate future.More >>

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.More >>

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.More >>

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.More >>

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.More >>

Metro says the New York Avenue station is attracting riders faster than any other in the transit system.More >>

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...More >>

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.More >>

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.More >>

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.More >>

Appalachian Power says it could take several days to restore electricity to some customers in Virginia who lost power during a winter storm.More >>

Laminate Technologies is planning to open a manufacturing facility in Henry County.More >>

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.More >>

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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.More >>

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.More >>

Visitors to the National Mall and to Arlington National Cemetery will have new transportation options in time for the National Cherry Blossom Festival.More >>

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.More >>

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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...More >>

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.More >>

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.More >>

A noted New York lawyer and Ponzi scheme victim of Bernie Madoff has signed on to help victims of New Mexico swindler Doug Vaughan.More >>

An event once dedicated to celebrating Radford's black vulture population has expanded to cover more than 200 types of wild birds.More >>

Maryland lawmakers are still waiting for the big payout from the Legislature's gamble more than four years ago on legalized slot machines.More >>

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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.More >>

Prince William County Police have identified the body of a man found dead at a recycling facility in Manassas.More >>

A 64-year-old York County man will spend 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography.More >>

Norfolk's light-rail line has exceeded expectations for ridership in its first six months of operation.More >>

There's a busy day ahead in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend.More >>

The University of Mary Washington is celebrating the opening of its third campus.More >>

The Tennessee Valley Authority is laying off its 61 uniformed police employees on staff and moving to contract workers.More >>

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.More >>

A state panel has unanimously approved credits for a law enforcement training course that critics have called anti-Muslim.More >>

A Virginia woman faces up to 20 years in prison for mortgage fraud involving a home she formerly owned in West Virginia.More >>

The Virginia Senate has voted 21-20 to pass attractive tax credits for endowing scholarships for private, nonprofit schools for low-income children.More >>

A simple mistaken mow job has cost the city of Newport News nearly $1 million.More >>

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.More >>

The widening of Virginia Beach's resort area beach is being put on hold for a year.More >>

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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.,...More >>

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.More >>

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is making a visit to Richmond.More >>

The Navy says submarine Montpelier is set to return home to Virginia on Friday following a six month deployment.More >>

The Navy has identified the four guided-missile destroyers it will base on Spain's coast as part of a ballistic missile defense system.More >>

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.More >>

The second nuclear reactor at TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will not be completed on schedule and will be over budget.More >>

Car parts retailer Advance Auto Parts says its fourth-quarter profit jumped 38 percent as sales improved and expenses fell.More >>

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.More >>

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.More >>

A 2005 state law dealing with police overtime pay has spawned lawsuits against several localities.More >>

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.More >>

The father of a woman rescued by Navy SEALS in Somalia last month says his daughter is doing well.More >>

The leader of a violent, multistate fake-identification ring is due in federal court in Virginia for sentencing.More >>

An oral history project that tells the legal story around the civil rights struggle is now available online.More >>

A Senate committee has killed legislation to shield concealed weapons permit information from public view.More >>

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.More >>

A Virginia Commonwealth University report recommends developing a space research center in Hampton Roads.More >>

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.More >>

Virginia Tourism Corporation president and CEO Alisa Bailey is leaving to take a job in West Virginia.More >>

The Washington-area Metro transit agency has settled seven of nine lawsuits by families of people killed in a 2009 train crash.More >>

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.More >>

The president of the foundation that operates James Madison's country estate is resigning after 12 years.More >>

A Caroline County judge has rejected a lawsuit that challenged a permit for a sand and gravel mine.More >>

The investigation of a fatal police shooting in Culpeper will have a special prosecutor.More >>

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.More >>

Colonial Williamsburg's electronic field trip series continues with a new program examining slavery and freedom.More >>

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.More >>

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."More >>

The Navy says the medical ship USNS Comfort is expected to move from Maryland to Virginia.More >>

After getting a $1 million state grant earlier, Birdsong Corp. wants another $1 million from Mississippi to expand its peanut processing facility in Aberdeen.More >>

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...More >>

The Virginia Senate has passed legislation to require drug screening of welfare recipients.More >>

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.More >>

Virginia's Safety Service Patrol is coming to the Richmond metropolitan area.More >>

Two wrongful death lawsuits filed over the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech will proceed without the university's president as a defendant.More >>

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