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ROANOKE (AP) — A lawsuit against Norfolk Southern that was headed to trial Monday has been settled with the families of two teenagers who were struck and killed by a train in Montgomery County. An attorney for Norfolk Southern told ...

(AP) — The Supreme Court of Virginia has revived White House gate crasher Tareq Salahi’s $50 million lawsuit against a company he and his ex-wife hired to promote their reality television careers. Salahi claims DD Entertainment LLC encouraged Michaele Salahi ...

(AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Chesterfield County man who was detained in a psychiatric facility after posting anti-government messages on Facebook. Brandon Raub’s lawsuit blamed county mental health worker Michael Campbell for his ...

RADFORD (AP) — A Radford man accused of bilking investors has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy says 63-year-old Charles G. Shomo entered guilty pleas on Thursday to mail fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. ...

NORFOLK (AP) — Former Bank of the Commonwealth president and CEO Edward J. Woodard Jr. and federal regulators have settled a lawsuit stemming from the bank’s collapse. As part of the settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 70-year-old ...

(AP) — The Court of Appeals of Virginia has reversed a murder conviction stemming from a shooting outside a Surry County nightclub. A divided three-judge panel said Tuesday that Ronald Taft Davis III’s acquittal on a misdemeanor charge of reckless ...

VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) — Elaine Kubiak finds it impossible to reconcile the social-climbing, bullying and bizarre-acting former first lady of Virginia being portrayed in federal court papers and the media with the woman she’s known for two decades. The Maureen ...

NORFOLK (AP) — The Norfolk Circuit Court clerk said Monday that he plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling declaring the state’s ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional. Virginia’s voter-approved ban on gay marriages was overturned by U.S. District Judge Arenda ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will not block Virginia from retrying an accused drug dealer, whose earlier capital murder conviction was set aside because of misconduct by prosecutors. The justices on Monday rejected an appeal by Justin Wolfe, ...

HARRISONBURG (AP) — The town of Elkton is asking a judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman who disappeared in 2003. A hearing on the town’s motion is set for Thursday in Rockingham ...