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(AP) A panel of judges has rejected Republican requests to delay an upcoming special legislative session called to draw new congressional boundaries in Virginia. The panel ruled 2-1 Wednesday that it was not going to extend a Sept. 1 deadline ...

ROANOKE (AP) A jogger who abruptly turned around in front of a cyclist on the Roanoke River Greenway has been ordered to pay $300,000. The Roanoke Times reports a Roanoke City Circuit Court jury last month determined that 62-year-old jogger William ...

(AP) Former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s pension benefits can be taken away based on a law he signed while governor, according to a legal opinion issued Friday by Attorney General Mark Herring. A jury in September found McDonnell and his wife, ...

DANVILLE (AP) Virginia can ban the Confederate flag from specialty license plates the state issues in the future, a federal judge said Friday, but no decision has been announced on whether existing tags can be revoked.U.S. District Jackson L. Kiser ...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP) The attorney for the family of a 23-year-old man killed by police in Newport News said Thursday that the medical examiner’s report indicates he was shot in the back of the head. Kawanza Jamal Beaty was fatally ...

FAIRFAX (AP) Fairfax County Judge Randy I. Bellows has been appointed to hear the trial of alleged Alexandria serial killer Charles Severance. The Washington Post reports that Virginia Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons appointed Bellows Wednesday to replace Judge Jane ...

(AP) Hundreds of terror suspects have been tried in federal courts since the 2001 attacks, but a case unfolding in Virginia differs from most in at least one key respect. Irek Hamidullin was a combatant captured on the battlefield — ...

(AP) Three University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity who were portrayed in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the article’s author, court ...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS (AP) A November sentencing is set for a man who pleaded guilty to killing a Colonial Heights couple in 2011, avoiding the possibility of a death penalty. Media outlets report that 31-year-old Matthew F. Brady pleaded guilty to ...

FAIRFAX (AP) Between sobs, home health worker Jante Dorcas Franco gave a judge a halting, haunting description of surviving an attack that left another woman, music teacher Ruthanne Lodato, shot dead in her home. “I heard something like a loud ...