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The woman known to jurors only as Jane Doe shook her head Jan. 12 when her lawyer asked her a question she knew was coming but clearly dreaded — could she describe the injuries she suffered during five years in ...

Steve Bannon’s lawyers asked to withdraw from his border-wall fraud case, telling a judge on Jan. 12 that he is unwilling to speak with them directly and that they have “irreconcilable” differences about how to proceed. Bannon, a conservative rabble-rouser ...

The Virginia General Assembly kicked off its annual legislative session Jan. 11 with a hefty agenda that includes taxes, abortion and energy policy, but low expectations for how much work will actually get done during an election year. Every legislative ...

A Virginia judge dismissed an argument Jan. 9 that Charlottesville violated an open government law with its 2021 vote to give a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to an African American heritage center that plans to melt it ...

A New Jersey woman who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran that garnered more than $400,000 in online donations has been sentenced to three years in prison on state theft charges. Burlington ...

Slowly but surely, the number of women judges in Virginia courtrooms is on the rise. Nearly a third of Virginia jurists — or 32% — are female, up from 19% in 2008, according to the National Association for Women Judges. ...

The part-time, politically divided Virginia General Assembly is set to convene this week in Richmond for its annual sprint of a legislative session. Members of the Republican-controlled House of Delegates and Democratic-held Senate will meet for at least 30 days ...

A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed by police in rural Virginia, but never arrested, will argue to a jury that he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned and that his vehicle was illegally searched. Video of ...

A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law in Connecticut for six months for improperly giving Jones’ other attorneys in Texas confidential documents, including the medical records of relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook ...

The Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule on Jan. 5 that would ban U.S. employers from imposing noncompete clauses on workers, a sweeping measure that could make it easier for people to switch jobs and deepen competition for labor across ...