(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 ...
Read More »Jury: Jogger owes $300K for making U-turn in front of cyclist
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 ...
Read More »AG opinion paves way for governor to revoke McDonnell’s pension
(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, ...
Read More »Judge: Virginia can ban future Confederate license plates
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 ...
Read More »Attorney: Police shot man in head; family to file lawsuit
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 ...
Read More »Bellows to replace Roush as judge in Alexandria murder trial
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 ...
Read More »Unusual terror case going to trial in Va. federal court
(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 — ...
Read More »3 UVa graduates sue Rolling Stone over retracted rape story
(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 ...
Read More »Man pleads guilty to killing Colonial Heights couple in 2011
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 ...
Read More »Survivor of Alexandria shooting testifies at hearing
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 ...
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