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FALLS CHURCH (AP) Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of U.S. Supreme Court justices living in the county after some have faced protests outside their homes. Youngkin, ...

(AP) A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit twelve women brought last summer against Liberty University, accusing the Christian institution of fostering an unsafe environment on its Virginia campus and mishandling cases of sexual assault and harassment. A notice of ...

WILSONS (AP) Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their ...

(AP) Virginia Capitol Police are investigating after a bullet pierced a window at the office of the Attorney General in downtown Richmond. Police said officers were called to the Barbara Johns Building on May 9 and found a small round ...

(AP) Richmond officials are seeking a court order to move the only remaining Confederate monument owned by the city. The Richmond City Council voted unanimously May 9 to direct the city administration to grant the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. ...

(AP) A Richmond man has pleaded guilty to federal bank robbery charges in a closely watched case that tested the constitutionality of broad search warrants that use Google location history to find people who were near crime scenes. The Richmond ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) A former commissioner of revenue for a Virginia county has pleaded guilty to attempted witness tampering, and his son pleaded guilty to a related charge of heroin distribution, prosecutors said. Larry Vernon Snow, 73, pleaded guilty on May ...

NORFOLK (AP) A federal grand jury indicted a Virginia man May 5 on charges of possessing and selling unregistered machine guns, a federal prosecutor said. According to the indictment, Patrick Tate Adamiak, 28, of Virginia Beach was obtaining unregistered machine ...

(AP) A state appeals court on May 3 overturned the conviction of a Virginia mother who was found guilty of assault and battery for striking her 12-year-old twins with a belt to discipline them. WTOP-FM reports that a three-judge Court ...

NORFOLK (AP) A Virginia woman has pleaded guilty to failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service $2.7 million in payroll taxes that she deducted from her employees’ paychecks, a federal prosecutor said. Court documents show that from at least 2011 ...