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NEW YORK (AP) Liberty University is pushing for criminal trespassing charges to be lodged against two journalists who pursued stories about why the evangelical college in Virginia has remained partially open during the coronavirus outbreak. The college, in Lynchburg, is ...

FALLS CHURCH (AP) A judge in Southwest Virginia on April 9 refused to allow a temporary exemption to Gov. Ralph Northam’s stay-at-home order to allow  regular in-person Easter church services. Russell County resident Larry Hughes filed the lawsuit this week. He ...

(AP) When Virginia residents order takeout, they can now tack on a mezcal margarita or springtime sangria. Gov. Ralph Northam announced restaurants and distilleries could sell mixed beverages with takeout or delivery orders starting April 8, news outlets reported. Northam ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) A Maryland man has been arrested after federal prosecutors in Virginia accused him of selling large-scale quantities of narcotics and other drugs over the internet. William Burgamy, 32, of Hanover, Maryland, was arrested April 9 and charged with ...

(AP) Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday that he would delay the June primary elections for Congress by two weeks because of the coronavirus. The governor said at a news conference that he would use his executive authority to move the ...

(AP) Democratic state Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy has filed paperwork to run what could be a history-making campaign to become Virginia’s first woman governor and the first African-American female governor in the United States. Carroll Foy, an attorney and two-term ...

(AP) Gov. Ralph Northam plans to delay some long-sought Democratic priorities until more is known about the pandemic’s affect on the economy, pushing back decisions on whether to give teachers and state workers raises, freeze in-state college tuition, and implement other new ...

(AP) Eight more residents of a Virginia long-term care facility who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the death toll amid the outbreak to 28, the facility’s administrator said April 6. Deaths at the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center ...

NORFOLK (AP) Phone calls to emergency hotlines for domestic violence have spiked in Virginia as people stay at home during the coronavirus epidemic. Calls to hotlines increased by 76% statewide in March, The Virginian-Pilot reported. The numbers are from the Virginia ...

(AP) Three more residents diagnosed with COVID-19 have died at a Richmond-area long-term care facility, the center disclosed April 5, bringing the death toll from one of the nation’s worst coronavirus clusters to 20. The administrator of Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center ...