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Immigration judges claim they are being muzzled by the Trump administration. A lawsuit filed July 1 in Alexandria against the U.S. Department of Justice marks the latest confrontation between the administrative judges and the federal government. The judges under previous ...

(AP) Work crews wielding a giant crane, harnesses and power tools wrested an imposing statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson from its concrete pedestal along Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday, just hours after the mayor ordered the removal of all ...

(AP) A demonstration against the end of the state moratorium on evictions due to the coronavirus pandemic led to a courthouse window being smashed and chemical irritants released on the crowd by deputies. The incident came after hundreds of demonstrators ...

(AP) A judge has denied an emergency request by lawyers from Virginia’s branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to bar police from using chemical irritants or other devices to disperse protesters. Richmond Circuit Judge Beverly Snukals wrote in a ...

NORFOLK (AP) The leader of a fraud scheme that precipitated the collapse of Bank of the Commonwealth nearly a decade ago will soon be released from federal prison amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, according to court documents. Ed Woodard, ...

(AP) Lawyers from the Virginia branch of the American Civil Liberties Union have filed an emergency request to bar police from using chemical irritants or other devices to disperse protesters. ACLU attorneys told Circuit Judge Beverly W. Snukals on June ...

MARION (AP) A Smyth County man has been charged in federal court in connection with the burning of a cross on the front lawn a Black teenager who had recently organized a civil rights protest. James Brown of Marion, 40, was ...

(AP) Virginia is launching a new program to help people struggling to pay their rent or mortgages amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Ralph Northam announced at a Capitol news conference June 25 that his administration is putting an initial $50 ...

(AP) A Goochland County judge has rejected a challenge to the state’s one-handgun-a-month law scheduled to go into effect on July 1. Attorney General Mark Herring’s office released a statement announcing the decision by Circuit Judge Timothy K. Sanner, who ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) A Northern Virginia couple has been charged with fraud after prosecutors say the two received nearly $1.5 million in federal funds meant for businesses struggling under the coronavirus pandemic. Federal prosecutors in Alexandria say 43-year-old Monica Magdalena Jaworska ...