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(AP) The Supreme Court’s determination that many limits on big-money political contributions violate constitutional free-speech rights has undermined the federal government’s case against former Gov. Bob McDonnell, his lawyers argued in court filings Monday. McDonnell’s lawyers said last month’s McCutcheon ...

A Virginia Beach attorney who pleaded guilty to fraud in the misappropriation of more than $2 million has given up his law license. David R. Flynn consented to revocation of his license April 29, according to a copy of an ...

(AP) A West Virginia doctor convicted of conspiracy and obstruction is getting a new trial. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says a judge should have postponed Josephine Adams’ trial so she could call her husband to testify in ...

CHESAPEAKE (AP) Chesapeake has seen a decline in complaints against police since it expanded the use of body cameras. Statistics released by the Chesapeake Police Department show that that there were 51 complaints in 2013, compared to 81 complaints in ...

(AP) — Virginia is one of several states where Democrats have gone to court to challenge redistricting plans drawn by Republicans seeking to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Marc Elias, an attorney for the National Democratic Redistricting ...

MONTROSS (AP) A jury has ordered a Northern Neck restaurant owner to pay $8 million to the two daughters of his wife, who froze to death on their property in 2010. Media outlets report that the jury deliberated just more ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) An Illinois appellate court has reinstated a decade-old $10.1 billion verdict in a class-action lawsuit against Philip Morris USA that found the nation’s biggest cigarette maker misled customers about “light” and “low tar” designations. The Richmond-based Philip Morris ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) An ex-Marine was sentenced to death Thursday for murdering a fellow service member in 2009, after a federal jury concluded he had been responsible for a series of violent, sexually motivated attacks on women and young girls over ...

NORFOLK (AP) A Virginia Beach attorney has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole more than $2 million from real estate trust accounts. U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente’s office says 44-year-old David R. Flynn pleaded guilty Wednesday to mail fraud ...

CULPEPER (AP) A judge has approved a $300,000 settlement of a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in Culpeper. Media outlets report that the family of Patricia Ann Cook will receive about $170,000 from the settlement. Nearly $130,000 will ...