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(AP) — Four former Iraqi detainees who claim they were tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison are asking a federal appeals court to reinstate their lawsuit against a military contractor. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

ROANOKE (AP) — A contractor that provides security at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant is being sued by an employee who alleges co-workers racially harassed him. John McKinney’s lawsuit seeks an injunction against G4S Government Solutions, Inc. The lawsuit alleges ...

STAFFORD (AP) — The trial of an FBI special agent charged with his wife’s slaying has ended in a mistrial. The Free Lance-Star reports that a judge declared a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Arthur ...

(AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated a whistleblower’s claims that student loan companies in Pennsylvania and Vermont cheated the U.S. government. Former Education Department employee Jon Oberg claims the companies violated the False Claims Act by overstating the ...

(AP) — A clerical error by former Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s administration has essentially voided about 60 gubernatorial appointments made by McDonnell to various state boards and commissions, according to Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office. A spokeswoman for the new ...

(AP) — DNA testing clears two men sentenced to long prison terms for a 1996 rape in Norfolk, the Innocence Project argues in a filing with the Supreme Court of Virginia . One of the men, Percell F. Warren, died ...

(AP) — Gov. Terry McAuliffe has granted a medical clemency for an inmate who has terminal cancer. Media outlets reported that 35-year-old Jason Scott Davis’ parents sought the clemency so that he can die at home. His mother, Brenda Kirby, ...

(AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a West Virginia doctor’s health care fraud and tax evasion convictions. A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that Barton Joseph Adams waived his right ...

(AP) — Federal prosecutors say former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is not entitled to more details on what they say he did wrong in his public corruption case. In papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court, the government urged a ...

NORFOLK (AP) — A federal judge is allowing a class action suit by Dollar Tree Inc. workers to move forward. The Chesapeake-based company had asked a U.S. District judge in Norfolk to break up the group of about 4,000 hourly ...