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HAMPTON (AP) School officials in Hampton have settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a special needs student who says she was assaulted at Kecoughtan High School in 2013. In March 2014, the student’s parents sued the public schools ...

ABINGDON (AP) The former CEO of the Bristol Virginia Utilities Authority has been sentenced to more than two years in prison on fraud conspiracy charges. Multiple media outlets report that 45-year-old Wes Rosenbalm received a 33-month sentence on Thursday in ...

FAIRFAX (AP) A Virginia man accused of killing three Alexandria residents over the span of a decade wanted revenge against what he perceived as the city’s elite after losing a child custody case, prosecutors said Thursday. Opening statements and testimony ...

(AP) President Barack Obama has nominated new U.S. attorneys for Virginia’s eastern and western districts. Eastern District nominee Dana J. Boente has served as acting U.S. attorney since 2013. He has been with the office since 2000 and also was ...

(AP) A Kentucky pharmacy has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle allegations that it solicited and received kickbacks from a manufacturer in exchange for promoting a drug with nursing home patients, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. The settlement with Louisville-based ...

(AP) Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell is asking an appeals court to suspend her case while the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to review her husband’s public corruption convictions. Maureen McDonnell’s attorneys filed a motion Wednesday with the 4th ...

NEW YORK (AP) Lumber Liquidators says it will pay $10 million and plead guilty to five violations of environmental law, including one felony charge, to end a federal investigation into its importation of illegally sourced wood products. The Justice Department ...

DINWIDDIE (AP) A videotape released Tuesday shows a sheriff in a rural Virginia county using a racial slur during the interrogation of a slaying suspect. The sheriff defended the use of the offensive word as a law enforcement interrogation technique, ...

McLEAN (AP) A former campaign treasurer for Virginia Senate Minority Leader Richard Saslaw was charged Monday with embezzling more than $650,000 in campaign funds. Court records show that Linda Diane Wallis, 51, of Fairfax, is scheduled to enter a guilty ...

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend. The justices on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that upheld the conviction of George ...