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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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called “unprecedented” for a food-poisoning case. The potential life ...

(AP) State Republicans criticized Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s establishment of a commission to study whether Virginia’s abolition of parole in the 1990s has been good for the state. Calling the commission a politically motivated “song and dance,” GOP lawmakers said ...

(AP) A Virginia law hits the books this month that will make it easier for small companies to raise capital. According to the State Corporation Commission, the agency’s new regulations will allow companies to raise up to $2 million through crowdfunding. ...