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Breaking with the president he supported last year, Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Newport News, has joined other leaders who disagree with the president’s reluctance to prosecute overzealous interrogators. The Virginian-Pilot reports Scott and 15 other Democratic members of the House Judiciary ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appears skeptical about the need for federal approval of election changes in Southern states. As The New York Times reports, questions from the justices during oral arguments yesterday suggest the court could strike down “Section 5” ...

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Former Roanoke city councilman Brian Wishneff has been hit with a $3,700 civil fine for allowing the use of a fake name in a newspaper ad attacking an opponent in his re-election campaign last May. In addition to the penalty ...

Tagged with: Elections

Those two happy warriors on the left played to modest crowds in Richmond and Roanoke today. About 300 people turned out at Richmond’s Farmer’s Market this morning to hear former Pres. Bill Clinton tout his former campaign leader Terry McAuliffe’s ...

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The long arm of the local tax collector in Virginia does not extend to a contractor’s business at its out of town offices, the Supreme Court of Virginia held this month in the first appellate case interpreting a 1996 state ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected an appeal by a Christiansburg developer who lost a $10-million lawsuit filed against a critical blogger. The decision was welcomed by free speech advocates who took up the cause of Terry Ellen Carter, ...

A Lynchburg nurse’s aide faces 18 counts of aggravated identity theft in a federal indictment handed down yesterday. Karen Priscilla Jones, 48, is accused of using personal information from residents at nursing homes where she worked to obtain more than ...

A Norfolk grand jury has indicted Kentucky lawyer Erick A. Bowman on charges of stealing from the firm of Kalfus & Nachman where he worked until last year. The Virginian-Pilot reports Bowman has been involved in a legal dispute with ...

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A federal jury in Harrisonburg returned a not guilty verdict for an Ohio license clerk accused of being part of a fraudulent ID ring for illegal immigrants.  Seven other defendants charged in the scheme pleaded guilty, but Nekeia Mack-Fuller claimed ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia could decide to give podiatrists some respect in the arena of medical evidence. Podiatrists, like chiropractors, are not medical doctors, although they are trained and licensed to treat specific conditions.  Unlike chiropractors, however, podiatrists do ...