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(AP) Attorney General Mark Herring has denounced a wide-ranging review of his office by the state legislature’s watchdog agency as a politically motivated witch hunt. The Democratic attorney general blasted the review as “baseless” and an “inquisition.” He also said ...

(AP) Casino backers from Portsmouth to Bristol are joining together to boost the odds of loosening Virginia’s gambling laws. A bipartisan group of lawmakers promoted pro-casino legislation Jan. 14, arguing that three struggling cities spread along Virginia’s southern border urgently ...

FALLS CHURCH (AP) Actress Rose McGowan pleaded no contest Jan. 14 to a misdemeanor drug charge in Loudoun County after cocaine was found in a wallet she left behind at Dulles International Airport two years ago. Court records show she ...

NORFOLK (AP) A jail serving five Virginia cities has settled a lawsuit filed by a former personnel worker alleging she was wrongly forced from her job for how she handled a sexual harassment investigation. Hampton Roads Regional Jail Superintendent David ...

NORTH PRINCE GEORGE (AP) A recently retired Virginia jail superintendent and another official have been convicted of contempt of court for failing to obey a judge’s order to transfer a mentally ill inmate to a hospital. Circuit Judge Lynn S. ...

WILLIAMSBURG (AP) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has been elected to serve as a trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gorsuch was nominated to the high court by President Donald Trump and took his seat in April 2017. He ...

NORFOLK (AP) Federal authorities have accused a former state lawmaker of defrauding a program that awards lucrative government contracts to businesses owned by women and minorities. Former Del. Ron Villanueva of Virginia Beach was arrested Jan 10, The Virginian-Pilot reported. He ...

LEXINGTON (AP) A university and its counselor are being sued for $12 million each by a former student who says they didn’t do enough to stop his suicide attempts. A lawsuit filed Jan. 8 by Kionte Burnette accuses Washington & ...

NORFOLK (AP) A research firm in Virginia says it has gotten a federal license to import high-quality extracts of marijuana for medical research. Sanyal Biotechnology will soon embark on a series of critical studies into treatment of various diseases and ...

(AP) Gov. Ralph Northam called on lawmakers to raise teacher pay and give tax breaks to low-income families during his yearly address to the General Assembly. The Democratic governor also pitched the Republican-controlled legislature on decriminalizing possession of marijuana, extending ...