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(AP) The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Thursday that local approval is required for a key element of a proposed high-rise electrical transmission line over a historic section of the James River. Opponents celebrated the decision, but stopped short of ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) Deaf inmates should be given regular access to sign language interpreters when needed, lawyers argued Thursday in a lawsuit over one inmate’s six-week stay at a county jail. Ethiopian immigrant Abreham Zemedagegehu sued the Arlington County sheriff and ...

(AP) Virginia lawmakers delayed a vote on ethics reform legislation Wednesday over concerns the measure could be interpreted as putting a $100 lifetime limit on gifts to public officials from lobbyists and others who have financial interests with the state. ...

BEDFORD (AP) A judge refused to block the closing of Sweet Briar College on Wednesday, but issued an injunction to limit the small women’s college from spending any charitable contributions for that purpose. While Bedford Circuit Judge James W. Updike Jr. ...

NORFOLK (AP) A special grand jury will investigate the fatal shooting of a man by Norfolk police in 2014. Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Greg Underwood’s office said a judge on Wednesday granted Underwood’s motion to impanel a special grand jury to ...

(AP) Virginia state lawmakers are returning to the Capitol to vote on Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s vetoes and proposed amendments. The GOP-controlled General Assembly reconvenes for its so-called veto session Wednesday. Among the legislation lawmakers will consider are tighter gift ...

LEXINGTON (AP) Virginia Military Institute has been removed from a list of colleges under federal investigation for their handling of sexual assault reports. VMI spokesman Stewart D. MacInnis told The Washington Post that an investigation by the U.S. Department of ...

(AP)  Former Gov. Bob McDonnell made his final written plea to a federal appeals court Wednesday, arguing that the favors he did for a wealthy businessman were routine courtesies and not part of a bribery scheme. The onetime rising Republican ...

(AP) The cremated remains of Grammy-nominated thrash metal band GWAR’s founder are at the center of a legal dispute between his father and his surviving bandmates. William Brockie says in a lawsuit that members of GWAR have stolen his son ...

(AP) Richmond’s chief prosecutor joined other lawyers Wednesday in urging Gov. Terry McAuliffe to pardon a man who has spent 29 years in prison for an attempted rape that they say he didn’t commit. Michael McAlister’s prison term ended in ...