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CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) Nearly four months after his arrest in the disappearance of a University of Virginia student, Jesse Matthew Jr. has been indicted on a murder count in the case — but he won’t face the death penalty and still ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) New information is coming in the case of the man linked to two Virginia college students who disappeared and were later found dead. The police chief and the prosecutor in Albemarle County have scheduled a late-morning news conference ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) A 37-year-old woman has died after deputies in northern Virginia used a Taser stun gun on her while she was in custody. Natasha McKenna of Alexandria was taken off life support Sunday, five days after she was stunned ...

(AP) A Virginia lawmaker pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges of fabricating a document that he presented as evidence in a previous case, one that landed him in jail for having an inappropriate relationship with a teenager. In December, ...

(AP) After Morgan Harrington’s body turned up in an Albemarle County hayfield in 2009, authorities were able to obtain crime-scene DNA evidence. What they didn’t have yet was a forensic match to a suspect in Virginia’s groundbreaking databank of felons’ ...

(AP) A Fredericksburg man faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to misappropriating millions of dollars from investors in a proposed office park. Federal prosecutors say 42-year-old James Ashby Moncure pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud and ...

(AP) A former Richmond developer convicted of tax credit fraud is appealing his 20-year prison sentence. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Billy Gene Jefferson filed his petition with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. Jefferson claims the ...

(AP) An overhaul of Virginia’s ethics laws governing public officials is advancing in the General Assembly with some reluctance from a top lawmaker. Leaders in both chambers promised to make ethics reform a top priority last year after the conviction ...

NORFOLK (AP) A sailor wounded in a police shooting is suing the city of Norfolk and the officer. Jasmine Glespie’s lawsuit says the officer used excessive force and was negligent. She’s seeking $5.3 million in damages. WAVY-TV reports that Glespie ...

NEW YORK (AP) “To Kill a Mockingbird” will not be Harper Lee’s only published book after all. Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that “Go Set a Watchman,” a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be ...